more discussion on the stadium
Two lively discussions are currently taking place over at the Church Hill People’s News. A recent snapshot poll on this site, taken across the end of the 1st week of February, has 75% of the...
View Articleshockoe center community support meeting
The first community support meeting for Shockoe Center was held tonight at GlobeHopper. With approximately 30-40 people in attendance for the meeting, a clear majority seemed to be in support of the...
View Articlea team, finally?
RTD has the full story on a team the Richmond Baseball Group is in talks to buy. A Richmond group hopes to buy a franchise that belongs to the Class AA Eastern League, the Connecticut Defenders, and...
View ArticleStyle Weekly: not a fan of baseball in the bottom
For those keeping score, Style Weekly’s cleverly-named cover story this week strongly criticizes the downtown stadium proposal. With the residents of Richmond divided on the issue, Style has clearly...
View Articlerecap of last week’s community support meetings
Stadium representatives have released the following points regarding Shockoe Center. The points highlight what was discussed at the Community Support Meetings held last week. “Supporters of Baseball in...
View Articlea second opinion on the Shockoe Center proposal
The RTD is reporting that the City is spending $100 k to study to the financial feasibility of the stadium proposal. A spokesperson for Highwood Properties calls the independent assessment “greatly...
View Article“we should embrace the Shockoe Center proposal”
As we wait for the latest economic study on the Shockoe Center and stadium proposal, the debate keeps on in our neighborhood. The RTD published a column from a Shockoe Bottom business owner who...
View Article1965 flashback
No, this isn’t a cool picture of the neighborhood way back when. The RTD has a story on Richmond’s first year without a baseball team since 1965. O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? In 1965, that...
View Articlebaseball debate tonight
Tonight at 7 p.m. a debate and public comment period regarding baseball in the Bottom vs. baseball on the Boulevard will be held at the Richmond Times Dispatch headquarters To catch up on the latest...
View Articledrumroll, please
Mayor Jones plans to release the executive summary of a study on the proposed Shockoe Stadium today. The group performing the study hasalready indicated support for a ballpark in Shockoe, but this...
View Articleshockoe center is dead
Highwoods Properties annouced today that they are dropping the Shockoe Center project which also included a development along Boulevard, blaming the major Boulevard vs Shockoe stadium debate and a lack...
View Articlebaseball for Manchester?
Now that the plan for a Shockoe stadium is officially dead, what will happen? Reynolds Packaging Group is suggesting that the city take a look at Manchester, specifically the area between the...
View Articleanother idea for shockoe
Style Weekly brings forward another idea for the parking lots of Shockoe Bottom, this time from former mayoral candidate Lawrence Williams. Williams envisions a four-square-block complex in the Bottom...
View ArticleBallpark discussion comes back to Shockoe
In the on going saga about the baseball stadium everything old is new again and we’re back to discussing putting a stadium in Shockoe Bottom. The last time a baseball stadium was seriously in the mix...
View ArticlePoll shows people want the Squirrels Stadium to stay put
From RTD In a regional poll sponsored by the Richmond Times-Dispatch, two-thirds of the participants prefer that a new stadium, if built at all, be located on the Boulevard, where minor league baseball...
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