Love the design, really unique for MLB. What is up with the towers/smokestacks? Distracts from the beautiful mountain view!
The site is a vacant lot in the Rocky Mountain Power District, which includes that big power station. A lot of stadium proposals in the past few years have tried to incorporate local “landmarks” like this as a point of pride (see also: the shipping container crane at Howard Terminal). I think a power generation station stretches the definition of landmark, but in a state with the motto “Industry,” I suppose it’s appropriate. Plus I think the scale of the towers is quite exaggerated in that rendering.
Will Oakland Athletics temporarily play in South Jordan, Utah before the Clark County, NV stadium is built?
The Rays should move to Salt Lake City, baseball in Florida is a bust outside of Spring Training. Their deal to build in St. Petersburg has fallen apart, it’s an opportunity to move. The Marlins built a huge new indoor stadium, in the largest city in Florida, and they’re a bust too when it comes to attendance.
Utah has the right climate for outdoor baseball, move the Rays to Utah.
Who’s going to pay for a new baseball stadium in Utah?
Utahns are highly educated and financially savvy. They will resist giving a handout to the billionaire owner of the baseball team. And no oligarch wants to pay for his own stadium.
Floridians tend to be dumb and politically disengaged. They do not have any problems with corporate welfare. Florida taxpayers will gladly subsidize the new stadium for the Rays. It might take a little while, but it will happen.
It’s a race to the bottom. And Florida is the bottom.
The Rays are not going anywhere.
Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Nashville, Charlotte or Raleigh should get teams.
Funny you should ask!
- Utah state senator Scott Sandall, figuring one MLB stadium with no team to play in it and no way to pay for it isn’t enough for a growing state, introduced a bill to let Salt Lake City’s stadium district build multiple stadiums as small as 18,000 seats for any sport, “to be proactive, just for the future,” not because he has any particular sports teams in mind that could use an 18,000-seat stadium or anything.
I highly recommend following Field of Schemes for all “who is actually going to pay for these stadiums”-related inquiries.
And don’t forget Portland, Vancouver, Montreal, Columbus, New Orleans, San Antonio, Indianapolis, Nashville, Memphis, Jacksonville and Oklahoma City.
There are currently thirty MLB teams, but there should be at least fifty.
And each of them should play in a retractable roof stadium paid with funding earmarked for elementary education.