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re: $207 million downtown Knoxville baseball development proposed for for BaseVOLS/AA Smokies
Posted on 8/11/20 at 2:33 pm to TimeOutdoors
Posted on 8/11/20 at 2:33 pm to TimeOutdoors
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Now take a look at the number of units/seats and the number of parking spaces. The old "there are already parking spaces downtown argument".
It's like a 7k seat stadium and a couple of apartment complexes. A lot of apartment complexes and businesses build parking lots underneath the complexes. Look at Nashville, for instance. They keep building massive developments that don't include detached parking lots. Because almost every high rise building in Nashville has a parking deck on the first several levels of the building or underneath the building.
Not to mention, it's an artists rendering
Do you really think they would build a massive multi-use development and not have parking? 
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Posted on 8/11/20 at 2:34 pm to volfan30
It would be much better to see a real concept instead of this animated sketch.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 2:37 pm to volfan30
Not very good timing for a development like this.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 2:40 pm to GetCocky11
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Not very good timing for a development like this.
Meh things will be back to normal by the time development would start anyways
Posted on 8/11/20 at 2:52 pm to TheCheshireHog
quote:Is there some sarcasm in this post, or is it dementia? 2015 ring a bell? It should. Missouri State is the secondary tenant in their park, and it's a constant issue come post-season.quote:Missouri State does it with the AA Springfield Cardinals. I’ve never seen any issues on the outside with the arrangement.
Seems hard for a professional team and a college team to share a stadium, long series, tournaments, rain outs, and practice all seem to be issues with this concept.
Now, if you get the college team as the primary tenant (see Nebraska), it's not a problem and can be a mutually beneficial arrangement.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 3:00 pm to volfan30
Knoxville keeps getting better and better
Posted on 8/11/20 at 3:11 pm to TheCheshireHog
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Missouri State does it with the AA Springfield Cardinals. I’ve never seen any issues on the outside with the arrangement.
Makes them lose hosting regionals/super regionals
Posted on 8/11/20 at 3:24 pm to volfan30
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Boyd is estimating a total cost of the ballpark as $65 million, but also includes a 20 percent cost contingency for overruns, pushing the total cost to potentially $78 million.
Wish I could hit my investors with a "13 million dollar cost contingency". I think they'd probably lose confidence in my abilities immediately. This much be tax payer money.
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