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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 2734788, member: 27"]
What businesses are there in that area that could affected?  What businesses are there period?

Maybe the diner gets a little bump on game day?  I think it is closed then anyway.

The politicians involved chose the easy way, not the right way.  There is no question it would have been harder to get the land to put a ballpark downtown, even in Syracuse in the early 1990s, when so much of the area  close to Salina St was falling apart and awful, with little or no taxes being paid and no active ownership in so many places.

But every other city that built a stadium then and since then seems to have found a way to identify a bad area near downtown that could really benefit by the addition of a ballpark and made it happen.

It is bad enough that the park is in an empty corner of the city where there is little or no hope of ever spurring more development and growth by investing in the ballpark.  Then the powers that be went with an awful design that was basically a rebuild of the crappy facility we had that was built in the 1930s.

I believe the original ballpark cost about $28 million.  Now we, the taxpayers, are going to pay another $28 million to try and fix the awful original design.  Best case scenario, the renovated park will be a little better but it will still be in a bad location where you have to drive somewhere if you want to have a drink or a meal before or after the game.  Will there be an opportunity for the public to comment on the plans for the renovations?  I know I don't like what is being planned.  Why hasn't there been a dialogue with the fans and the taxpayers to understand what we want?  This is just business as usual.  Politicians spending huge amounts of money with no accountability.  It wouldn't be bad if they had insight and thoughtfulness but they don't.  Can we ever learn from our mistakes?
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