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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 2350063, member: 27"] I agree that neighborhood is a mess and has potential for a major turnaround. I hope the Inner Harbor development is a major success and somehow jumps over I81 and helps. I hated leaving the stadium where it is when the new one was built because it is in an area with a giant surrounding buffer that ensures that it will have no ability to spun more development or growth nearby. The only buildings reasonably close are all used by the Regional Market and are put to good use in that capacity. If it was built on the other side of the railroad tracks from the Armory, or down by where the old Midtown Plaza was, or on the near West Side; any blighted area close to downtown with buildings that could be renovated and put to good use, there could have been some real economic benefit from making that huge investment. And that growing core of people who live and work downtown would have another reason to stay, attendance would have surely increased, and we could have had some cool views from the stadium of downtown, Piety Hill, etc. Here is what is likely to happen: Attendance will improve somewhat with the Mets as the new owners, but they will not invest in the stadium or team in any major way, and the first chance they got to move elsewhere, where a bigger city offers to build a nice new stadium to entice them, they will leave Syracuse and our stadium will stand empty for 20 years, rotting away. Then, if we are lucky, we will make a play for a AA team, and if we are lucky, will steal one from a smaller city in exchange for the promise of building a new stadium. If we are lucky, it will be built downtown. By that point, even the most ignorant, racist, pork belly protecting idiot politicians involved might see it belongs there. [/QUOTE]

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