Maintaining Evansville's Roberts Stadium on standby until officials decide what to do with it could cost the city as much as $300,000 a year.
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A new $127 million downtown arena is scheduled to open in November, which will take sporting events and concerts from the 55-year-old Roberts Stadium.
Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel had supported a plan to demolish Roberts Stadium and develop the site as a baseball and softball complex, but that proposal was dropped amid public resistance.
Evansville needs to follow our example and just tear the old place down, as quickly as possible. It's not just that keeping it would be costly. It would be a constant reminder to taxpayers of how easy officials find it to throw their money around.
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