I keep warning you and warning you, but no one pays attention. That new ball park is already a whole year old and aging fast. We'd better dump it and build a new one before the maintenance costs start eating us alive:
The city will likely spend nearly a third of this year's long-term maintenance revenue on improvements to Parkview Field less than a year after the downtown ballpark opened.
The Parkview Field Advisory Board on Monday approved spending about $90,000 on the ballpark but balked at a request to upgrade its convention center until it could get more information.
TinCaps owner Jason Freier presented the board with a list of possible improvements to the stadium to be paid by the city, plus a list of things the team would be doing to improve the park. The most expensive city request was to seal the concourse concrete for $74,000 to improve its look, feel and longevity.
I could get Mayor Henry to explain the economics of it for you, but you probably already know the essential reasoning. We have to do it now, no matter how expensive it seems, because the longer we wait, the more it will cost. Come on,
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Leo:
Bet'cha it would make more sense (economically-speaking) to rename the field to what I said it was going to be all along...
COSTAPLENTY SQUARE!
When it comes to longevity, the city is LONG on words...AND our money.
One we've got too much of one, and never enough of the other.
That ticking clock wouldn't have a CUCKOO in it, would it?
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