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Monday, January 6, 2014

Shockoe Ballpark Critics Offer a Different Plan

City of Richmond
“Opponents of the plan to build a baseball stadium in Shockoe Bottom have released an alternative proposal they say would allow development to occur while substituting a memorial park for a stadium. The plan, produced by a group of opponents, is designed to allow for the addition of a hotel, grocery store, office space, apartments and a parking deck while ‘allowing the city to avoid the embarrassment of desecrating a site increasingly recognized as completely inappropriate for a ballpark.’”
~Writes Graham Moodmaw of the Richmond Times Dispatch


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