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Yeah, though honestly it always seems like such a pain to get to Flushing - but hey they beat the Braves yesterday
The 7 train stops right at the stadium, and runs express from Midtown - doesn't get much better than that for rail access. No less convenient than the BSL Pattison stop, for example. A little further ride than to Yankees Stadium (depending on where you're coming from), but you can't hold NYC being a big city against the Mets. Especially when there's so much other better stuff to hold against them.
Safeco Field in Seattle is served by the new Link Light Rail along with the Sounder commuter train and the longer distance Amtrak trains at Union Station right around the corner. Some people take the train from Portland directly to the station just for the game.
Plus AT&T Park in San Francisco is just a block or so away from the CalTrain station and Petco Park in San Diego is served by the Trolley Light Rail.
Can you actually take commuter rail to games at Target? They run special trains to and from the stadium?
Yes. The Northstar commuter line started last year.
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The silver bullet, i had to look twice, it looked fake at first glance, pretty cool though
I agree. Wrapping the trains with company advertisements is pretty cool. Most the MPLS light rail trains are usually wrapped with some form of advertisement.
Pittsburgh's North Shore Connector will connect the Golden Triange with the North Shore starting in 2012. The new line tunneled under the Allegheny river to connect Gateway Center with PNC Park, Heinz Field, Rivers Casino, and the other North Shore attractions. The new stations are located @ PNC Park and the Heinz Field station is connected directly to the stadium.
The new taxpayer-funded stadiums in Cincinnati did nothing to the neighboring areas. Actually, they caused other establishments to be torn down - like the Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant. Stupid.
This is completely ridiculous, inaccurate, incorrect and a likely a purposeful misrepresentation of facts.
Great American Ball Park has spurred the development of an entirely new downtown neighborhood known as The Banks, which this summer is starting to open its doors. The first tenant to open - The Holy Grail - is absolutely smam-packed before and after every Reds game and has already announced expansion plans, and a slate of new-to-the-region tenants are slated to open this fall. Prior to the new ballpark, the Cincinnati riverfront was a mostly empty, ignored stretch of parking lots, produce warehouses and criss-crossing train tracks. In its place are now hundreds of new residential units that sold out long before they were move-in ready, new restaurants/bars/stores that are lining up to open later this year, and a series of completely new urban parks that are already winning awards and a new hotel development. Honestly, if this isn't development spurred by the ballpark, I don't know what is:
So far in my experience the ballparks in Cleveland, Minneapolis, Chicago (Wrigley Field only), Baltimore, Denver, and San Diego seemed to have contributed to the vibrancy in the surrounding neighborhoods.
I was only 2 when they opened Progressive field(Jacobs Field) in Cleveland. From all the stories I've heard about the early years of the park it definetly helped the surrounding area. I've been to several games there and there is alot of bars and restaurants very close to the park and they always seemed to get good business from what I saw. And these games were in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 when the attedence wasn't anywhere near as good as it was in the 90s and early part of the last decade.
This is very cool. Football stadiums are far more destructive to urban fabric because they are dead more often and demand huge footprints for both the stadium and parking needs, but the location of Browns stadium is sort of isolated from downtown. It would be neat if they built up the area around the stadium. I think there would actually be more demand to live near a football stadium than a baseball stadium because the football stadium is only used 10-12 times a year. That's only 10-12 days where you would have to fight with people over parking, closed roads etc to get to your condo.
Lucas Oil is used quite a bit throughout the year
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