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Per baseball commissioners recent comments,MLB is looking to expand into two cities, Charlotte being named one if them. Others were Portland, Nashville, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Mexico City, and a couple others I can’t recall at the moment. One drawback mentioned for CLT was the recent expansion of the minor league ballpark downtown. This will be quite a competition I think! What do you think about Charlotte’s chances?
Per baseball commissioners recent comments,MLB is looking to expand into two cities, Charlotte being named one if them. Others were Portland, Nashville, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Mexico City, and a couple others I can’t recall at the moment. One drawback mentioned for CLT was the recent expansion of the minor league ballpark downtown. This will be quite a competition I think! What do you think about Charlotte’s chances?
Per baseball commissioners recent comments,MLB is looking to expand into two cities, Charlotte being named one if them. Others were Portland, Nashville, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Mexico City, and a couple others I can’t recall at the moment. One drawback mentioned for CLT was the recent expansion of the minor league ballpark downtown. This will be quite a competition I think! What do you think about Charlotte’s chances?
Pretty much zero. Vegas and Mexico City will almost certainly be the sites.
Charlotte is an obvious choice given its success in other sports and relative separation from other, previously-developed markets.
Finding a second franchise is trickier. Taken together, Nashville, Memphis and Birmingham have the potential, but each city will seek to dominate. Ditto for a "pairing" of Las Vegas and Salt Lake City -- the latter of which I view as attractive as more people flee the trends currently eroding Southern California. Portland is in its own orbit, and not really a "baseball town".
My thoughts exactly. A new domed stadium could host the Panthers, MLB, and help Charlotte host a Superbowl.
I can all but guarantee that an MLB franchise would demand a baseball-only facility. Multi-sport stadia (while smart from a land use standpoint) are out of fashion.
I think Charlotte rushed in getting a stadium built downtown for the Knights. They should have listened to Reese or at the very least tried to build on a site where the AAA stadium could be expanded to a major league ballpark. What a waste of taxpayer money if they abandon the new BB&T Ballpark.
Montreal and Vancouver Canada were the other two cities named.
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