{"id":192391,"date":"2026-05-14T16:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192391\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:22:26","slug":"letter-reading-should-rethink-stadium-arrangement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192391\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Reading should rethink stadium arrangement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city and the owners of the Reading Fightin Phils have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/05\/06\/reading-council-approves-purchase-of-centre-avenue-property-near-firstenergy-stadium\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">come to a deal<\/a> on obtaining a building near FirstEnergy Stadium. The team has new ownership, and there should be a new lease in which Reading gets more from the naming rights of things added to the stadium. The building the team and city just acquired will probably need a name.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe a better idea would be for the city to put the stadium up for sale. With the recent additions the stadium is worth a lot more money than in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Dillon<\/p>\n<p>Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city and the owners of the Reading Fightin Phils have come to a deal on obtaining a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,5037,1559,28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-192391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}