Bigger issues in S.A.
When I read that the Soap Factory Apartments, an affordable living place, would be torn down for a new baseball stadium for the San Antonio Missions, I was stunned and angered.
Why are the Missions moving to choice property downtown at an estimated cost of $160 million?
Our beautiful downtown is destined to have a baseball stadium on one side with a basketball arena crowding the other side.
The city and Bexar County’s contribution to the ballpark is $126 million. The city also committed to $489 million for a new Spurs arena.
It’s finally time for a third party to do an in-depth cost-benefit analysis of all this.
Rather than spend $489 million on a new Spurs arena and $126 million on a new Missions stadium, we need to address other much more serious community issues.
Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Gene Townsend
The article on the proposed new baseball stadium for the Missions makes it all sound beautiful, but it states the stadium “would have about 4,500 fixed seats and room for 7,500 people altogether, compared with 6,200 fixed seats and a berm that can seat around 3,000 people at the team’s current digs.”
That’s a loss of 1,700 seats. How is fewer better?
Won’t the league, soon after the stadium is built, complain there is not enough seating and either move or lower the class of baseball that can be played there?
Can someone explain why this plan is better, beyond it being more modern and surrounded by planned apartments with amenities?
With all of the new builds, the stadium will be landlocked, and it sounds like we’ll be stuck.
I read the article about plenty of parking downtown.
There’s a good reason there’s plenty. Local residents don’t go downtown because parking rates are so high.
I recently decided to eat lunch at an old restaurant I’ve eaten at for years. My lunch cost $12; parking for 55 minutes was $20.
Until the city does something about this, nothing is going to change.