Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Another way to do baseball stadiums and urban revitalization

Google Image Result for http--redbirdfever.mlblogs.com-photos-my_trip_to_busch-Image of St. Louis' Busch Stadium from the Redbird Fever blog.

The Detroit News reports on St. Louis' efforts to revitalize, in the article "St. Louis' revival a hit: Detroit could learn some lessons, experts say." Now, St. Louis isn't perfect. This blog has discussed the demolition of the Century Building as a blot on historic preservation and urban revitalization more generally. Nevertheless, looking at images from this article about Busch Stadium, yes a "throwback" stadium, and thinking about how likely it is for DC's coming Washington Nationals stadium to look pretty dated pretty quickly, because they are going for the architectural flavor of the moment, it's pretty telling how the difference in approaches yields more bang for the buck locally.

DC's stadium will cost local taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. The Busch Stadium in St. Louis cost "$365 million, with a $45 million loan from St. Louis County and $48 million in state tax credits; the Cardinals paid the rest," according to the News article.

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