Another way to do baseball stadiums and urban revitalization

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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