It would not be inaccurate to say that there’s a different feel to our coverage of the proposed baseball stadium project along Peters Creek Parkway. It’s not that our first stories were puff pieces, but they captured the excitement of the project, the biggest idea for downtown since Krispy Kreme’s Unity Place unveiling of several years ago (West End Village, its shadow replacement, is proceeding nicely.)
But the stories today are more pointed, and they explore the details of the deal. Essentially, they revolve around what happens to taxpayers if the project heads south.
The shifting stories reflect the way that information is parceled out—or uncovered. In an ideal world, we would have all that information from the outset and be able to deliver soup to nuts in one big journalistic thud. That’s not the way the real world works.
Many of you may know or remember Bill Turner, who was an op-ed columnist for us several years ago. A good fisherman. A better friend. Bill is receiving a top honor from his home state of Kentucky, where he is a vice president at the University of Kentucky, his alma mater.
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I think basing projected revenue on the expectation that attendance will double is perhaps overly… ambitious.
Personally, I am, if anything, less likely to attend, as I prefer older stadiums to newer ones. In all likelihood, we’ll still go. I just won’t be as giddy about it. I can’t say we’re likely to go more often, though.
Thanks for the link concerning Bill Turner, an old friend.
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