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If they do get Batavia from the New York-Penn League it you be nice if they can somehow reduce the amount of seats and make McCoy more intimate, how, I'm not sure.
Covered seating is always good, but what if they took the roof off and removed the upper seating part and made an open concourse with food vendors up there and put the roof back on some how.
As for getting a AA Eastern League team, besides needing that wavier from Worcester, I don't know how many teams are available and wanting to move. Erie finally got some money from Commonwealth of PA to upgrade/update their stadium, so they should be around for a while.
The Richmond Flying Squirrels have been wanting a new stadium to replace The Diamond, since they started play in 2010 and the Braves left for the Atlanta 'burbs in 2008. The latest is that they will probably build a new stadium in the parking lot of The Diamond and share it with VCU maybe. I don't see Richmond moving, since they average 6,000 each game in an outdated, falling apart stadium, which is good enough to be near the top in attendance in the Eastern League and all of AA.
4 or 5 years ago, there was talk of a complicated ownership swap and relocation with Binghamton moving to Wilmington, DE and the Blue Rocks moving elsewhere, but that fell through. Binghamton is in need of an updated/new ballpark, I could see them as the most vulnerable EL team that could relocate. They did see a boost in attendance this past year, but it was due to the "Tebow Effect"!
Regarding the condition of the Apex site, I just saw this Valley Breeze piece about the many citations for code violations that the city has issued its owners over the years.
Worcester somehow has 100M for the Pawsox AAA Stadium while at the same time a City Council subcommittee is looking into the feasibility of creating a new 1 percent local sales tax (on top of the state's 6.25% rate)?
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