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NOTE: This is the second of a multi-part series over the next few weeks about the baseball stadium issue in Richmond. You can read Part 1 here.
Back in 2022 and 2023, Richmond was not the only city facing a dilemma about building a new baseball stadium. There is another city with a AA franchise that was discussing a new stadium in order to meet the minimum facility standards imposed by Major League Baseball (MLB); it would be paid for mostly by surrounding new development, be ready to open in 2025, and was originally was expected to cost about $80 million — but has since ballooned to $115 million. Sound familiar?
What has been going on in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is almost a carbon copy of the Richmond story, with one glaring exception —…
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