June 24, 2022

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STORY #1 — “There Isn’t a Whole Lot of ‘Float’ In This Schedule”
Richmond BizSense has a great story this week about the soon-to-be-announced winning development team to build the new Diamond District neighborhood, including a new baseball stadium for the Flying Squirrels, and the looking deadline imposed by Major League Baseball (MLB) says the stadium must be ready by Opening Day 2025. The article is a comprehensive roadmap of where this process will head (and should be bookmarked for that map and quotes to look back on in 2023, 2024, and 2025).

“And with two years expected to be needed for construction of the ballpark — not counting design work, permitting and other approvals that would precede it — parties involved agree that the timeframe will be challenging to meet, but are confident they’ll be able to pull it off.”

Essentially, that…