Yankees reveal new stadium plans

[cruadin]

06/15/2005 4:22 PM ET
Yankees reveal new stadium plans
By Tom Singer / MLB.com
http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050615&content_id=1090587&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy

NEW YORK -- A new Yankee Stadium leaped from past dreams to future reality Wednesday, when club and government officials parted the curtain on construction plans for an $800 million project to replace and honor the Major Leagues' third-oldest ballpark.

Plans for the new stadium, the centerpiece of a broad redevelopment project to revitalize the Bronx riverfront, were announced at a media conference in the Stadium Club of the current Yankee Stadium.

Numerous political dignitaries, including New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York Gov. George Pataki and a host of city and Bronx elected officials, joined Yankees owner George Steinbrenner in an event highlighted by the unveiling of renderings of the 51,000-seat park targeted for a 2009 opening.

The Yankees plan to pay for all costs related to the stadium.

"We are staying at home in the Bronx," Yankees president Randy Levine said. "We are continuing our tradition in the Bronx.

"The Yankees, not the taxpayers, will pay for this project. The Yankees, not the taxpayers, will pay to maintain this ballpark." ...




Well, at least they're not milking the taxpayers to build the new stadium.;)

[marmar]

1. Yes, building a new park in the Bronx makes all the sense in the world.

Not the parade of silly proposals to build a stadium on the west side of Manhattan.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

2. As long as the taxpayers don't nbeed to waste money

good the yanks!

[northzax]

4. basically what happens

is that the private financing schemes transfer the burden from the local government to the federal government, as everone gets big fat tax breaks. but still.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

8. blah....fat cats

its stil better then taking money from the local government

[JohnKleeb]

3. Well then I have to go to the Bronx

I would love to see that ballpark even though the Yankees themselves I hate with a passion.

[Call me Deacon Blues]

6. Yeah, me too

for obvious reasons.

[JohnKleeb]

7. its got a lot of history there

I want to go to Fenway and Wrigley for the same reasons.

[Zerex71]

5. A-Rod can pay for the field himself.

After all, he makes more money than some small countries do in a year, and he deserves very little of it.

[Zech Marquis]

9. I respect the Yankees for doing that

they have mountains of money to spend, so having them buy a new without sticking the taxpayers is always a good thing.