Winston's ballpark
I've followed with interest Winston-Salem's plans for a downtown baseball stadium -- and more.
Impressed by the success of FirstHorizon Park in Greensboro and hopeful of revitalizing a craggy corner of downtown, the owners of the Winston-Salem Warthogs plan a 5,500-seat ballpark that they hope will see its first pitch in 2008.
The $189 million project would be located on the north side of Business 40 between Peters Creek Parkway and Green and First streets and calls not only for baseball, but for a second phase consisting of a multiplex theater, offices, stores and residences.
The sweeping effort seems in part an attempt to resuscitate a development that would have been anchored by a new Krispy Creme corporate headquarters before the doughnut maker's fortunes suddenly turned sour.
The Winston-Salem City Council's finance committee voted this week to recommend as much as $29 million in incentives for the project.
Winston-Salem city leaders visited Greensboro some time ago to check out First Horizon Park and obviously liked what they saw.
As a former Winston resident, I wished they'd do more in another part of town, the North Liberty Street area, which is the grimiest, least attractive part of Winston's downtown. I've always liked Winston's downtown and admired its bustle as long ago as the early 1980s. even as tumbleweeds seemed to blowing down South Elm in Greensboro.
I also always thought it had a cool skyline that gave it a city feel you could see from Business 40.
I know, the new Wachovia tower there looks like a big roll-on deodorant stick -- or worse -- but I like what Winston is doing with its downtown and wish them well with it.
It only enhances the Triad for all of its cities to have lively downtowns. Vibrant center cities should not detract from regional initiatives. I only hope our area cities find enough common ground to keep working together.
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Now if we could just Greensboro and Winston-Salem in the same league. There is a big gap between the quality of Greensboro's stadium and the baseball that is played on the field. The Carolina League (where Winston-Salem plays) is a Class A league, but the players are older and the level of play much higher than the South Atlantic League (which is also spread out all over the place geographically). Better still, the Southern League has just 10 teams and could expand and take in both if they could find two major league teams ready to change AA affiliates (which does happen from time to time). I don't know that the owners feel a sense of urgency about this, because the Grasshoppers will selll alot of tickets even if they don't do anything at all, but AA would be a step up for both the team and the city.
Posted on December 16, 2006 9:41 AM
I remember similar conversations some years ago across the hall in the sports department, Dudley.
As I understand it, the Hoppers have not ruled out a higher level of competition and built the new ballpark with that possibility in mind.
But you're right ... as of now they're in Class A. Lower Class A.
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