Minor League City

 Of all the ways to present this plan to the people of Richmond, Mayor Jones chose what I call the “blitzkrieg method.”

Mayor Jones and his allies seem to have a short-sighted concern for the present.

The ballpark itself is just a shortsighted, small-town idea.

Clearly, we don’t need to build a baseball park just to convince a little private investment.

I also don’t trust the statistics that are being used to convince me that the ballpark is a good idea financially.

Minor league baseball will always be minor league.

For the past 60 years, the leadership in Richmond have sliced and diced our city’s most historic core.

When Rachel Flynn was Director of Planning and Development, Richmonders passed a thoughtful and comprehensive plan for downtown that, if enacted, would finally unite the core of this city in a way that is sensible and beautiful.

We are living in the midst of a renaissance in Richmond, but the guy at the top seems to have completely missed it.

World-class cities are not built on a foundation of minor-league ideas.

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Also, Opinion: Whether you’re for or against the ballpark proposal, it’s worth heeding the lessons of the past