Editorial Board: 'The community and elected officials at all levels must have as their primary focus the impact of a ballpark on the surrounding neighborhood.'
Early concepts of a Major League Baseball park planned for Salt Lake City's Power District.Take us out to the ball game. Please.. The timing is just right. The vision of a location for, and surrounding development with, a stadium site is well-thought-out. The whole community should get behind the effort.Big-time sports development can be a boon or a bane for a community.
Gov. Spencer Cox, a supporter of the MLB effort, is right when he says that there is a significant difference between socialism for the rich and community investment. Public funding of surrounding infrastructure that builds up the whole of the neighborhood, not just the ballpark, could be in order, and would follow the example set by the creation of the once and futureSignificantly, that home for the Utah Jazz basketball team was created by the late Utah mega-businessman Larry Miller.
As a community, Salt Lake City could well benefit from a major draw that would go a long way to end the view of the West Side being a separate, remote community and make the North Temple neighborhood a spot that East Siders go to, to enjoy themselves and spend money, not just speed through on their way to the airport.
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