Posted Feb 23, 2012, 12:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Vancity
I can't ever see Bud Selig seeing Vancouver as potential place for a MLB franchise. It would never happen. If the demand for a specific baseball park only was the condition, we couldn't do it, unless it all came from private funding, without taxpayers $$...and we're talking about Vancouver here, MAYBE that'd work (hint hint, remember the 'Caps trying to build their own stadium with private funding... look what happened to that - instead we renovated a decades old stadium, with taxpayers money...our leaders in this city are really  )
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There wasn't an issue at the civic level; the port lands were the issue and are not under the jurisdiction of the city of Vancouver.
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