Beaverton Beavers Ballpark Rendering

[urbanlife]

That is a shame, he was basically hoping the city of Beaverton would just rush into this plan, condemn the needed property and start building right away...what he didnt realize is that the city council has no balls to take on dramatic projects which is why Beaverton's downtown is a sorry excuse for a downtown.

But on the other end, I think Paulson was too quick to want to move the Beavers out of PGE Park, I doubt that MLS would be against giving some grace time with the renovation while plans for the Beavers are worked out in a much more normal fashion instead of the shitstorm that we have witnessed.

As of now, the worst that could happen is that Paulson pulls the deal for the Timbers and we are left with what we currently have...there is also that possibility that another metro will jump at the Beavers and Paulson will move them out of the city so that the MLS can move in.

Either way, I think it is still important for a growing metro to continue looking at the possibility of getting a MLB team, which I would be in much greater support for because not only would it be a pro baseball team, but with the Beavers, I could care less about the Padres...hell, Tacoma's team attracts a higher attendance because of who their pro team is than the Beavers can.

On the hopeful side, I hope this is a nice wake up for the city of Beaverton that has informed them that if they wish to redevelop their downtown into something usable, then they will need to pull their heads out of their asses and actually do some leg work rather than hoping magical developers will fly in and do all the work for them.


Also, I figured this was gonna be dead in the water when I heard the city council talking about sending this to a vote...not because it would lose in a ball of flames, but because the vote would probably have to happen in May and Paulson needed this to be a done deal by Thanksgiving so that stadium construction could begin in February.