Ok, so here is the scenario. Its Friday night, 7:15pm, your sitting with your wife and 3 kids on the lawn in left field at The New Ball park in Santa Clarita named “Landscape Solution Park” ( I cant think of a better name for our new stadium) watching the home team Santa Clarita Miners of the independent Frontier league beat the snot out of their rivals from Orange County.
After the game, you get in the car, which is parked at Santa Clarita Valley Public links, which is a daytime use public golf course and then head down Via Princessa to your home. Now, how cool would that be! with in about 10 minutes or so you are home and you never touched a freeway.
How do we accomplish this? Well its both easy and not so easy. First the easy part. The Whiticker-Bermite clean up area is roughly 900 acres. If the city is smart and the developers are smart they negotiate and build a golf course, outdoor pavilion type theatre and of course a new Minor league Baseball park.
Now the hard part. Attract or create a baseball team. First, you must have a stadium built or being built and then you need to have a buyer to bring the team here. The city of Santa Clarita spent $250 Million on the cross valley connector, I think we can figure out a way to spend 1/25 that to build a nice little stadium. Then we convince, oh say Don and Cheri Fleming to buy a team or create a team for the Frontier League and BOOM, we are watching Baseball locally. The financial capital required for a team is substantial and would need not only someone with a nice bank account but with the potential to bank roll the team for the initial 2 -3 start up period.
All of this is surrounded by trails and parks and beautiful trees and views. You see, we have an opportunity to have something built in our community that is something special. Something for everyone to enjoy. As opposed to 1500 new homes and 5000 new cars adding to the pollution and congestion.
I think we need to start the discussion on what needs to be done at the SITE! As the weeks go on we will build a better base for discussion and create alternatives to build upon. Click on the headline above for an article to get ya thinking as well.
Jack Murphy Stadium….Hummmm