The main issue that I have (besides demolishing Roberts Stadium) with the current ballfields proposal is that it will face the same problem Roberts Stadium faces, it would be landlocked.
I believe that wherever the ballfields are placed it should be with plenty of room for business to grow around it. I would also like to see them improve a blighted area as well as enhance current attributes about Evansville. What one possible location could satisfy all three of these requirements?
After careful analysis, I support placing the ballfields on the land currently occupied by the warehouses next to Bosse Field and Garvin Park. Why do I support this land? For several reasons...
1. It would be keeping with the baseball theme of Bosse Field
2. It would be improve a current blighted area currently occupied with rundown warehouses.
3. It would bring more people down to see Pigeon Creek and the Greenway next to Garvin Park.
4. It would allow for businesses to build a Coney Island-like development project where rides, hotdogs, and a boardwalk would circle around the ballfields and Pigeon Creek.
I do not believe that Roberts Stadium lot would be as profitable as the Garvin Park lot for these 4 reasons. Garvin Park would seem to be the logical choice to me since it would accomplish these 4 things as well as keep Roberts Stadium intact and satisfy nearby neighbors of Roberts Stadium.
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