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New Knights Uptown Ballpark Delayed until 2010 now . . . Booooo!!!!!!

Discussion in 'MLB - Baseball Forum' started by sds70, May 15, 2008.

  1. May 15, 2008 at 6:07 PM #1
    sds70

    sds70 'King Kong Ain't Got **** On Me!!!!!'

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    I guess the Knights will get their Uptown Ballpark eventually :-( :-( . . . But they won't move into there now until the start of the 2010 season (which will be 20 years since they moved out to Fort Mill). Hopefully all the lawsuits from Jerry Reese will end soon so Knights can get to work on their ballpark . . .


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    Knights officially push back ballpark opening date to 2010 NEW!

    Posted May 15, 2008

    No surprise: the Charlotte Knights (Class AAA: International League) have moved the opening day of a new uptown ballpark from 2009 to 2010. Two reasons for the delay: the county has been fighting off (and winning) lawsuits from local developer Jerry Reese challenging the legality of the land deal underlying the ballpark agreements, while the Knights ownership still has not closed on financing (the financial arrangements call for the Knights to build the ballpark and the county to provide the land). Given the credit crunch in the markets these days, a delay isn't surprising; it also would not be surprising to see owner Don Beaver need to shed another asset to finance the new ballpark. In April we questioned whether a 2009 date was doable and subsequently moved the Charlotte ballpark to our list of 2010 projects.
     

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