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Originally posted by markgrace
wow, those are pretty cool. Can you post some info about why they weren't built or when they were supposed to be built and for what teams?
Im just curious!
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Armour Field and environs was designed in 1987-88 as a demonstration project for the Ballparks Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). As a "counter-project" alternative to the Chicago White Sox plans for what became New Comiskey Park, Armour Field sought to illustrate that a compact-footprint neighborhood ballpark could provide fan comforts and generate industry standard revenues in an intimate ballpark setting that also functioned as part of a lively neighborhood environment. The stadium boom of the 1990s brought baseball back from suburbia into cities, but more as entertainment zone "anchors" than as components of city neighborhoods.
Broadway Commons (1991-1996) was an extended citizens’ effort to locate a new ballpark for the Cincinnati Reds in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood at the foot of Mt. Adams on the edge of downtown Cincinnati. A joint effort of Thursday Architects, Cincinnati architect Tom Fernandez, and Cincinnati restaurateur Jim Tarbell, Broadway Commons won enthusiastic support from Reds fans, local politicians, and the press, but could never persuade the Reds to leave the riverfront, in spite of the project’s lower cost, greater intimacy, and competitive revenue generating capacity.
Downtown Milwaukee Ballpark was commissioned by the City of Milwaukee as a background study in hopes of persuading the owner of the Milwaukee Brewers to locate his new publicly funded ballpark downtown rather than on the suburban fringe of the city. Promoted without success by a New Urbanist Mayor, the City proposed the demolition of a freeway spur on the north side of downtown, and the location of a new ballpark along the edge of the Milwaukee River as part of new neighborhood development at the northern edge of downtown. Parking was to be accommodated by new and existing lots and garages dispersed throughout the downtown area and immediate environs. The Brewers’ owner wasn’t buying it; and the $500M "Miller Field" became the new home of the Brewers.