Shockoe Bottom stadium questions stiff-armed

The traveling show that has been selling the concept of building a baseball stadium in Shockoe Bottom stopped off at Hill Middle School last week. Richmond.com has a piece up that I wrote about the event.

Tougher questions were asked. A man brought up Bostic’s history with Richmond Baseball Initiative, the group that effectively put the kibosh on the plan to renovate The Diamond, with its push for a baseball stadium in Shockoe Bottom five years ago. Bostic bristled. He labeled the question, “unfair!” Then he blustered about The Diamond’s $18.5 million renovation plan. He cracked that the figure would have turned out to be “$30 million.”

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