Down from the Hill: Imagining a Downtown Stadium

Some Friday Stadium Play Time

By Eric Richardson — May 04, 2007 — 29 Comments

Stadium Interactive

Continuing on Monday’s stadium discussion, here’s a fun little toy for helping you envision how a baseball stadium might fit into the fabric of Downtown. The Stadium Interactive lets you drag the stadium around, rotate it, and even flip between five different stadium models. It also lets you get a link for your design so you can share it here in the comments.

Pictured is my current favorite stadium site, first suggested by Tim Quinn. You can see the live version here. It would place the stadium on the site of existing DWP facility, so at least for the most part it’s land the City already owns.

Give it a go and come back to share your stadium sites. After the jump a slight bit more on how to make it all work… — Continued Inside...


Imagining a Downtown Stadium

By Eric Richardson — April 30, 2007
29 Comments

Dodger Stadium

I got a call last week from Steve Hymon, writer of the Times Local Government column. Last week Steve took a look at the horror that is Dodger Stadium parking. He noted that however bad the decision to isolate the Stadium up on the hill might have been, it’s never too late to change it. The other lesson is that when a city makes a big mistake in the realm...