And Cary leaders I’m sure would welcome that, we may not have a hard time getting that approved over there unlike Raleigh. Hey the Rangers play in Arlington most teams play in the Suburbs.
How many years did Cary dither on approving the Shiny Diner? Cary specifically would be such a weird place for this, but who knows.
Most teams do not play in the suburbs. I feel like its pretty much only Atlanta, Kansas City, Texas, Anahiem, and maybe Milwaukee.
Just FYI, I’ve spoken to people at Town of Cary and I believe they would be 100% on board for MLB coming to Cary. Not sure if this is now a site that will be studied, but I’d say it would be good idea & potentially a possibility (maybe not a first choice but a possibility).
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We can call them the Cary Yankees. Paying homage to the congested area of relocated Yankees.
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To be fair, I can’t imagine any particular community in the Triangle (other than Chapel Hill) saying no to MLB.
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I mean I imagine they’d insist team colors would be beige and eggshell, and the stadium sign could only use Times New Roman font or something, but if Cary is willing more power to them.
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I like it. Perfect spot for it.
I’m sorry but I cannot understand how Cary Town Center can be viewed as a good location for an MLB stadium.
You end up with the same isolation as WakeMed Soccer Park.
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WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary doesn’t have direct interstate access like Cary Town Center has. It’s a huge difference in driveability/time/ease of traffic movement to where an MLB stadium could land in Cary vs the awkward jaunt to get to the soccer stadium.
The Containment Area for Relocated Yankees would welcome them. So glad they never built a Top Golf or Drive Shack at the mall site; the giant nets are an eyesore even driving by any of these giant golf and games locations.
Epic way overpaid given the commercial real estate market now, vs when they purchased, but they might be able to salvage some of their investment if they work out a reduced cost to sell the land to Hines Development or Kaine and be listed as a stadium sponsor.
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An honest question: Is being “next to a road that has direct interstate access down the street” the same thing as actual direct interstate access when it comes to a stadium complex?
You’re still talking about 30-40k people trying to exit suburbia at the same time via car 80+ times a year.
I can’t be convinced on this one. The closer to Downtown Raleigh, the better.
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Isn’t that pretty much the same kind of setup as PNC?
And unless the stadium is on the far south side of downtown, it’ll have the same traffic problems as that location, even with some people taking the train (and I say that as someone that would much prefer it downtown).
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Yes. Cary TC site qualifies as “interstate located”. It would be an incredible and centrally located spot for a stadium. Would they let it be called Raleigh is the question!
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Well, the major leagues are full of teams not in their city proper, yet carry the city name. The SF 49ers are in Santa Clara (50 miles south of the city next to San Jose); the Dallas Cowboys are in Arlington; none of the LA teams are actually in LA; and neither NYC NFL team is even in the state of NY! That said, I’m sure that Raleigh will roll-over in the name of regionalism and capitulate to the use of “Carolina” if the team wasn’t physically in the city of Raleigh. Heck, Raleigh is likely to capitulate even if the team was in Raleigh!
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I don’t think it would be called Raleigh even if it was located in the heart of Raleigh. I think it’s more likely to be ‘Carolina’ or ‘North Carolina’
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I understand the thinking behind that kind of branding, but I absolutely hate it.
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Exactly. All those cities are embraced as the true “capital” by their suburb towns where here for some reason its some huge competition between all the municipalities. How we landed in this world of sub regionalism where few if any other cities did is such a strange phenomenon.
This is so lame. Why is that?
Because the Triangle (and NC) are uniquely multipolar.
To take California as an example, it has LA, San Diego, Sacramento, with the Bay Area as the multipolar outlier, but even there SF was the historic metropolis of the state and the whole West Coast for a whole century before the other regional cities caught up.
Meanwhile, we have Charlotte, the Triangle, the Triad, and Wilmington, which have traded the biggest and wealthiest around each other, and the Triangle and the Triad are both full of proud, prickly city leaders with bones to pick with the other cities and areas. “Carolina” is safe - see the Panthers.
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Yet somehow Durham has no issue slapping its city name on things.
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