King County Exec Gary Locke has asked the Metropolitan
County Council for a $1M emergency appropriation to fix some of
the "most glaring defects identified" at the Kingdome in a recent
HOK study (SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, 4/11)....The city of
Indianapolis has named the new home of the Triple-A Indians,
Victory Field. Team President Max Schumacher said the team would
not be against renaming the facility for a corporate sponsor
(INDIANAPOLIS STAR/NEWS, 4/11)....NATIONAL SPEED SPORT NEWS
examines the possibility of using PSLs at the Texas Motor
Speedway. No PSL price has been settled on, but speculation has
the figure of $1,000 per seat (NATIONAL SPEED SPORT NEWS, 4/10
issue).....In New York, David Firestone writes New York Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani's tentative support for moving the Yankees to
Manhattan's West Side has "allowed his political opponents to
feast on what may be one of the defining issues of the 1997
mayoral campaign" (N.Y. TIMES, 4/11). Stanford economist Roger
Noll examines a new $1B+ Yankee Stadium in a N.Y. TIMES op-ed:
"Stadiums are bad investments, which is why the teams themselves
are never willing to pay for them. New York City would generate
more cash by putting the money in a savings account" (N.Y. TIMES,
4/11)....Tigers President John McHale said the Tigers should
start playing in their new stadium by the start of '99 and that
financing will be finalized once a lawsuit to block the use of
funds from the quasi-public Michigan Strategic Fund is resolved
(DETROIT FREE PRESS, 4/10).