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PADRES HIRE CITY EXEC TO HELP IN DEVELOPING BALLPARK PLAN

          The Padres have named former San Diego City Manager
     Jack McGrory as Exec VP & COO "in charge of implementing"
     the team's ballpark and downtown development plans,
     according to Philip LaVelle of the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE. 
     The team also announced that CA attorney Bob Vizas, a Yale
     Law School classmate of Padres President & CEO Larry
     Lucchino, was named VP & Special Counsel.  The hirings come
     in the midst of the team's environmental-review phase, "with
     key hearings before the City Council slated for next month." 
     Lucchino said that McGrory "is going to have a great deal of
     responsibility" over the team's downtown development
     projects.  In addition to his new role, McGrory will be
     President of a new Padres development arm in charge of the
     Park at the Park, which will include office and retail space
     around the ballpark.  His hiring "continues a pattern in
     which the Padres have hired top City Hall talent to help
     them maneuver through the maze of San Diego politics and
     government" (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 9/21).
          TAKING SHAPE: Plans for the ballpark, which is being
     designed by HOK+LOB, include 42,000 seats, room for 2,500
     ticket holders for the Park at the Park's grassy knoll in
     right field and standing room for 1,500 throughout the
     facility.  Among other features: irregular dimensions in the
     outfield; an artificial beach, complete with sand and
     lifeguard chairs located behind right-center field; and
     party suites in the Western Metal Supply Building in left
     field.  The ballpark will also have 15,500 field-level seats
     between the foul poles, about 34% of the capacity, which is
     8,562 more than at Qualcomm Stadium (UNION-TRIBUNE, 9/19).  
     

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