Nationals Preparing New Ballpark For Opening Day
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Nationals Owner Says New Ballpark
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Nationals Owner Mark Lerner said Nationals Park is "going to be ready on time," according to Thomas Boswell of the WASHINGTON POST, who examines the ballpark's progress in a sports section front-page piece. Lerner: "We've spent the last 18 months working on every detail inside the park to make it a more vivid, colorful, exciting place." The Nationals are "perhaps proudest of how they have taken an abysmal parking situation ... and, they hope, turned it into a bearable experience." The Nationals have "scrounged enough parking spots, almost 5,500, so that every season ticket holder, including those with 20-game plans, has a space." However, while some fans in the upper deck will have views of "spectacular city vistas" that include the U.S. Capitol and Washington Monument, others will see two garages that sit outside the stadium beyond left and center field. Lerner said that he will have the garages "covered by Opening Day with league logos, replicas of the 'Washington All-Stars' from the right field scoreboard in RFK as well as colorful baseball-themed ads." Meanwhile, Boswell notes behind home plate, the "cement trucks, the billowing clouds of dust on hot afternoons and all the industrial detritus ... constitute an enormous and inexcusable 5.8-acre eyesore." If the land behind the stadium does not get rezoned, the "monstrosity could stay for two or three seasons." Boswell: "Nothing in the vicinity of any other major league park is even one-tenth as ugly." Lerner: "It really is sad. ... We're just going to put up a red fence so you can't see it from ground level" (WASHINGTON POST, 2/27).
FOOD NETWORK: In DC, Gillian Gaynair notes at least eight DC-area companies will have "concession stands, carts or both" inside the new ballpark. Centerplate will manage the park's food and merchandise, including menus for the indoor dining clubs (WASHINGTON BUSINESS JOURNAL, 2/22 issue).
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