BatesUAB
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RE: BBJ: Birmingham leaders weigh $30 million Legion Field upgrade
(12-01-2017 02:01 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote: (12-01-2017 09:11 AM)Bham Blazer Wrote: (12-01-2017 09:06 AM)imjustafatkid Wrote: I must be the only UAB fan in existence who doesn't mind Legion Field.
It's better than nothing, but still a worn out dump in an run down part of town. A newer facility in Uptown, within walking distance of restaurants & motels, would be astronomically better!
That "run down part of town? was populated by middle class whites until US Steel shut down at the end of the 1970s. Many UA medical students lived in Elyton Village housing (including my wife in her first marriage) at that time. When the shut down of USS cost the area 30,000 good paying jobs, the people moved out and because of panic selling, property values dropped leading to the present demographics. Many, perhaps most, of those homes are still owned as rental properties by people living outside the city.
What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
And you can't seriously believe that the World Games factors into the calculus. Or, maybe I'm wrong. Hell, there might be literally hundreds of people coming to Birmingham for an event nobody has heard of involving sports nobody cares about.
(This post was last modified: 12-01-2017 03:55 PM by BatesUAB.)
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BBJ: Birmingham leaders weigh $30 million Legion Field upgrade
