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(03-23-2018 06:10 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

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(03-23-2018 04:57 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  Competing with Atlanta is a mid20th century dream that is Gone with the Wind. We are now preparing to compete with Huntsville, Montgomery and perhaps Mobile. We will not know our exact competition until we actually have built (and renovated) something with which to compete and see whom we can attract. By the end of the next decade we should have our answer.

Guess what those cities also aren't building AT THIS TIME?
Huntsville is building a new stadium in Madison and who knows what they will build next now that they have those new industries coming in recruited by the Alabama industrial procurers? I'm guessing that by 2030 our answers will be obviously known.

Well Madison is building a new stadium in Madison, not Huntsville, and guess what? It's a minor league baseball stadium, not a domed stadium. Birmingham already has one of those. Neither Madison, Huntsville, Mobile, nor Baldwin County are building a $500 million domed stadium. Birmingham will still have the largest non-football facilities in the state.

You are correct that B'ham is presently (marginally) ahead of Madison, Huntsville, Mobile, Baldwin County and Montgomery in "non-football facilities". Now, if that remains the extent of our competition, where will the city be ranked regionally by 2030? BTW, has anyone heard what city's name is going to be on the uniform of the team in Madison? Perhaps they will be the Madison Bears? I guess we are supposed to feel comfort that we stay ahead of your listed competition right now. What if one or more decide in the 2020s to raise their ante in this competition?

The largest of those metro areas is only 1/3 the size of Metro Birmingham. It would take an economic boom the likes of which no one has ever seen for any of them to triple in size in 15 years. Even if they did, they would then only be the size of Birmingham today. That means at that point, they still wouldn't be anywhere near the size of a city needed to support such a facility.