Nolan wanted to buy it but said person at the city offered no incentives so he passed. Hopefully they can try again, not sure if Ryan has walked.
New baseball stadium location?
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I'd love to be able to move to LaGrave, but I would worry we would lose some of the environment that comes with having an on-campus stadium. In an ideal world, we could buy some of the land that is part of the tennis facility from the city of fort worth.
Tcu doesn’t own all of that land? Seems like it would be easy to borrow from a few of the 30 or so tennis courts they have over there
LaGrave Field (I haven't driven by in a long time, but heard it was an eyesore).
I drove by there last week.... its sad what it has become. Completely overgrown and covered in graffiti.
From what I understand is that it is owned by the city of Fort Worth which is why there hasn't been major renovations to the player facilities.
I thought you were still in the clinc.
Bryan Adams and Def Leppard lit it up back in the day!LaGrave Field (I haven't driven by in a long time, but heard it was an eyesore).
I’m surprised also TCU doesn’t own all the land. Get busy TCU, buy the land and expand lupton to Amon carter quality and there it’s done!
I'm 100% certain the people pulling the strings have no intentions of baseball ever being played there. 7+ is a lot of commercial/residential development. For some reason the figure of $14M comes to.mind but I may be way off. I do find it laughable that the improvements are even valued by the county just under 700k and the entire parcel value is roughly 3M.
La Grave Field housed an independent league baseball team, and their best draw was cheap beers and cheap tickets.
20 mins away you have the greatest baseball players in the world playing at Globe Life Field(before you make the joke, we can reference the visiting team). An hour away you have the Frisco Roughriders (AA), you’ve got another independent league team in Cleburne, an independent ballpark in Grand Prairie that now houses a cricket team (I’m not kidding). For a short time they used the ballpark in Weatherford for the Texas Collegiate League, 04-07. Just a lot of baseball, and competing teams in a small area. La Grave Field is cool, but there’s no need to reinvent baseball there. The best opportunity we had was building the Rangers ballpark there a few years ago and that was a pipe dream.
20 mins away you have the greatest baseball players in the world playing at Globe Life Field(before you make the joke, we can reference the visiting team). An hour away you have the Frisco Roughriders (AA), you’ve got another independent league team in Cleburne, an independent ballpark in Grand Prairie that now houses a cricket team (I’m not kidding). For a short time they used the ballpark in Weatherford for the Texas Collegiate League, 04-07. Just a lot of baseball, and competing teams in a small area. La Grave Field is cool, but there’s no need to reinvent baseball there. The best opportunity we had was building the Rangers ballpark there a few years ago and that was a pipe dream.
If you build it, they will come.
LaGrave Field (I haven't driven by in a long time, but heard it was an eyesore).