downtown ballpark

Thanks to the El Paso Times for tweeting this out moments ago and thanks to YouTube for having it up!

This is a must watch! This ballpark looks incredible and makes you wish when you woke up tomorrow, it would be April 2014!

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The Pacific Coast League officially approved the sale of the San Diego Padres Triple-A baseball franchise to El Paso's MountainStar Sports -- which also officially approves the demolition of El Paso's City Hall to make room for a new baseball stadium.

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Shortly after noon, Mayor John Cook announced on ABC-7 that he would not exercise his right to veto Tuesday's city council decision.

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During the KLAQ Morning Show this morning, we had former newswoman-turned-attorney-turned-activist Stephanie Townsend Allala on talking about her views opposing the downtown ballpark.

Let's just say things got a little heated

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Yesterday's City Council meeting was headlined by the downtown ballpark vote, and discussion began around 11am. By the time things wrapped up, it was 6:15pm and some people spent as much as 10 hours at City Hall.

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The proponents of a downtown El Paso baseball park stood and cheered as if they were witnessing a game winning home run when the El Paso City Council voted to enter into a contract with the Mountain Star Sports Group.

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The "Play Ball, El Paso" rally drew a few hundred El Pasoans to Cleveland Square downtown in front of City Hall in a show of support for the downtown baseball stadium project. MountainStar Sports spokesman Steffen Poessiger talked about the rally and the issues behind it.

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When City Council approved the new $50 million downtown ballpark with a 6-2 vote on June 26th, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that Triple-A baseball was coming to El Paso by 2014. However, with mounting opposition to the ballpark's City Hall location, there is a growing concern that plans to build the new stadium might get scrapped.

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City Engineer Alan Shubert was on SportsTalk Tuesday to discuss the new downtown ballpark and the questions that everyone has about the placement.

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The conference room at the Nolan Richardson Rec Center was almost packed. Seeing two of El Paso's finest in uniform was a clue as to how this would go, as was the fact that there was a lot more gray hair in the audience than any other color

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