{"id":591,"date":"2008-05-12T13:41:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T17:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/?p=591"},"modified":"2008-05-12T13:41:34","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T17:41:34","slug":"ballpark-is-slow-to-aid-gary-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/2008\/05\/12\/ballpark-is-slow-to-aid-gary-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballpark is slow to aid Gary growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Associated Press, May 12, 2008:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>GARY &#8211; The city&#8217;s minor league baseball stadium is attracting fans, but some city leaders hope it will also attract more economic development to the area and boost property tax revenues.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. SteelYard, home to the Gary SouthShore RailCats, was proposed in 2000 by former Mayor Scott King with a price tag of $20 million, a cost that eventually grew to $45 million. The park itself wasn&#8217;t designed as a moneymaker, but as a way to bring economic development to the area, the Post-Tribune of Merrillville reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The starting point was to bring people in,&#8221; King said. &#8220;Create the market, not create the businesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Attendance at RailCats games has increased, from about 140,000 people in 2003 to 166,000 in 2007, team representative Aaron Pineda said.<\/p>\n<p>Yet several nearby properties with development potential are still owned by the city of Gary and do not generate property tax revenue, according to Lake County records. The delay in development was partly caused by changes in Indiana&#8217;s property tax system, King said, and money from local casinos was no longer available to improve infrastructure in the area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railcatsbaseball.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gary SouthShore RailCats Official website<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Aerial view of Gary ballpark, from mapquest.com\" rel=\"lightbox[Gary]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/Gary_Ballpark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/tGary_Ballpark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Aerial view of Gary ballpark, from mapquest.com\" rel=\"lightbox[Gary]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/Gary_Ballpark1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/tGary_Ballpark1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My comments: It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve been to Gary, or even through there on the way to Chicago or elsewhere.\u00c2\u00a0 I have\u00c2\u00a0never had\u00c2\u00a0positive feelings about the city, especially with some of the news that occasionally comes out of that town.\u00c2\u00a0 I am sure I am not the only person to feel this way.\u00c2\u00a0 It would be easy to look at this story and say it applies to our own Harrison Square project.\u00c2\u00a0 However, one must keep in mind that Fort Wayne doesn&#8217;t have that (well hopefully at least) negative impression to overcome.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, a quick perusal of the website states that the team was brought to Gary in time for the 2002 season and the ballpark was built in 2001.\u00c2\u00a0 They started from scratch whereas we are moving an established team downtown.\u00c2\u00a0 The only possibility for a similarity might be in the cost overrun of the Gary ballpark construction.\u00c2\u00a0 So far, the project is on budget, in fact, a little under budget.\u00c2\u00a0 Only time will prove out whether it comes in on time and on budget.\u00c2\u00a0 Personally, I think there&#8217;s a pretty good chance of this happening!<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3><div class=\"ngg-related-gallery\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/hs-belmont-beverage\/08887.jpg\"\n\t\t\ttitle=\"The Belmont Beverage store at the corner of West Jefferson Boulevard and South Harrison Street which was demolished to make way for the Harrison Square project.\"\n\t\t\tclass='thickbox' rel='d90aa94ad8184129d7cb3127f380623d' data-image-id=\"1290\" 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