A few years ago, the owners of the Rangers concluded that the sweat-inducing weather was depressing attendance, and decided to build $1.2 billion Globe Life Field, with a retractable roof and air conditioning, right next to their not-very-old and still perfectly good stadium. The residents of Arlington are chipping in $500 million of that cost. — Bloomberg
As climate change continues to bestow its work upon the planet, Texas Rangers Baseball are one of the many feeling its effects. Globe Life Field, the new HKS designed baseball park under construction in Arlington, Texas, and due for completion in March of next year, is the $1.2 billion response to the rising heat.
As innovations in stadium design continue to progress, the 'inconveniences' of the past will become the luxuries of the future, sweaty patrons now will have the comfort of climate controlled competition.
This article speaks of climate change but it doesn't address what impact the construction of a new stadium will have on climate change. A new construction of this magnitude will have a significant impact. This project is about bottom line, luxury and comfort not about climate change.
Despite my fond memories of getting smashed at Humperdink's (RIP) and sweating my ass off in the outfield in 100 degree weather as a true rite of passage, I can't say I didn't eventually see this coming. Fun fact: Arlington with almost 400,000 people is one of the largest cities in the United States without a comprehensive public transit system, but $500 million for a new A/C'ed baseball stadium? GIDDYUP Y'ALL
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This article speaks of climate change but it doesn't address what impact the construction of a new stadium will have on climate change. A new construction of this magnitude will have a significant impact. This project is about bottom line, luxury and comfort not about climate change.
Disaster Capitalism at its finest.
publicly subsidized.
Miles, we're dinosaurs, courting the meteors with our fancy plumage.
Despite my fond memories of getting smashed at Humperdink's (RIP) and sweating my ass off in the outfield in 100 degree weather as a true rite of passage, I can't say I didn't eventually see this coming. Fun fact: Arlington with almost 400,000 people is one of the largest cities in the United States without a comprehensive public transit system, but $500 million for a new A/C'ed baseball stadium? GIDDYUP Y'ALL
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