What does Bart Peterson and Lil' Stevie Goldsmyth have in common?

[BiggJawn]

They both know what Jimmy Irsay tastes like.

If I was Mayor of India-no-place, I'd tell that slack-jawed yokel who'd be homeless if his daddy hadn't had owned the Baltimore Colts, "Look, Jimmy, you want the taxpayers to pony up money for a NEW playhouse for your millionaires to play in? You say the RCA dome is OLD? Hey, look around you. This place was built in 19-fuckin'-61. Maybe YOU should be buying ME a new office...OK, fine, but I'm putting some performance 'strings' on it. You bring me a Super Bowl ring, and then maybe we can work something out. Until then, get the fuck off the 25th floor, you're stinking up the place..."

$600,000, just to see if it's "feasible" to build a new stadium south of the present one. How much you wanna bet they find some SERIOUS "brownfield" issues with that area?

[Ouabache]

1. bownfield issues

that site was very CLOSE to the old livestock yards of yesteryear.
truly. Also a lot of former industrial and warehousing was there.
You might be right. But will it get covered up with TONS of concrete?
Could be.

[BiggJawn]

2. There were "Concerns" with Conseco

It was built on the site of the old gas works. I remember hearing that they were expecting huge problems...But never heard if there were any.

I understand that the proposed site of Jimmy's Playhouse has an underground stream running through it, and that whole near-southside has a major industrial past. Factories, Warehouses, who knows what's been done there.

It's been so long, I can't remember exactly where the stockyards were,. I think they were to the west of there, along the river.