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Sox news: Reports this morning that Ishbia is buying the railyard...

Posted by auto <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=auto' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 18, 2026, 8:57:58

just West of the river and South of Roosevelt for the new Sox stadium.

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/real-estate/commercial/ccb-justin-ishbia-amtrak-white-sox-20260317/

Hope this happens. That would be a good spot for a stadium.

i can't imagine the logistics and dollars involved with building there.*

Posted by Ari Gold <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Ari+Gold' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 18, 2026, 10:39:57, in reply to "Sox news: Reports this morning that Ishbia is buying the railyard..."

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It's currently a car yard for Amtrak.

Posted by auto <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=auto' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 18, 2026, 11:46:18, in reply to "i can't imagine the logistics and dollars involved with building there.*"

I assume Amtrak will just have to find somewhere else to store their cars.

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I have not been following this at all. Why are the Sox looking to leave Rate?*

Posted by Lexillini <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Lexillini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 18, 2026, 10:17:08, in reply to "Sox news: Reports this morning that Ishbia is buying the railyard..."
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Guns. Have them.

The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.

Socialism is the gospel of envy.

Poor attendance, mostly.

Posted by auto <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=auto' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 18, 2026, 11:42:25, in reply to "I have not been following this at all. Why are the Sox looking to leave Rate?*"

It's just not in a great area. Even leaving aside the North Side/South Side dichotomy, there's no reason to go down there other than for a game. It's hemmed in on the East by the highway, on the West by the train tracks and on the South by public housing. There's a couple bars to the North, but they're on the edge of a residential area and really just cater to locals.

All of these teams know the score now, not only is there a ton of money to be made off of building entertainment districts by the stadiums, but they are huge drivers of attendance. Stadiums that sit off a highway with nothing around them are dinosaurs and they're particularly bad in baseball where you don't have a massive cash inflow from the league to mitigate the disadvantage the way you do in the NFL.

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I seem to recall there being a lot of discussion about location when New Comiskey was . . .

Posted by Lexillini <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Lexillini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 18, 2026, 13:44:55, in reply to "Poor attendance, mostly."
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. . . first proposed. More than a few people advocated building somewhere else, far removed from that neighborhood. But they had to be very careful about how they phrased their concerns, lest they be branded "racists".

Guns. Have them.

The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.

Socialism is the gospel of envy.

I'm not as reflexively against that neighborhood as many people are...

Posted by auto <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=auto' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 18, 2026, 14:30:50, in reply to "I seem to recall there being a lot of discussion about location when New Comiskey was . . ."

I used to live fairly close on the West Side and we would go for runs down to Bridgeport often. IIT is also turning into a pretty nice area - I was just down there a few months back.

That being said, it's hard to deny the impact that the views many people still have on attendance. And, even if those views didn't exist, it's just a bad location for the reasons I mentioned above. It's just not in area that can be developed so that people want to spend time there.

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the view of the Robert Taylor homes was a pure White Sox choice*

Posted by AceFrehley <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=AceFrehley' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 18, 2026, 14:16:26, in reply to "I seem to recall there being a lot of discussion about location when New Comiskey was . . ."

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it seems fine to me, but most people want something new. and they don't own it or the area around it

Posted by Ari Gold <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Ari+Gold' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 18, 2026, 10:43:14, in reply to "I have not been following this at all. Why are the Sox looking to leave Rate?*"

not that you'd want to in this case.

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