Marlins Stadium: The public’s view results
A Marlins ballpark should be built in downtown Miami, rather than at the Orange Bowl, according to the results of a survey conducted by long-time Miami public relations firm Everett Clay Associates.
But it wasn’t exactly a landslide. In September, the company sent out a four-question survey that included the question of where a stadium should be built and of 2,268 sent out, only 231 were returned.
Of those, 39 percent voted for downtown Miami; 36 percent for the Orange Bowl. And 25 percent said a stadium should not be built and many of them said no public funds or tax dollars should be used.
CRAIG DAVIS In more than 33 years at the Sun Sentinel, Craig Davis has written about a wide variety of sports topics from baseball to yachting, fishing to triathlons, and also worked as a copy editor and page designer. Recently he reported on local sports, including running, swimming, cycling, equestrian and beach volleyball. He enjoys sports as a participant as well as a spectator, is active in the South Florida running scene plays in the curling club at Saveology Iceplex. This blog offers a glimpse at the business side of sports in the interest of enhancing enjoyment of the games and sporting options as a spectator as well as a participant.
