Triangle Business Journal’s Dane Huffman, who co-founded CapitalSportsNC.com, is reporting what everyone here in North Carolina and the rest of the baseball world is starting to realize…
Nashville may not be the ‘front-runner’ for MLB expansion in the East after all.
Nashville has committed $1.2 billion in public funds to building a brand new NFL stadium for the Tennessee Titans. A stadium which will likely not have hosted a single game by the time MLB Expansion kicks off.
The land Nashville was targeting for a stadium is off the board. Nashville just approved the East Bend redevelopment rezoning, which prohibits stadium or arena use on the property.
In an interview on WKRN radio in Nashville, Mayor Freddie O’Connell said in response to landing an MLB expansion team, “We do not have an MLB stadium, and we are not intending to publicly finance one.”
Unlike Raleigh, no owner has stepped up, and they’ve publicly stated they are hoping MLB provides them with one.
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