“The Battery is the best example in our minds,” Brooks Sherman said. “But you look around the league and you’ve seen all these [examples]. San Diego, what it did for the Gaslamp [Quarter)] there. Washington, D.C., Colorado are great. We want to be additive to wherever we go. We want the live, work and play environment.”
The live, work and play dynamic. Those other venues have that but in different settings, from the urban core (San Diego, Denver) to a rehabilitated blue-collar district (Washington) to the suburbs (Atlanta).
These are contexts the Royals are sifting through now, making them a test case for ballpark development trends. If The Battery is the model, just where should that model be turned into reality elsewhere?