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SOMA would have developed regardless, and it is nonsense to suggest tech companies want to locate near baseball stadiums.
by Drunk_Engineer 5y ago
SOMA would have developed regardless, and it is nonsense to suggest tech companies want to locate near baseball stadiums.
- raldi 5y agoI never said tech companies want to be near baseball stadiums. Rather (like in Baltimore and San Diego), the new stadium revitalized a neighborhood whose original reason for being had mostly dried up, bringing enough business to support the (re)emergence of nearby restaurants and other amenities, and those investments in the neighborhood made it an attractive place to have offices that eventually became the new primary source of support for the restaurants, condos, hotel, etc. The stadium was what broke the neighborhood out of the chicken-and-egg quandary.