Rays proposed stadium 3-d video

I've been waiting patiently to share this with you all. And finally, it's here.

The city of St. Petersburg has a new, 45 second, 3-d video model showing the Tampa Bay Rays proposed waterfront stadium in its proposed downtown surroundings. Check it out. My hunch is that this video will support the opinions of both people for and against the waterfront stadium.

Big thank you to the city and specifically Julie Weston for helping us get copy of this video.

Comments

[Thomas]

"My hunch is that this video will support the opinions of both people for and against the waterfront stadium"

Aaron, you rock! That is hilarious.

[Lakeland Guy]

The stadium looks great. It's hard to believe such a beautiful design and location is getting so much negative attention for a lot of the wrong reasons (not all of the reasons are wrong). St Pete is a beautiful city and I only think the stadium will add to it.

[Thomas]

I do not support the funding plan - but I think the stadium looks sweet.

The Rays really need to step up and present a fair financing plan that would benefit the city and not just the team.

[Ray F]

I like how Aaron put that line in the video... priceless.

Looks great. I wonder about the accuracy of the curvature of the Earth in the background though. It would seem St Pete is almost the size of Europe. hahahahaha

Should spark both sides. This is what should be on this blog- not links between the uhurus and the stadium.

[Dave in St Pete]

Good Lord that this is almost as big as the whole of down town! Completely out of scale with the area.

[Ray F]

dave,

how is it out of scale with the other 20-30 story buildings downtown???

sorry, dude, downtown is not going to be just the Barnett Tower anymore. (old school)

[jeff gilbert]

I don't get it. Its on the edge of downtown anyway. IF this was such a problem, why do we have so many high rises going up everywhere? It just seems very disingenuous to suggest this park would be out of place. I don't know, maybe I'm not old enough to "get it."

[Thomas]

St. Pete is going New Skool.

That 3D vid doesnt even inlcude the new Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too

[Thomas]

Kazmir v Lackey in about 40mins.

This could be a preview of Game 1 of the ALCS.

I hope you all got your TiVo's queued up...

[Paul]

Kind of looks like a circus tent to me. A big circus tent. Wonder how the view will be from all those fancy condo's with the tent deployed. I'm calling it a tent, because that's what it is... a 'sail' to me, implies a boat... or a fancy word to offset the ugliness of the word tent.

The fact that there's video now is good. I think there should be more including a 3-D physical model we can go look at somewhere public.

[Ray F]

thomas,

games not televised man...

bummer.

[Rays]

I want to see a video with the sail down since if it's not raining that will be the main perceived vantage point.

[get-smart]

The stadium reminds me of a Star Trek (old dudes) adventure. The monster was a cone shaped object that resembles the stadium. It ate up anything in its path. It was so huge it ate planets. Of coarse, our waterfront earth bound monster just eats our tax dollars.

The only thing that would kill it was reverse logic. Maybe, there is a lesson to be learned.

[Rick K]

Another HOME RUN by Aaron.

Great video.

Thanks to Aaron, the Times, the Rays, the City, and Al Gore (for inventing the internet)!!

[Thomas]

Ray, there's ways around that.

Shoot me an email at tbraysin2008@gmail.com

I'll hook you up - no BS

[Ray F]

yeah, get-smart-

the lesson that should be learned was written centuries ago by an ancient chinese philosopher

Confucius Say:

"Man who quote Star Trek in stadium debate destined to lose all credibility in future."

[Ray F]

hey Thomas- check your email.

[John]

Just my opinion, but that is the ugliest thing I've ever seen. It looks like a 20 story igloo. I realize this igloo is a "convertible", but you still have a 30 story tall piling always there, with 20-30 sdspension cables exposed.

Let's call it the St. Pete Igloo

Hey Rick K, cat got your tongue? You never responded on my other thread about the Red Cross....change of heart?

[Native]

Paul, please enlighten the rest of us regarding the fancy condos? Bayfront Towers is the only Condo that has any view of the stadium

[Not looking good for the Rays on other blogs....]

Wow...I just leaped over to BNN's website to see what the folks are saying over there. Looks like the Rays don't have a PR shill on that site.

100% against. Every single comment. And there's close to 100 comments.

And the story they're commenting on is whether we should extend the bed tax for the Rays.

That St Pete Times Poll may in fact be innacurate after all, looking at other blogs from other sites, the oppositi
on is more like 85-90% against.

http://www.baynews9.com/Chat.cfm?event=evtListThreadsbyContentId&ThreadTypeId=1&ContentId=355986

Same goes for TBO stories, even the one about the reporter that spent an afternoon sitting in Al Lang to gauge the heat. They lambasted him on the comments!!

[get-smart]

Native -

You are right. The Bayfront Towers south building condo residents have a view. The city should charge them a special stadium viewing fee equivalent to a season ticket. If they sit outside on their terrace in the heat and watch the game, they will be charged at nose bleed season pass rates. If they are in a/c, they will be charged luxury suite season rates.

The stadium will have a wonderful sound funnel effect up Beach Dr. For all those that can hear all the stadium goin' ons for free, priceless.

The mass of it will probably raise the local bay temperature by 5*.

Cheers!

[Paul]

Native, to elaborate on my condo/view comment. Sure Bayfront is obvious, as is the new Signature Place. I was also talking about anyone who could see the sailboat / circus tent thing from their windows... the people at Vinoy condos and the condos above Park Shore Grill and the soon to open condo's at 400 Beach Drive... not to mention the yet to open Ovation condo's on 2nd Ave NE.

They will look out their windows.... see the nice open water, some sailboats, parks .... and this monster tent thing, not to mention the lights at night games. I don't live in any of the those places... but I'm thinking it may be less appealing of a view than it is now. I wouldn't want to have bought a nice water/city view and then have that stadium plunked in the middle of it. Just my hunch, but what do I know, I'm not a million dollar condo commando.

[Don in St. Pete]

I'd like to see the same 360 degree view from ground level but the effect is definitely horrid. If the biuld the monstrosity will all the people sell their condos when they get tired of all the noise and lights when games go to extra innings?

[Micah Mills]

I want to see a video of the dome on the waterfront.

www.movethedome.com

[Stop whinning]

The sail is down most of the time anyway. Unless your a bird of one of the lucky few to live in a 20 plus story condo your not seeing it from that angle.

I personally would love to watch baseball from my balcony. Chicago builds bleachers on top of their adjacent buildings.