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Sounds Drops Efforts To Divert Sales Tax
Team Works To Extend Greer Stadium Lease
POSTED: 5:56 pm CDT May 9,
2008
UPDATED: 7:57 pm CDT May 9,
2008
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Nashville Sounds are dropping efforts to divert some sales tax money toward construction of a new ballpark and will have to start over to work out details with the city's current mayor.
Watch This StoryThe Triple-A team had hoped to move into a new ballpark in 2009.The Sounds issued a statement Friday through spokesman Jeff Diamond, a former president of the NFL's Tennessee Titans, that they have suspended their work on current legislation to use sales tax to help the team finance the ballpark.
Diamond said the Sounds are working to extend their current lease at Greer Stadium, which opened in 1978 and doesn't meet Triple-A standards, to keep the park acceptable. Team officials will keep working for a "first-class" ballpark for the future of baseball in Nashville.The Sounds had a deal with Nashville government in October 2005 to build a $43 million stadium on the banks of the Cumberland River with adjacent land developed for retail and private housing to finance the project, but that deal fell through because of financing issues.
Watch This StoryThe Triple-A team had hoped to move into a new ballpark in 2009.The Sounds issued a statement Friday through spokesman Jeff Diamond, a former president of the NFL's Tennessee Titans, that they have suspended their work on current legislation to use sales tax to help the team finance the ballpark.|
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