Citizen Solicits Ideas for Roberts Stadium: A Plea from Martha Crosley

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TO ALL CITIZENS OF THE EVANSVILLE AREA WHO HAVE FELT THAT THEIR VIEWS ARE NOT HEARD – NOW IS YOUR CHANCE!

The Wesselman Park/Roberts Stadium baseball complex issue won’t die.

The CVB is still actively pushing it.

But there are those who are not standing still. Wesselman Park Support Group is establishing a committee of the public, business people, and office holders in the Evansville area who will meet to consider the possible uses for Roberts Stadium, its land, and funding for considered projects. These individuals are creative, informed, innovative, and most importantly want to listen to your ideas.

To express your opinions to this committee, please answer the following questions and email or send to the address below:
1. What is your best idea for the use of Roberts Stadium?
2. How would you propose to fund this idea?
3. If Roberts Stadium proves to have engineering or structural problems too big to overcome, how best would you like to see the land used?

Please be specific and email to: wesselmanroberts@gmail.com or send to Wesselman/Roberts, c/o Huppert, 2424 Stringtown Rd., Evansville, IN 47711

You MUST provide your name, address, and contact information for your views to reach the committee. We value your ideas and want you to be a part of the democratic process. Thanks in advance for your help. Tell your friends and family so that everyone who wishes may take the opportunity to participate.

Here’s to slowing down the train! It is time to think and plan carefully. No further consideration should be given to the CVB until more data is gathered, more ideas reviewed, and more comparative plans are brought to the table. How do we know we have the best plan if we only have one?

Martha Crosley

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6 COMMENTS

  1. Good possibility that with a New and Honest Mayor elected in 2011, that the CVB make-up may change and a different focus will emerge, as well as the Citizen imput Martha Crosley represents will be given serious consideration. We are looking for consenus here and not the, “public be d___” , view of our “wolf in sheeps clothing”–King John.

    • Thanks for responding, crash, but we need solid ideas, rather than just “Attaboys.” If you have any good suggestions as to where the fate of Roberts goes from here, send them! Don’t forget to include the source of any funding that your idea might need. “We ought to do this,” or “We ought to do that” isn’t good enough any more. Now we need to focus on HOW to do this or that. It’s easy to do with the instructions above, and the e-mail address is there, too. We look forward to hearing from you.

  3. Is closing CVB, totally shutting down that entire department, for a defined period of time an option?

    I say, let CVB keep pushing it…

    And let every politician be forced on the record each time.

  4. Sure, there are great uses of that property which are much more fitting with surrounding land use. One is simply to have Wesselman jointly develop the old stadium with the local Master Garden’s group. The capital investment would be to simply rework the roof for appropriate lighting. Then make the facility a local botanical center. The seating can demostrate raised beds in a terraced fashion. Sections can be used for different types of plantings. The core view to the public would be “green” in the classical botanical sense.

    Next, “green” moves to environmental demonstrations. Here the mechanical and storage areas can be racked for battery storage with smooth energy instant backup and consistent amps/volts. That becomes an incubator for businesses who have those demands like a data center. A data center with a collaborative development deal then provides the computational resources for “smart green” developments; zone control, optimal switching, most cost effective source real-time optimization, etc. Related green design and environmental design businesses align for the demonstation area access and public display combined with the data center and electronic backbone strength.

    We can engage many related ideas in parallel. The connection of the site to the old state hospital land. Its potential for UE Science program demonstration and student projects. Proximity to the traffic on Green River to loop public transportation routes through a shopping corridor-green corridor. The list goes on and on!

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