Parks Board Unanimous to Swing the Wrecking Ball at Roberts Stadium

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Today the Evansville Parks Board voted 5-0 to raze Roberts Stadium.

Mayor Winnecke has proposed the demolition of Roberts, followed by the construction of a new park called Roberts Park that would contain a skate-board park, dog park, a lake and fitness areas for adults and children.

Winnecke has estimated Roberts Park with all of the amenities would cost $6 million to $8 million but has not released any quotes to back up the estimate. The Mayor has also not divulged the source of any dollars that would be used in converting these 37 acres to a park increasing the parkland in Evansville to 2,337 acres.

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  1. Hop aboard the Panama Limited for Memphis and points south. The train has left the building. Chooooo choooooooooo

    • Agreed! This is just all starting to rev up. Wait as you go along this ride….THAT is why I’m Traveling when possible, the next few years. There is only so much a mind can deflect when other folks are being Idiots. I’d rather be around folks that are Thinking, who think outside the box, who like to achieve GREATER things than C Average stuff that is NOT good–but to them ONLY in their minds, and I like being around Achievers of Great things. LOL!!! This Lady is going to make a LOT of Money and Travel this year! After some nutcapades are out of the way—ONWARD to what make sense and what is Good and muchly Deserved. A Multi-Functional building with the other proposed items could have fit nicely on that property. Who is kidding who. Not the Masses, they aren’t. Agreed, where is the Money coming from to do this Roberts Park. Short sighted folks, indeed. Cheers! Good Luck!

  4. What idiots!!! They should made it into a convention center. Just last friday downtown should have changed their minds with the JW Convention. Parking WAS HORRIBLE; ORGANIZATION WAS HORRIBLE!!!! And this is WHY Winnecke should NOT have been voted in as the Mayor, he is just like Weinzapfel!!

  5. Past Mayor tells present Mayor what to do!

    Watch the $80 million dollar Johnson Control water reading deal unfold.

    Past Mayor tells present Mayor what to do!

    Present Mayor is nothing more or less then a political puppet of “Johnny Boy”!

    Ladies and gents you are looking at a first and last term Mayor of Mayor W. unfold!

    Eric Williams shall be the next Mayor of E-ville!

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