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HistoricalSecurity77 t1_iwbifme wrote

It’s not only the Ball Park… lots of reasons, including high cost of food service items, and inflation, have eroded the razor thin profit margins. Also, most places can’t find staff and owners are working 65-80 hour weeks to make up for it.

Parking is obviously an issue… but the ball park is only open for home games 70-something days a year.

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guybehindawall t1_iwcbff1 wrote

Basically all of it can be tracked back to Covid, which led to the high costs/inflation and staffing issues, as well as a sharp drop-off in restaurant traffic, which is going weirdly underdiscussed.

The ballpark is probably getting too much attention as a cause of these closures, buuuut the city did pay $160m for something that is, at the very least, not helping the businesses we were told they would.

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