IN RESPONSE to Paul McMorrow’s Jan. 17 op-ed “Baseball’s a bad call at Malden site,’’ I would make the following comments as the person who has proposed the ballpark development.
Like McMorrow, our group does not subscribe to a naive “silver bullet’’ theory of urban redevelopment. We believe that our proposed ballpark is a very good redevelopment use for a contaminated site on which residential development is inappropriate, not the “regressive use’’ McMorrow terms it to be.
As to what has gone wrong elsewhere, every city faces a different set of challenges. We believe that in Malden the availability of Orange Line public transportation across the street, readily available public parking, and easy highway access to a strong regional fan base would be instrumental to our long-term (again, not overnight) success. The National Grid site in Malden has all of those ingredients.
