Charlotte Knights General Manager Dan Rajkowski has homerun-sized plans for an empty, underutilized piece of property in uptown. The Knights lease a lot on South Mint Street from Mecklenburg County. For now, it’s just an open, grassy field with security lights scattered throughout. Someday, Rajkowski hopes there will be a baseball park on the site, [...]
Qualifying for a loan in today’s economic environment is a daunting task for many. For the Charlotte Knights, it is the next mountain to climb in order for the minor league baseball team to build a new stadium in uptown on county-owned land. The team has little more than a year to start construction on [...]
The Charlotte Knights have slain the lawsuit dragon delaying their new stadium in uptown. Now, the Triple-A ball club must convince some skeptical Mecklenburg County commissioners that the project is still a good use of the land. In their pitch, the Knights are pointing to Indianapolis, a city about 440 miles away, and what they [...]