The city constructed a waterfront stadium for its new team, appropriately called Lane Field, replacing a race track that was on the site.
And, please, can they stop building waterfront stadiums?
The Rays shelved plans for a waterfront stadium in late 2008 and began a process of considering other locations, further clouding the future of Progress Energy Park.
The Atlantic League plans a team in Camden, to start in a new waterfront stadium in the spring of 2000.
And around Camden, "you've got literally millions of people within a 25-minute ring," said David Brandt, attorney for the investors who are planning a waterfront stadium there.
It would also, they say, spur economic redevelopment near the stadium reminiscent of that around Baltimore's waterfront stadium.
On 10 November 2006, the New Zealand Government announced its preference for a waterfront stadium to be built over Marsden and Captain Cook wharves.
If you don't catch a fly ball, you can at least catch some fab Manhattan skyline views from the stylish waterfront stadium.
In 2011 Bob Lenarduzzi confirmed that the team is now committed to BC Place, and that plans for the waterfront stadium have been put on hold.
But, referring to Bridgeport's new waterfront stadium, he said, "It's hard to compete with a new $20 million ballpark with every fan amenity imaginable."