City of Glendale (AZ) facing legal action from White Sox and Dodgers over locker rooms.

[TheLegend]

With the Coyotes no longer in Glendale, what has always been the bigger gorilla in the room now becomes apparent.

The White Sox and Dodgers are about to sue Glendale over who should provide locker rooms to accommodate their female staff members at Camelback Ranch spring training facility.

Glendale owns and operates the facility and the MLB teams each pay $1 per year to lease the facility and only receives the sales taxes generated (by agreement with the City of Phoenix).

CR was built in 2009 on $200 million in bonds and the city still owes nearly $170 million on them.

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[IU Hawks fan]

Want something new for the ballpark? Make the State of Illinois, or in this case Glendale, pay for it. That's the Reinsdorf way!

 

[tarheelhockey]

With the Coyotes no longer in Glendale, what has always been the bigger gorilla in the room now becomes apparent.

Can you elaborate? Payment for a locker room seems like a really minor issue compared to the Coyotes saga.

 

[TheLegend]

Can you elaborate? Payment for a locker room seems like a really minor issue compared to the Coyotes saga.

Unlike the return they got from the Coyotes playing at Westgate, the deal at Camelback Ranch is not Glendale friendly.

The only return Glendale gets is the sales taxes generated by food and merchandise sales at the park. Even that didn't kick in until 3-4 years into the deal because the facility is actually within the city of Phoenix, and Phoenix received the taxes those first few years.

Glendale was also responsible for upgrades in and around the park. Which included paying $1 million plus for a new video main field scoreboard a few short years ago and more recently road improvements.. Unlike Westgate, development around CR hasn't happened and even if it did, most of it sits within Phoenix city limits.

Not all of this is on Glendale.... the Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority (AZSTA) was supposed to provide funds for some of the costs of building the park and some upgrades. But they haven't come through. The priority has been State Farm Stadium (Cardinals) the past few years and upgrade to other older MLB Cactus League facilities. City of Goodyear has also in the same predicament as well. Their facility and Glendale's were the last two to be built and have been left out to dry.