It's time to retire Cashman Field and its metal bleacher benches as a ballyard.

For the Love of Wally Backman, Build That Triple A Ballpark in Summerlin Already

By ALAN SNEL Dear Howard Hughes Corporation, What are you guys waiting for? You realize every year you wait to build a new 51s ballpark next to Downtown Summerlin means the most patient man in America -- 51s President Don Logan -- has to roll out the ol’ “sewage-at-Cashman” tale as his graphic go-to, fallback story about why Cashman is a sad excuse of a Triple A ballyard in a tough neighborhood. This is a no-brainer. Build the 51s new ball yard along Pavilion Center Drive in Summerlin. Howard Hughes, you own: 1. The 51s 2. the land along Pavilion Center Drive where the 51s stadium is going to be built 3. Summerlin, the super-duper west valley development area that will host the ballpark 4. Downtown Summerlin, which is a nice feeder of fans who can stroll across the street to the new ball yard. There it is -- Howard Hughes-owned land to build a Howard Hughes-owned Triple A ballpark
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Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.