Interesting NYT article on the fate of 103-year-old Centennial Field, home to the Class A New York-Penn League franchise Vermont Lake Monsters. MLB has demanded that $7 million in improvements be made to the stadium — otherwise the Lake Monsters will move.

The similar debate here in Greensboro is old news — the new downtown stadium has been successful, although development surrounding it has been nonexistent. But the City Council is still trying to figure out what to do with 83-year-old War Memorial Stadium.

Note that council member Robbie Perkins “led the attack” on acting City Manager Bob Morgan’s proposals, “slamming them as badly thought out attempts to recapture the stadium’s past, rather than creating something that people would actually use in the future.” One of Morgan’s proposals was “a $5.4 million plan to add interior and exterior plazas and an enclosed, heated, 16,000-square-foot curb market to the stadium,” which seems like a reasonable compromise considering the fact that the popular Farmers Curb Market across the street has outgrown its space.

I’m not sure what Perkins has in mind, but what could he have in mind that would be something people could use in the future while preserving the stadium’s historic structure, something residents of the Aycock neighborhood believe is not open to compromise?