The Atlanta Braves hired public affairs consultants Tom McNicholas and Rachel Ondrus as lobbyists for the team; McNicholas was key in Palm Beach County and West Palm Beach landing a joint training camp for the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros and has been working on that project in recent months. Source: Ballpark Digest
She works for the McNicholas firm and for Palm Beach County. The Palm Beach County Legislative Delegation Office is a nonpartisan office that serves all thirteen members of the Florida Senate and House of Representatives who represent Palm Beach County in Tallahassee.
Tom McNicholas is the president and founder of McNicholas & Associates, a Stuart, Florida-based firm that specializes in public relations, governmental affairs, and marketing. His web site says, Over the years, the McNicholas & Associates team has been privileged to work with a diverse group of national and local, private and public companies, organizations, agencies and municipalities. Click here for client sampling.
Some of his friends on Facebook are Greg Rice and Shelley Vana
Works for baseball. Works for the county. Do you think the deck is stacked against those who oppose?
ReplyDeleteRice has his hands in all pots.
ReplyDeleteGreg Rice is a marketing professional. It shouldn't be a surprise that he knows him.
ReplyDeleteWow! That must be one very big bed to fit all of these players in it ! John Prince Park is a public Park.Destruction of public park land should never be acceptable. There must be better sites around the county and the east coast of Florida. One that comes to mind is the old Jai Alai property.
ReplyDeletejohn prince park is a better location than 45th st. they are already building a stadium near 45th st. hope the lights, traffic and crowd noise don't keep the good folks at roloh up at night.
ReplyDeleteThe Jai Alai fronton is a great suggestion, plenty of room for parking in close proximity to Tri-Rail. Previously used as a sports attraction so roads and traffic capacity should be manageable. And my recollection is that land was discussed when the locations were being scouted for the WPB stadium which is in the other direction on 45th street. It is a great piece of land for this project.
ReplyDeleteWhat about putting Lantana on the map, there is a big land space where they had an old hospital on Lantana Road just east of the Publix and I95 that would be a great place for that stadium.
ReplyDeleteI believe the Lantana development plans are pretty far along and the developer rejected the idea of including ball park, ball fields are included as was required when the hospital was torn down and sold off to developer.
ReplyDeleteThe old AG Holley site on Lantana will be residential housing -apt, condos and town homes... Already in the approval process, so you can forget about that site.
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