YOUR CITY COLUMBUS :: RACE TRACK TO REPLACE COOPER STADIUM?!?
The home of the Columbus Clippers — called everything from The Coop to Jets Stadium since 1931 — might become a small Thunder Valley.
“All the stars have to align,” one county official noted.
Franklin County’s deal to sell its old ballpark to Arshot Investment Corp. for $3.3 million could take 17 months to close and hinges on contractual “ifs” that could kill the deal. Among the contingencies: Arshot wants a 100 percent tax abatement for 10 years from Columbus.
But both seller and prospective buyer envision a motorsports complex with nice restaurants and a speedway, drag strip and go-kart track that would lure hot-rod races, car clubs and rallies.
They liken the proposed half-mile track to a scaled-down version of the Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee, a NASCAR-Sprint Cup track nicknamed Thunder Valley. Race-car speeds at these half-mile-around tracks can reach 125 mph. Drag racers go even faster on their quarter-mile strip.
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