Salt Lake City revealed its bid for a Major League Baseball franchise last week. How does it compare to its top competition in Portland? Tribune data columnist AndyBLarsen breaks it down.
So let’s take Vegas out of the picture. Just comparing the Salt Lake City and Portland bids, which is stronger?By nearly any calculation, Portland just has more people than Salt Lake City. The specific cities themselves aren’t particularly close: Salt Lake City barely cleared the 200,000 bar with a 2021 population estimate of 200,478, while Portland has a 641,162 population in that same year.
Portland’s television market is larger than Salt Lake City’s — even though it includes all of Utah. As of 2023, Portland has 1,143,670 TV households in its designated media area, while Salt Lake City has 916,960 households.Salt Lake City has a defined, preferred build site with substantial stakeholder support: the Power District. The 100-acre property is along North Temple and sits across from the Utah State Fairpark. It’s not in the downtown, central business district — it’s about 2.
Portland, meanwhile, hasn’t narrowed its search down to one site. The Diamond Project has scouted a dozen Portland sites, some downtown, some in the suburbs. The most commonly discussed site is called “Terminal 1 and Terminal 2″ — an industrial area right on the Willamette River. It sits just outside downtown to the north , and with some imagination, it’s a picturesque location. But there essentially aren’t any major transportation routes to the site now, either by public transit or by highway.
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