Ballard Partners inks Washington Nationals amid West Palm Beach stadium land deal
Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals have opted to retain Ballard Partners to represent them in Tallahassee this legislative session as the club navigates a tricky land proposal requiring city, county and state cooperation. The Nats — along with the Houston Astros, who have also hired Ballard — are pursuing a delicate and process-intensive initiative that would redesignate a tract of Palm Beach County land currently protected by Florida’s Water Catchment Act in order to build a joint spring training facility there. The land was recently…