From the Wall Street Journal:
After a wide search, Major League Soccer officials have zeroed in on a run-down section of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens as their preferred site for the league's first New York stadium, according to multiple officials briefed on the matter.
In recent weeks, top MLS officials have presented a detailed proposal to local politicians, outlining a plan for a 20,000- to 25,000-seat stadium on roughly eight acres near the northern end of the park.
The plan, still in its nascent stages, would create a home for a brand-new league team, as yet unnamed. The league believes construction could be completed one to two years after the project receives the necessary approvals, according to officials briefed on the plans.
The move is perhaps surprising given that MLS opened the $220 million Red Bull Arena in Harrison, N.J., in 2010.
But landing a stadium in New York City—a media capital and an ethnically diverse urban center—would be a significant boost to the league's international stature. Founded in 1993, the professional league comprises 19 teams, 16 in the U.S. and three in Canada.
As part of the proposal, MLS would also refurbish public soccer fields on the site and create a cricket field and volleyball courts, according to people familiar with the plans.
14 comments:
Build your stadium in Willets Point and leave our park alone!
Let them buy private land from private owner for a private purpose at a price determined by the market.
This is park land and it belongs to all of us.
Bad Bad Bad Idea!
Hey, why take park land away from the public?
Let them buy part of the old Flushing airport and build the soccer stadium there.
Let them buy part of the old Flushing airport and build the soccer stadium there.
FEDERALLY PROTECTED WETLANDS
(but with the Bloomtard administration, anything's possible.)
Queens just doesn't have enough traffic problems. Bring it on...
NOT!
Let them buy private land from private owner for a private purpose at a price determined by the market.
This is park land and it belongs to all of us.
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Absolutely correct but the pols know that, unique to democracies, the American public doesn't care what happens in government
and anyone who stands up will have his allies soon crowing for the stadium once the ice cream truck shows up and the Crowleys and Staviskys start to buy cones on the house.
It's official!!!
Toby Stavisky is a blithering idiot! Check this out:
http://queens.ny1.com/content/top_stories/163912/major-league-soccer-eyes-stadium-in-flushing
Stupid idea!
Nobody gives a dam about soccer in the USA aside a small number euro-trash.
The city should restore the fountains, pump house and lightshow.
Perhaps a roll up screen to show movies on weekends.
It cost far less then a stadium and a treat for taxpayers.
stop crying people, all of you that are crying think baseball is a sport..
"In recent weeks, top MLS officials have presented a detailed proposal to local politicians, outlining a plan for a 20,000- to 25,000-seat stadium on roughly eight acres near the northern end of the park."
That's how it will start. Then it will expand to 50,000 seats. Mark my words!
Anonymous said...
stop crying people, all of you that are crying think baseball is a sport..
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Your favorite sport must be pulling your head out of your ass over and over again. TROLL!!!
They are looking at a run down section? I thought the entire FMCP is run down!!
at least it's a sport...
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