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When looking at metro markets, The two largest metropolitan areas without a major leagues sports franchises are:
-the Hampton Roads area in Virginia (Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Newport News, Hampton, Portsmouth)
-the Piedmont Triad metro in North Carolina (Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point)
both these metros have over 1.6 million people making them the largest metro regions in the country with a major league sports franchise. The two largest cities in both metros are Greensboro and Norfolk.
Greensboro has a population on 270,000 people and Norfolk has a population of 243,000. Greensboro is actually bigger than Orlando, Fl in city population.
The Piedmont Triad does have "big league" sports events. The PGA Tour stops in Greensboro at the Wyndham Championship and Winston-Salem is on the U.S. Open Tennis Tour with the Winston-Salem Open.
There was a failed attempt to move the Minnesota Twins to the Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point, NC area in the late 1990s. Renderings of a major league baseball stadium to be built between Greensboro and Winston-Salem were drawn up and there was a referendum vote in the region for a prepared food tax to pay for the stadium. Greensboro was the base home of the ABA Carolina Cougars in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The team folded before the ABA and NBA merged. Former ABA teams like the Indiana Pacers survived the move to the NBA.
If San Antonio wants NFL, their gonna have to do something with the Alamodome.... OR build a new stadium.
Yeah San Antonio fate is in their's own hands , they can either man up and build a new stadium , or talk a pipe dream of them getting a NFL team without a brand spankling new NFL approved stadium ( that will never happen).
Yeah San Antonio fate is in their's own hands , they can either man up and build a new stadium , or talk a pipe dream of them getting a NFL team without a brand spankling new NFL approved stadium ( that will never happen).
Would you say that San Antonio building a new Dome is about as likely as one going up in California? I don't think so. Despite all of the hype, hullaballoo and just plain bs coming out of California when it comes to building a new stadium, one has not been built there in over 40 years. And I don't see one going up out there anytime soon either.
San Antonio on the other hand is capable of housing any NFL team today. As in now. Not four years from now. Plus I can almost guarantee you that funding and building a new Dome in San Antonio would go off without a hitch, or a lawsuit for that matter. It's been done before all over Texas.
Would you say that San Antonio building a new Dome is about as likely as one going up in California? I don't think so. Despite all of the hype, hullaballoo and just plain bs coming out of California when it comes to building a new stadium, one has not been built there in over 40 years. And I don't see one going up out there anytime soon either.
San Antonio on the other hand is capable of housing any NFL team today. As in now. Not four years from now. Plus I can almost guarantee you that funding and building a new Dome in San Antonio would go off without a hitch, or a lawsuit for that matter. It's been done before all over Texas.
Action is worth more than TALK....let's see about that my friend.....
Maybe not a football stadium in CA - but there have been arenas built there such as
HP Pavilion in SJ
Honda Center
Petco Park
AT&T Park (no public funds for park, however they did receive $10M tax abatement and $80M for infrastructure around the stadium)
Staples Center (privately financed)
So there has been some activity - some private, some public, some mixed to various degrees ... not to mention a variety of upgrades, etc
Definitely way too early to call a slam dunk and there have been more rumors than viable plans - i think there is enough potential cash not only from the stadium/team operation, but from developing a "district" that something will get completed in LA at some point in the relatively near future
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