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So the Kingsbridge National Ice Center (KNIC) in the Bronx finally got approved, now a New Soccer stadium may be built in the Bronx as well. Very excited with all the investments happening in the Bronx. Change is in the air!!! It's just a matter of time.
New York's newest Major League Soccer team is reportedly very close to finding a permanent home. Capital New York got their hands on the details of a deal that would have the New York City Football Club, a franchise co-owned by the Yankees and Manchester City owner and Abu Dhabi royalty Sheik Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, build a new stadium near Yankee Stadium. The 10-acre site includes three bankrupt parking facilities, a portion of 153rd Street, and a commercial building that holds a 400-person elevator company. The club would likely pay $25 million to the Bronx Parking Development, which defaulted on a $237 million loan, and they are in talks to buy out the elevator parts company and relocate it. Negotiations are still underway and no one would comment on the possible deal.
The $350 million development would be financed with city-issued tax-exempt bonds, and the club would get $21.5 million in tax waivers. A 99-year lease would be signed, and only after 38 years would the club start paying the city market rate rent. Involved parties hope to reach a deal by spring 2014 so the public review process could be finished by summer 2015. If all goes as they hope, the 28,000-seat venue would be ready for matches in spring 2018. Until then, the team will play at Yankee Stadium.
The ever-popular SHoP Architects created a preliminary designs of what a MLS stadium in New York could look like, but the club has apparently swapped the firm for another well-known name: Rafael Vinoly Architects. Vinoly is best known in New York for his skyscraper designs (22 Thames and 432 Park), but he has a few sports venues in his portfolio; the Beijing National Swimming Center and the Princeton University Stadium are both Vinoly creations.
Originally, the new soccer stadium was proposed for a part of Flushing Meadows Corona Park, but strong community opposition to losing more parkland made MLS look elsewhere. So Queens, it's pretty safe to say you're in the clear on this one.
Last edited by hilltopjay; 12-11-2013 at 01:05 PM..
It's all good for the Bronx, it can use investment and love. If you build it, it will come, eventually right ? What NYC MLS team would it be, the Cosmos ?
It's all good for the Bronx, it can use investment and love. If you build it, it will come, eventually right ? What NYC MLS team would it be, the Cosmos ?
The taxpayers are paying $350 million for a stadium? So a billionaire can have a free venue for his team to play in so we have the privilege to pay pay $10.75 for a beer in a stadium that we paid for? How is this a good thing if you are not the billionaire or a player from palookaville?
It's all good for the Bronx, it can use investment and love. If you build it, it will come, eventually right ? What NYC MLS team would it be, the Cosmos ?
Cosmos decided that they don't want to join MLS yet and are in Long Island in the minor leagues, for now.
Playing to empty seats at Yankee Stadium is not going to be very inspiring. This is a much smaller venue only 28,000 capacity. Maybe the tenants from the few nearby tenements can watch the game free from the upper floors and roof.
If the team is good and the tix are cheap, 50,000 New Yorkers will watch soccer.
The Seattle MLS team has their own 67,000 seat stadium. And nowhere near NY's diversity.
If that's the case why not build a bigger soccer stadium then? It would pay off pretty fast.
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