By: Steven
As much as I like soccer I sure dont support MLS screwing over the tax payers out of parkland. I wont support soccers version of the Yankees or new jersey nets! They better replace that land before I...
View ArticleBy: Art Vandelay
Even if there’s really no option but to use parkland, I’m assuming this will be like the Yankees’ deal, which means MLS wouldn’t even have to pay for the land or the swing sets to replace the parkland....
View ArticleBy: Keith
$300M for an MLS stadium? And paid for by the “ownership group”? That just can’t be right.
View ArticleBy: Bob Dobalina
I don’t know why people are worried about the parkland. A lot of the site where the stadium is going is a stank, stagnant pool of water. Putting a stadium there will be a welcome improvement.
View ArticleBy: David Brown
I really think this will be happening, and it is only part of what is planned. When you see Sheldon Silver on board with the idea of Casinos at Willets Point, you know MLS is just the tip of the...
View ArticleBy: Neil deMause
The MLS stadium wouldn’t go anywhere near Willets Point, though. Unless you’re suggesting that the Flushing Meadows plan is a stalking horse and MLS ultimately wants to go in Willets.
View ArticleBy: John Bladen
Art, I agree. The railyards proposal might not be that much more expensive in the end. We know it was expected to cost more, but then, developing previously undeveloped land can often cost a great deal...
View ArticleBy: Neil deMause
The Sunnyside Yards are in Queens, John, not far from Long Island City. Mammoth swath of open-air railyards that everyone with a big project always sniffs around (it’s been proposed for an Olympic...
View ArticleBy: John Bladen
Ok, thanks Neil. I thought the Jets had referred to their ‘over the rails’ plan (or off?) by a different name, but wasn’t sure. I have a general familiarity with the railyards in LIC from other...
View ArticleBy: Neil deMause
Jets were Hudson Yards. Which is still supposed to get a platform, now with residential towers on top of it, though I haven’t heard anything about construction being imminent.
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