Orlando City stadium construction thread

In seriousness though, the Citrus Bowl could be turf for their temp home next season. I know they switched to turf a few years ago, but not sure if they'll continue to use turf after the renovation, or maybe hold off until OCSC's new stadium is built.

 

I think it's cute that the team is going to pretend to use input from fans to design the stadium. Good move.

 

DC fans invented being salty.

 

Yep. That's it. Acknowledging a PR move as a PR move is me being salty because I'm a fan of DC.

 

Well, look, Seattle invented everything else, so you should be proud that DC can claim something.

 

DC invented the MLS Dynasty.........but somewhere along the way we lost the Patent.

;-)

 

At least Orlando City had fans before MLS. Hell I give Sounders fans shit for a lot of things including the fact they got more bandwagon fans when they joined MLS. But compared to Miami, Atlanta, NY2..... Orlando and Seattle at least have/had something to build upon. I feel a bit for Miami Fusion fans in the past, but the overall market is watching EPL and La Liga in that city.

Atlanta is SEC football
Miami is Euro football fans
NYC mostly Euro football fans


Those 3 markets have to get new fans to the game or convert these people who only watch European football. TV market size is great, owners get their money but they have work to do.

 

Welcome to MLS.

Every initially chosen market and the entire league faced basically the exact same conditions in 1996. And things seem to be going along fairly well for the business overall.

 

No it isn't.

They're not actually trying to copy you asshats. I was pointing out that they are into the whole assault and scarf/banner stealing thing...and are massive dicks to everyone (including the Ruckus, which is the other big group in Orlando).

More like middle-class whitey trying to be hard.

 

*Tips Fedora*

 

Orlando City SC (@OrlandoCitySC)
4/21/14, 10:04 AM
BREAKING: The club will play the entire 2015 season in the Citrus Bowl, moving in 2016 to downtown soccer stadium bit.ly/1kSsaaW

 

It is interesting that after I got jumped on for passing on info that someone in this thread gave me (stadium land negotiations are still going on and stadium not designed yet) no one has offered any other info. So is the info that I was given correct or incorrect? I do not know the status and can only go by what I find online and in this thread. I am sure many of you have a lot of knowledge on the subject. Please enlighten us.

 

There's a lot of people that think Architecture these days is typing the number of rooms you want in a building into a computer and it's spits out a finished design in 45 minutes

 

I guess I just got my answer. Looks like the info that was presented is accurate. I really thought this was done.

"Due to delays in the City of Orlando’s acquisition of land required for the downtown, soccer-specific stadium, the Lions also announced they will play the entire 2015 MLS season in the Florida Citrus Bowl."

http://www.orlandocitysoccer.com/news/?article_id=1815

 

If you are trying to say that I think that you are wrong. The whole reason I brought it up is because I know the stadium design takes a long time and will require city/county approval. I stated this in previous posts. The fact that I know it takes a long time is the reason I am concerned that this whole situation had been presented as a completely done deal and that they were just waiting to break ground. It is very surprising to me they don't appear to be further along on the design than what they are revealing. It seems very late in the game to just be starting the design process. Again I don't know this to be fact, but that is what the team is making it sound like.

 

That is all it takes to make a weather forecast these days and meteorologist try to make us think they are outside taking readings and running formulas, etc. We all know architects are pulling the same thing.

 

The stadium holdup is all about that one church, right?

 

Well.

http://www.thejournal.ie/houses-3d-printing-1416773-Apr2014/

Ten houses built in 24 hours? All is possible with 3D printing
A Chinese company printed the houses out of recycled material.

 

I was supporting your position, jerkweed. Jesus, not every one of my posts is a carpet bombing mission

Depends on how much pre-construction investigation & preliminary design has has been done to this point. Depending on what the City/County has enacted, there is very little of the visual "design" that most cities can review, unless the building is going in a special district and what they review is structural & building/life safety and conformance with established codes

 

Yeah, the Faith Deliverance Temple:

http://goo.gl/maps/SMFe8

 

Jeez. I'm not typically for this on principle, but EMINENT DOMAIN THAT MOTHER.

 

Seriously. The City of Orlando offered $1.5 million, which is over twice the appraised value of $600,000. The church owners say they want $40 million.