Groundbreaking today for DCU's new stadium, Audi Field at Buzzard Point. This is will be fun. http://www.dcunited.com/post/2017/02/27/united-officially-break-ground-audi-field
Does anyone actually have pictures of the construction site? Politicians with shovels doesn't mean much to me. will there be a webcam?
Ready for construction. From the Washington Post, Feb. 12th (right before the final zoning board approval vote): “With permission granted Thursday, United would have the green light to begin applying for building permits Friday and commence construction in earnest within weeks. A formal groundbreaking involving city, team and league officials would mark the occasion at the end of the month. As Mike Schoenbrun, the club’s chief revenue officer, said, ‘We can begin to go vertical.’”
Orlando's opens today! 5:00pm ET on The Mothership. Programming note: apparently 28 minutes of pre-game festivities, 5:28 kickoff.
Enjoy your day! met 1 of @OrlandoCitySC owners few yrs back at match in Seattle...thought: "right proper club he is building" 2day is big step #WelcomeHome— Toarea Fan 🇨🇦 (@TOareaFan) March 5, 2017
If Minnesota get Orlando type numbers this season, will they make Orlando style changes to their stadium plan?
Orlando finished one point out of the playoffs in our first season. There was more than 5-1 type drubbing in there, though. I think it is a Heath trademark.
Does anyone know the estimated completion date for DC, Minnesota and LA stadiums? It appears LA will be done first. Has actual construction started in DC or Minnesota yet?
One of the unfortunate things about a new stadium is that it can have the effect of "locking" the league into an undesirable market that draws embarrassingly low numbers (12k, 13k, 14k) or is in terminal decline. Once the stadium gets built, you're stuck with that market for ages. Not referring to any market in particular, just a general observation.
DC United's Audi Field webcam is up. Sort of. Be very still - the slightest movement and everyone freezes. http://www.dcunited.com/audi-field
Building a new stadium can inject some excitement into the fanbase. These teams are locked into their market regardless. With teams creating academies, the roots are going to deep into the community to just pack up and go like the Chargers did. Moving an NFL team is like picking up a house, moving an MLS team is like moving a tree.
Depends on the trendlines, I guess. In a hypothetical example where a team used to be an attendance leader but has decayed to the point of utter irrelevance, it could be an embarrassing look.
I'm not sure if this train of discussion is appropriate for this thread, but I will say that the location of a stadium is seldom the problem. It is almost always a problem with the owner and relocating a team will not resolve the owner problem...
This is part of what I worry about. What if a hypothetical team had lackluster absentee ownership and a fickle front-running fanbase, and then placed its stadium on the other side of a large natural obstacle from the rest of the urban area? If we ever have a situation like that, it could be a recipe for failure.
Hypothetically, what if a poster was involved in a discussion in which a moderator asked that rivalry discussions be stopped, but said poster decided that if he spoke in hypotheticals, he could restart the same rivalry discussion in the same thread a month later.. Hypothetically, what do you think might happen to this poster if they don't stop immediately?