"Put a lid on it!": Wizards Stadium Thread v.08.03

http://web.mlsnet.com/news/team_new...t_id=182390&vkey=news_kcw&fext=.jsp&team=t105

broder just posted this in N&A.

 

More encouraging than the KCBJ article.

"It's likely you'll hear from us in the near future," said Cotton. "We're moving the process forward. The reason you haven't heard from us is because everything is going well. If things were going poorly, you'd hear a lot from us."


I guess sometimes it's good for those higher up to be eternally optimistic (besides CO, I mean ).

 

A little tidbit from the article:

 

oh yeah, all the move KC people are back out of course...

 

yeah, the st. louis choads are the best. they spout about a city who's had two mls approved investors when their own can't even get one. soccer city usa over there, folks. can you feel it?

EDIT: and now that i've read that thread over there, i see that el jefe beat me to this line of thought. oh well, it just shows that the view is evident to even outsiders.

 

This is the part I don't understand: the vote in Missouri was for $10 million, right? So how can the DED approve $30 million? Wouldn't it have to go back to Jeff City to vote on the newly requested amount?

 

Great question. I don't think the Development Finance Board can approve $30 mil, although I think they can recommend that the Department add the extra to next year's budget request. However, I don't think that will bung up the stadium, because it looks like the $30 million is for the total project - stadium, fields, and hotel/retail. The initial $10 million is presumably only for the first phase of the project, the stadium.

If the Finance Board grants the application for the $10 mil, the Department of Economic Development will have to ask for the extra $20 mil in next year's budget and the legislature will have to approve that amount next year. But we'd still have the $10 mil for the stadium even if the legislature doesn't approve the extra $20 mil for the tournament fields, hotel and retail.

 

damn dude... are you trying to get it delayed further? don't give 'em any ideas. just let 'em pass it and turn a blind eye.

 

Anybody else a bit confused/frustrated when St. Louis, who doesn't even have an MLS team, is able and willing to lay their design concepts in public view, while the WIZ keep their vision beneath a rock?

http://www.stlouissoccerunited.com/images/soccer_slideshow.html

I'm just sayin'.

 

Not really, because I expect their design to change the same way every MLS stadium's design has changed before construction has actually started. I'm under the opinion that while I'd like to see it we'll see it when we see it. And when we do we can all bitch about it then like we always do.

I mean this was TFC's original design.


Early Colorado design


Even Red Bull Park(Arena) has changed some.

 

So, the design is going to change. We ALL know that. It's already changed.

So, what's your point?

We can bitch now as easily as we can after-the-fact.

 

Wow, Toronto has really wide roads.

*goes back into hiding*

 

We released some renderings too. If you go to the Three Trails website you can see them. Just because they are releasing some designs doesnt mean that the stadium will look anything remotely close to what they actual build.

Would you want the team to release some design that isnt finalized? I dont understand that. I only want to see the rendering that is as close to the finished product as it will get before being built.

 

Is that a grass berm I spy?

But in all seriousness, if you're like me and have trained your brain to think/know that the new stadium won't be ready until 2011 then you don't except to see the design anytime soon and the wait is acceptable.

I mean, you really think we can build a stadium before World Cup 2010? Look how far SA is and we're still questioning if they'll be ready. (larger stadiums, I know, but my point, and forced thought process, still remains)

 

I expect it to be ready mid-2010... if they were going to break ground in March/June/whatever and make it by open 2010 then I don't see why delaying the ground breaking 6 months would cause the stadium to be completed 12 months late.

 

"My life for Aiur"

 

Oh I'm already drooling over SC2. I'm holding off on buying a new computer until there's a release date

 

I'm assuming you mean D3? But yeah, when that comes out it's pretty much game over as far as my social life goes. This is why I've never picked up world of warcraft...

 

I can't wait I love the series and can't wait till D3 comes out. 4 years in the making it better be good.

 

alright damnit. what the hell are you all talking about? sc2? d2? d3?