It has been clearly stated from day one that this was a temporary (supposedly 2 year) venue for Inter Miami.
We don't know how much is being kept permanently. It has been stated that this stadium is modular and being built like the Whitecaps temp stadium. I don't know enough to know if a modular stadium like that can be permanent. Maybe it can. I would have a hard time thinking it can be used for 20 years, but that still doesn't make it not permanent (double negative for the win ).
Modular. Not necessarily temporary. And aren't all stadiums temporary? Crew Stadium lasted 21 years. Bridgeview less. If Arsenic Park hits some (more) snags, they could be there longer. And not supposedly. Really. And the training facility. This is the MLS stadium thread. It is a stadium. It's a SSS stadium. The MLS team is going to play there. If news of that pisses you off, perhaps you should spend less time here.
Crew ownership group pledges another $70 million for stadium project Total stadium budget now up to $300M in Columbus: That's so much more than any Crew fan imagined would be spent on the facility that it's hard for me to wrap my mind around.
Just out. Apparently the land purchase agreement was not official until today. https://www.10tv.com/article/columbus-crew-sc-agrees-purchase-land-new-downtown-stadium-2019-oct
Yeah, a year ago we were being told to lower our expectations. That we wouldn't necessarily top FCC or LAFC and would instead get something functional like Houston or Orlando have. Now we're getting something like a star destroyer which will have a roof designed to "amplify" crowd noise.
Crew said 4,296 in attendance today. That is close to or more than butts in seats USOC games sometimes. Garber's speech was a bit rocky. Some turned their backs. Bird's were flipped. Some heckled. But it could have gone MUCH worse. But he had some guts showing up, I will give him that. Still, a great day. A long way from two years ago when we rallied on the steps of city hall & Morgan said you are in the wrong place if you came for a funeral. Props. Did not even realize Dee kicked in another $70 million.
https://www.crewstadium.com/#construction-cam Just now I must have looked at just the right time, because I saw 12 separate vehicles in motion on site all at once. It looks pretty decent in full screen mode.
You can't expect people to actually understand what a commissioners job is. They think that Garber personally was trying to kill the Crew when, you know, he works for the owners and does what they tell him to do on the major things. But, hey, each and every one of us stands up to our boss (or bosses) and tells them to f off and do the opposite of what they tell us to do, right?
Has it ever been stated that Garber works for the other owners? He’s the commissioner of a privately owned company. In that sense he’s CEO. He dictates company policy in accordance with the board of governors. To assume he only follows orders isn’t exactly accurate.
The board of governors are the owners. So yes, he directly works for the owners. Now that said, he's the man with his finger on the pulse of the league so the board is going to follow his lead in a lot of ways. Its unlikely that the BOG is making him do something he strongly disagrees with very often, likewise its not often the BOG is going to ignore his recommendations. But in the end on something like the Austin mess it wasn't ultimately Garber's call, though the odds that he greatly disagreed with it are low. As a commissioner though, regardless of his viewpoint on what happened, he's expected to be at something significant like a groundbreaking.
Hey, give them credit. It took real guts to go ahead and hold the Austin groundbreaking in broad daylight.
But he and Abbot did go out of their way to bash Columbus, our fans, our advanced metrics, and generally everything about us while saying not one unkind word about PSV or Greeley. Just ask some Fire fans about Greeley if you think it is a Columbus thing. The truth is the vast majority of professional sports owners are huge douchebags. The behavoir of the commissioners and leagues reflects that (see NBA & China; NFL & domestic abuse, etc).
Yeah, Garber was pronouncing the Columbus market a failure at the same time other, larger markets had even lower attendance.
And most sports fans, especially those on message boards are poor winners. Get over it. You've got great new douchebag owners and they're building a nice new soccer palace. Try enjoying that.