Cincinnati

This is amazing considering Minnesota United is around 7,000.

 

In USL Sacramento was the gold standard with 9,500 so I think putting it in that perspective is better. Also this marks an increase for 5,500 last year for Cincinnati. Beating our 17,000 average is looking pretty good right now.

 

http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinna...ct-hints-at-fc-cincinnati-stadium-design.html

"It’s not clear yet whether FC Cincinnati will need to build a stadium, but it wants to show MLS that it has a plan in place to do so if necessary."

 

Wow...Harkes fired http://lastwordonsoccer.com/2017/02/17/john-harkes-dismissed-fc-cincinnati/

 

I dont know anything about real estate in Cincinnati. Does anybody have any idea where possible sites may be for a new stadium? Im interested to scope them out on the map.

 

@fccincinnati announces it will 100% privately finance their new soccer stadium

 

https://www.socceramerica.com/publi...-mayor-bids-to-end-impasse-over-soccer-s.html

11 hours ago
FC Cincinnati received support from Cincinnati mayor John Cranley to close the gap in funding for infrastructure work -- roads, parking, improvements -- it needs to build the soccer stadium it deems essential to win an MLS expansion bid.

FC Cincinnati -- which appears to be in a three-way fight with Sacramento and Nashville for the two MLS expansion teams to be awarded in mid-December -- has proposed building a 21,000-seat stadium and paying for it itself. But it says it needs help paying for $70 million-$75 million in infrastructure work.

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinn...ati-councilman-sittenfeld-will-oppose-fc.html

Cincinnati councilman Sittenfeld will oppose FC Cincinnati stadium plan;
where do others stand?

 

if you have some phone numbers or email addresses...I would be more than happy to contact the undecided...thanks, M

 

the league has revealed four finalists for the first two expansion spots, which will be announced before the end of the year: 　

Cincinnati　
Detroit　
Nashville　
Sacramento　

The finalists will make presentations to the league's Expansion Committee and Commissioner Don Garber on Dec. 6, and the MLS Board of Governors meeting on Dec. 14 will include additional discussions on expansion with ownership representatives from every team.

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinn...nnati-confirms-it-wants-stargel-site-for.html

Feb 12, 2018
7:18pm EST

FC Cincinnati is proposing to replace Cincinnati Public Schools’ Stargel Stadium with a new high school stadium in the southwest corner of Ezzard Charles Drive and John Street and build its new soccer stadium at the current Stargel site behind Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School.

The club’s president, Jeff Berding, confirmed the proposal, which has been widely discussed in Cincinnati’s business and political community for months, to the school board on Monday night.

 

http://cincinnatisoccertalk.com/2018/04/16/opinion-okay-mls-its-on-you-mls2cincy

FC Cincinnati under the leadership of Owner Carl Lindner III and GM/President Jeff Berding checked all the necessary boxes for admission into Major League Soccer (MLS) on Monday.

Beginning with last week’s land swap approval with Cincinnati Public Schools, Lindner and Berding completed the necessary public-private partnerships to build the club’s stadium in Ohio. Hamilton County (parking and infrastructure), the Cincinnati Port Authority (stadium ownership), the West End Community Council (community benefits agreement) and the City of Cincinnati (infrastructure) have all committed to the plan and have helped complete the most difficult piece of the MLS puzzle.

While the official deals are pending an invitation to the nation’s top soccer league, the coalition supporting the deal is impressive and should stand out to the league. Many major civic groups are backing the deal. Local labor unions, West End Community leaders, and even members of both sides of the political aisle have come together to continue the city’s renaissance.

 

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