Apparently the Mayor of Harrison gave an interview at halftime of the Metros game last weekend. It was an upbeat interview that suggested this dog still has plenty of legs and that they hope to break ground by the end of the year. We shall see.
This time that might actually be right. Of course I wouldn't hold my breath, but it was an upbeat interview and they are actually breaking ground on part of the revitalization right now.
Hey, that's one helluva joke. Whoo boy, really had me chuckling. Anyway, he implied more like a 6 month timetable. They've just broken ground on a hotel that's part of the same redevelopment project the Metros stadium is supposed to be the center piece of. He's already visited the Home Depot Center and will be going out there again for the grand opening next month. The MSG sideline reporter asked him for his gut feeling on whether ground would be broken on the Metros stadium within six months and the mayor said it would happen. Just words, of course. But the right words all the same.
I haven't followed the progress in Harrison lately (sick of hearing 30-60 days). Had the Mayor made any public statements of this ilk before?
Yeah. It is definitely a positive sign of things to come. Wouldn't be able to speak to the particulars; but gotta believe that the planning would need to be completely redone if the stadium aspect disappeared. It's unclear as to how the financing is structured; but it appears that both the Mayor of Harrison and the Metros want this to happen. It's just a matter of getting the developer all the way on board. I'm sure that once the Mayor has gone to Galaxy home opener he will have 'Stars in his eyes and be 100% for the stadium. Or be strangely intrigued by astrology.
According to Paul Oliu's latest column, the stadium will open in 2009 or 2010: (emphasis is mine) I trust Paul. He's good people.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Metro Stadium Update The rest is redundant. By the way, I thought the comment was funny.
Does Anschutz settling the claims against him in NY help at this point? Or is funding throught the legislature so completely off the table that it doesn't matter? Later, COZ
The Anschutz issue to which you refer has no bearing on us and our stadium. The larger issue, 38 states, including New Jersey, and in New York, the State, NYC Municipal employees union, the NYC teachers union pension funds, all, possessing billion dollar stock hoildings, and others lost millions during the big stock bubble. QWest, Intel, Oracle, Microsoft, and many other big time name stocks all went up a couple of hundred percent in the late nineties, then took a nosedive in 2000, some down more than 30%, causing this flap. The New Jersey Attorney general, a cheap imitation of Sprizer, his New York conterpart, tried to make some politcal points by attempting litigation, which will go, and has gone, nowehere, as each organization made their own decisions in making these investments, and in Mr Anchutz'z case, he personally did nothing that was illagal. The current financial deal fpor the stadium rests between the town of Harrison, the county, Advance Developmnent Corp and the Metrostars. The deal will happen if the MetroStars put up more money, and Advance Real Estate starts making deals for development in the immediate vicinity of the proposed stadium. Unfortunately, Nick has not been able to put together a sufficiently professional and experienced legal, political lobby, and real estate team to make it happen quicker. Leiwike (sp) from AEG needs to come in and designater a bona fide heavyeight instead of Nick to make it happen
Re: Re: Re: Re: Metro Stadium Update No, sorry, we haven't yet taken to the Californian custom of laughing at asinine cliches.
Kettle. Meet Pot. Now that's out of the way, let's all figure out what's worse: 1. Living in Buffalo. 2. Rooting for DCU the last three years. 3. Having an angry ferret in your pants. 4. Never having to say your sorry.