Metrostars' Harrison Stadium news June 21 we haven't heard anything in a long time about this, but today in the Soccer America MLS Confidential: no more 60-90 days crap anymore. Sakiewicz is now saying three seconds.
Re: Metrostars' Harrison Stadium news June 21 At halftime of the espn2 game-of-the-week, they did a piece on the stadium. According to the report, the Harrison Town Council should vote by July 1st at the latest and it's expected to be approved. They had the mayor of Harrison & the chairman of the Harrison Waterfront Redevelopment Agency both indicating strong support. They said the timeline is to complete all agreements by end-of-summer, finalize the design, begin construction in late winter or early spring 2004, and open for the 2006 season. They also showed lots of great new renderings I haven't seen anywhere. (Rooves on both sidelines!) Metrostars.com doesn't have them. Does anybody know where I could find these on the net?
Re: Re: Metrostars' Harrison Stadium news June 21 i'm hoping MLS Wrap shows them again and talks a little about it because i missed the game and pictures.
I like the new designs of the stadium better than the old ones. It has more of an "English" look to it. The new pictures have cantilever roofs. I didn't like the roofs on the older drawings,they looked like they were made out of canvas. Hopefully the Metros will update the pictures on their website soon.
If this stadium does ever materialize I hope they make it as Euro as possible and avoid some of the mistakes that the HDC made like: 1. The walls around the field that are about 6 feet high that look very similar to what you would see in an NFL stadium. 2. The distance between the fans and the sidelines and behind the goals is way to far away. The fans should be right on top of the action like you would see at Old Trafford or Annfield for example.
I TOTALLY agree with you! Why does the HDC seem like an NFL stadium fieldwise? Did they do this to accomodate concerts or something? That was the only let down I had about the stadium, well I guess thew fact that like 1500 other sports are there as well I hope they make the sidelines exactly how you mentioned, like Highbury, Anfield or Old Trafford!
I completely agree with your two points. Although i think the Home Depot Center is a beautiful stadium,i don't like the 6ft. wall . I prefer the seats to come closer to the field like at Columbus Crew Stadium or any other stadium that you see in England. I love when you see a match from Old Trafford or Highbury and the fans are sitting really close to the field.
http://www.nj.com/sports/ledger/index.ssf?/base/sports-0/1056264184128470.xml This article complete with quotes from the Mayor at the end suggests this is a done deal. As for rent - AEG will operate the stadium. I suspect they will extract a "management fee" of some sort from this arrangement be it in the form of revenue sharing or otherwise. Rest assured they have secured a deal that makes economic sense for their business plan.
The field was 82yds in the first game and the fans were closer on the side lines. But they changed it to 75 yards for the last two games cause 80 yds is most FIFA will allow. What I want to know is why not make it 80 yards and keep the fans closer? Why did they cut it so much back to 75yards?
Surely they didn't consider the team that they would be playing that week. I mean, outside of Wolff and Simuntenkov, KC doesn't have any speedy forwards.
What the hell are you talking about? The problem with Spartan Stadium is that it's too small because it was built for football. The problem with Ohio Stadium was that it was too small because it was built for football. You've got it exactly backwards.
I think SuperDave was talking about the 6 foot walls that surround the field at HDC and that look like all NFL Stadiums.
OK, I sat at midfield on row C when the Galaxy played KC a week ago, and if not for those 6 foot walls being as high as they are I couldn't have seen a damn thing. I just don't understand why you people are upset about the walls.
Explain the financing please Can someone explain the financing of this? So if I have this right, the city gives up the $55 million to get the place built. Then the bondholders get paid back on the property taxes on the land. So if the whole development fails do they use the parking revenue for the bondholders? Aargh, I wish I understood big time finance...
Financing My understanding of financing this is that instead of collecting the property taxes, they use that money to pay off the bonds that were issued. They might use rent revenue to also help pay it off though I haven't read much on the actual agreement (so don't quote me on it). The thought in doing this is that other buildings that will go up around it will bring other revenue, plus I am sure the town will be getting some money, like a small portion of concessions etc. Deals like this are cut all the time from everything from stadiums, high rises, to homes.