Yea it seems a lot of the residents in Chinatown don’t want the area built. Personally I’m skeptical the arena will ever become a reality.
Can they build a temporary rink on the field at Subaru Stadium? It may get a bit chilly in the winter.
It seems to be a thing now that every NBA-NHL owner/team wants their own arena. Coyotes and Suns couldn't share, Coyotes get an arena, leave it and may be heading elsewhere Clippers go and build a new place- looks amazing, but in my opinion- wrong area- a transit desert. Nets and Islanders new different arena. Nets, like Suns, built areas with poor hockey sitelines. Why? If NBA/NHL seasons are about 40 home games + playoffs, how do these arenas pencil out for a 365 day year? There are just not enough concerts or other things to fill the calendar and when you have multiple arenas in some towns, the events are even more spread out. This is all becoming a little too much. On the other hand, MLS HAD to get its own smaller better places to make the game better and the team financially strong. To me, quite a different set of issues.
Well, in the case of Barclays making it a basketball-centric arena was to save money. The original plans (by Frank Gehry) were for an arena that could host hockey properly, but the decision was made to reduce the building's footprint to save costs. The same is true for other NBA-first arenas (including Phoenix, which is ironically named the Footprint Center these days). A basketball arena can be smaller than a hockey arena.
The two of three biggest stadium hurdles have been cleared. Inter Miami officially getting their stadium underway and NYCFC getting the property in NYC which they will soon start construction on. Next is New England and their downtown Boston stadium! pic.twitter.com/nzY1zt8WyA— MLS Moves (@MLSMoves) August 28, 2023 The Freedom To Dream continues 🏗️💗🏟️Construction has officially begun on Miami Freedom Park! Our new 25,000-seat fútbol specific stadium, 58-acre public park, and entertainment district is scheduled to open in 2025.Find out all the details: https://t.co/4EcGiHmpE1 pic.twitter.com/ro0qvb5axp— Inter Miami CF (@InterMiamiCF) August 28, 2023
I was in Chinatown on Sunday and I was walking with a couple of folks who were discussing it. I can sympathize with them. It's not as though Philly's Chinatown is extremely large.
THIS is excellent. NY and MIA finally on their way to resolution and 2 more stadiums for me to visit ! I think everyone agrees NE should be the next problem to resolve somehow. Put grass back in Charlotte and I will accept BofA stadium a bit longer. Soldier also gets a bye for a bit as its grass already. Portland would be perfect if grass went in. I just really dread the "turf& domes" stadiums. NE,SEA,ATL,VAN.....ugh --- I do find it interesting Messi appears to have agreed to place on plastic. Will have to see what his comments are afterwards
At least replace the old rubber pellet turf with the new coconut turf. https://gazette.com/sports/weidner-...cle_02e3f180-a777-11eb-9591-1f94046d3e52.html
I believe he's already had comments to the effect of "I grew up training and playing on plastic. No problem."
Not MLS, but close: Oakland Roots have been given permission to build a modular 10k seat stadium in Oakland in the parking lot of the Oakland A's stadium. Another new stadium for USLWith the A's leaving, the Oakland Roots will be the only remaining professional sports team in the city. pic.twitter.com/ZKnzPN9tOo— MLS Buzz (@MLS_Buzz) September 20, 2023
And in NWSL news, the new 15k KC Current stadium is nearly done... We are excited to have @thekccurrent Stadium in Jackson County! @JCEFrankWhite took a tour of the new stadium, KC Current player @vdibernardo10 assisted with the tour. This is the World’s 1st stadium for a women’s professional sports team…way to go KC Current! pic.twitter.com/0uu4BwYXqG— Jackson County MO (@JacksonCountyMO) September 14, 2023 https://www.instagram.com/p/CxZF7I5PWhd And the new Boston franchise will be refurbishing the White Stadium to an 11k complex... https://www.thestadiumbusiness.com/2023/09/20/nwsl-set-for-return-to-boston/
To be clear, the Oakland Roots received the ok to enter into an exclusive negotiating agreement to negotiate a 10-year lease. It is good news, but work still has to be done before the stadium is approved. Oakland Roots and Soul SC Receive Go-Ahead on Exclusive Negotiation Agreement with the City of Oakland and County of Alameda for Malibu Lot Stadium - Oakland Roots SC
In today's article about what went wrong between Oakland and the A's, Earthquakes and A's owner John Fischer complains about the Earthquakes' stadium already being outdated.. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/38442355/story-how-all-went-south-las-vegas This seems like a silly complaint considering that MLS teams were adding premium seats and boxes to stadiums when San Jose built their stadium and the reason why PayPal doesn't have them is because Fisher went cheap on the stadium rather than dropping the big bucks like LAFC, St. Louis, and Austin did.
------------------------- Hope Oakland can make this work. Yes, it's the second division, but it is professional and you have lost 3 other franchises, so go with what you can get. Teams seem well received in Oakland, this would solve their bouncing between 2 stadiums in 2 cities. I googled the area, can't find a map where this would go. The existing complex has BART and Amtrak station(s), how close would this be to where they want to put the stadium? Much better transit access than current 2 stadiums. Since designed with soccer in mind, could be cool to have a Bay Area soccer tourney with college teams as a pre-season thing just with state schools.. Cal, SJS, SFSU, CSEB
----------- I thought the lower (usually empty) portions of the stadium deck was the luxury seats? In an area of wealth like Silicon Valley, seems a farce they can't make this work. A second team is coming in to pay rent also. The owner is scum.
--------------------- I like the Boston stadium project- in town, saving a classic old stadium Not sure on the KC project- will this team fill this place all the time? Great to see, actually better location than the Sporting's stadium- closer to downtown. Isn't their a casino and extension of the KC streetcar involved with this? I guess much like the USMNT team playing at MLS SSS, the USWNT can start playing at NWSL stadiums also.
Yeah I agree, it's farcical of them to cry about their stadium lacking amenities, when they CHOSE to spend what they spent on it. They had opportunities to add those revenue drivers in when they built the place....
That is a great article. It is primarily about the A's and really captures the problem with Fisher's ownership. He worked for years to get the Oakland solution close to the finish line and then chooses a poorly planned franchise move to a small lot with a 3-year lead time in the smaller LV media market?! Doubling ticket prices while gutting the roster?! Getting the relocation fee waived while he collects his revenue sharing from other MLS owners who are trying?! Fisher and Kaval, as his mouthpiece, look like a joke. As other's have pointed out, complaining about PayPal Park's lack of amenities is hypocritical when he made the decision on what amenities to build and omit! He could add more and update the Park if he wanted. There is room on the end with the bar to expand if they want more seats. But since they are not selling out the seats they have, that doesn't seem to be too smart. Really hoping Fisher sees the best path here is to work with a group/person looking to buy the A's who will keep the team in Oakland and to sell the Quakes to an owner that sees the potential of the Bay Area's soccer market and invests in the team, both stadium and roster, as befits the 6th biggest media market in the US.
If you look at the satellite view, it's the triangular lot south of the Coliseum complex lot, across a small creek and along Joe Morgan Way. It's called the Malibu Lot because it used to be a Malibu Grand Prix go-kart track that closed in the 90s. After that it became overflow parking for the Raiders. From BART, people can walk across the Coliseum lot to get there, and the Coliseum lot on the arena side would be used for parking.