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A possible new stadium site for NYCFC Fresh Direct Long Island City Site Said to Sell for $48 Million ... bloomberg The 276,705-square-foot (25,707-square-meter) warehouse at 23-30 Borden Ave. sold Thursday for $48 million, according to a person with knowledge of the property. The buyer is Atlas Capital Group LLC, an owner and developer of office, residential and retail properties in New York, Los Angeles and Miami, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the deal hasn’t been made public. The price is the second-highest ever paid for an industrial property in Queens that isn’t being turned into homes, according to research firm Real Capital Analytics Inc. In a neighborhood across the East River from Manhattan where new luxury apartment and condominium towers are remaking the skyline, the Fresh Direct warehouse is located in a manufacturing zone where homes can’t be built. Marketing materials for the site, which includes an additional 129,847 square feet of unused development rights, suggest that could change someday. “While immediate conversion or redevelopment of the property is not feasible, the rapid repositioning of Long Island City’s industrial/warehouse and manufacturing properties makes the prospect of future redevelopment highly likely,” according to the documents prepared by the marketing brokerage. The Cushman & Wakefield brokers listing the site -- Bob Knakal, chairman of New York investment sales, and David A. Chkheidze -- declined to comment on the deal. Jeffrey Goldberger, a principal at Atlas, didn’t return a message left at his New York office. Fresh Direct’s public relations office didn’t respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
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It does look like a nice spot, with the waterway behind it. After reading the article, it sounds like this might be the first piece, in a mult-piece, game. Hoping the go between company is really controlled by NYCFC, but if all the pieces are not already in play, I think the cat is out of the bag. Lets just say all the land around the stadium lot just tripled in asking price....not to mention the whole 'railroad' problem and the feuding governor and mayor - I would hate to have to do a restate deal in NYC proper
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It is flattering, but I don’t understand why they are only concerned about MLS. Why not Liga MX, China, Middle East, Portugal, Russia, Turkey?
Speculation is that they might pay GAL to move to this location to free up their site next to Yankee Stadium.
The #ReturnOfTheRhinos is complete as David and Wendy Dworkin take the helm as new owners. https://t.co/a9KnyMPsvt pic.twitter.com/HsMdGspp0f— USL Championship (@USLChampionship) March 10, 2016 Mets in Queens, Nets and Islanders in Brooklyn, Jets played a couple decades at Shea. All the other "second teams" in NYC conveniently set up camp on the opposite side of the East River from their crosstown counterparts. I prefer a Queens stadium over one in the Bronx since it would allow NYCFC to further tap into a region of the tri-state area that seldom attends NYRB matches. In this case, you'd have Manhattan, plus the Hudson and East River separating the two clubs. Hopefully we'll get some stadium porn renderings with iconic views of the skyline.
RSL nabbed some TAM from TFC in exchange for the right of first refusal of a guy who went through their academy and then off to Norway and then Indy Eleven. Still only 20; it's Ben Spencer. I want a team to spend TAM on onetime Canadian NT player Tam Nsaliwa, or former Scotland youth player Tam Scobbie.
Most of those don't the same economic force that US leagues have come to show. I think fans of all sorts of leagues and from all sorts of parts of the world are wondering if there does come a day when MLS starts to play around in the same financial puddles as the NFL or MLB. I can see why that would be concerning to lots of folks, and it's my personal belief by and large why many foreigners have for a long time loved to denigrate the rise of American soccer. It's a concern that this upstart league can suddenly put crazy money into the game and walk away with the best players and biggest TV contracts and stuff.
This. As a native of Rochester, and old time Lancers fan (God bless Carlos Metadieri) - and a stockholder of the minor league baseball Rochester Red Wings - I can say that this is the best outcome imaginable. The last owner was a good guy and his heart was in the right place but he was always running too close to the margins. The Dworkins are the perfect owners and this sets up the Rhinos for at least another decade. Cheers and applause all around. Minor league sports investors who aren't really angling for a major league deal in the future are increasingly hard to find. Good on them, good on Rochester.