The Baupost Group, LLC bid calls for an investment team headed by Boston-based, billionaire hedge-fund manager Seth Klarman to purchase the USL Championship's Las Vegas Lights from Brett Lashbrook. While the team continued to compete in the USL Championship out of Cashman Field, the proposed 25,000-seat, domed stadium for a Major League Soccer franchise would be built on adjacent property of the 62-acre Cashman Center site. Once the new stadium was completed and Major League Soccer franchise rights had been secured, the Las Vegas Lights FC branding would be shifted to the MLS team. The current Cashman Field site would be maintained as the training center for the MLS team. The remainder of the Cashman Center acreage - everything other than the domed stadium and training site - would be redeveloped by The Renaissance Companies as a mixed-use space including hotel and residential components. Per the Las Vegas Review-Journal of June 5, 2019: "The plan is for the team to be sold to Baupost if a development deal is reached, play at Cashman Field until the new stadium is ready and then use the old field for practice upon joining the MLS as its latest expansion franchise." https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/...es-challenge-in-golden-knights-owner-1679634/
============== Thats quite a detailed plan with many moving pieces. I know its just an artist rendering, but doesn't look like a dome, unless its retractable and the picture is showing it open.
Per ESPN.com: "The stadium is an engineered ETFE domed stadium roof that is a translucent plastic that allows enough daylight in to bring an outdoor feel to our 25,000-seat facility, but it will also give our fans a fully indoor stadium," said Klephart via email. That is in line with a recent requirement that MLS is putting on expansion hopefuls who reside in locales with high summer temperatures. At last summer's All-Star Game in Atlanta, Garber said, "I believe that if we're going to be in communities like [Las Vegas], we need indoor stadiums," he said. "We can't schedule all of our games at night in every city across the country." https://www.espn.com/soccer/major-l...28/las-vegas-mls-plan-includes-indoor-stadium
https://amp.sacbee.com/news/local/article234898582.html It happened........It has finally happened. Sacramento, after all of these years of waiting.......is INNNN Literally the only thing that could have kept me interested in soccer after Greg Berhalter's embarrassment today......happened.
This might be a bit of a tangent for this subforum, but it sounds like Sac is about to get NWSL in 2020 as well: https://equalizersoccer.com/2019/10/17/2020-nwsl-expansion-sacramento-republic-advanced-discussions/ Lots of D1 soccer about to come to Sacramento!
I wish the Haslams would go for a NWSL team as well. But heck, cannot ask for too much too fast. They have already dropped a ton of $$$$ on the project, and the Crew are the only team without an affiliate in USL.
You are but the only team without a USL affiliate, but Tonight at the @FCC_Foundation Ladies Lace-Up event, @JeffBerding just reiterated that the goal is to have Cincinnati’s first professions women’s (soccer) team playing at @WestEndStadium once it gets up and running.— Lizz Summers (@LizzSum) October 17, 2019
You've never heard the phrase: "go for it?" FWIW, there is a women's team in Columbus, the Columbus Eagles, just not at NWSL level.
thats gonna be a bittersweet one for me. Ive been a quakes fan since day one of the league. I know there will be a synthetic rivalry created, but I wont bite on that even a second.
I'm with you on that one, at least for a while. A rivalry discussion has started over here: https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/sacramento-republic-fc-in-the-media.2002439/page-12
Synthetic? Quakes/Sacramento have the ingredients of a real rivalry... Close proximity and a couple of matches a year. As they say, 'familiarity breeds contempt.' The rivalry may seem synthetic at first, but give it time. It with fester properly into a real one over the years.
Should be a wonderful spectacle. And there should be no need to rush the rivalry. It will develop naturally if given the time. I'm a Quakes fan too, but tbh as an East Bay native SJ has never quite felt like my team. Really looking forward to USL East Bay down the line.
I think every SJ fan in this scenario is going to go about it in their own way; somewhat of the grieving process.
Ideal would be USL-C in Cleveland but training in Columbus most of the week. And a NWSL team in Cbus. Bezbatchenko says getting a USL team is a priority but someone else owns Cleveland rights for USL. So we may have to settle for a farm team far away. The NWSL team isn't imminent.
Or Pittsburg. Heck, they could keep their current badge. It's similar enough to the Crew's. I imagine a future Dayton team would be an FC Cincinnati affiliate, but who knows.
With the Browns tie in with the Haslams the Cleveland thinking makes sense. But they could also just put the USL team in MAPFRE. Of course, that would not be an affiliate but a USL team owned by the Crew. Bigger step.
The eternal struggle continues Breaking tonight: Two @CityofMiami commissioners have filed a resolution which would direct the City to STOP negotiations w/@InterMiamiCF to build a stadium (& other developments) at Melreese Golf Course, & open up the land for other developments projects (RFP). #InterMiami #MLS pic.twitter.com/I8xQuvWL68— Miki Turner (@turneresq) October 16, 2019