If we want to build a stadium, it's going to be MUCH easier if it has absolutely no impact on parkland, even if it's simply a relocation.Is there any possibility of the following situation:
- Since the GAL warehouse location may be small that CFG buys the land and builds a public park (Heritage field) where the old Yankee Stadium stands. They pay for everything.
- CFG builds the stadium at the heritage field site so they have enough space for everything.
So there's a stadium announcement coming in the next few weeks?This info is in line with the July Ad Week interview with one of NYCFC FO people.
When the fuck did this happen? I want to do some digging into government documents. To the Department of Buildings!
Just checked, no property transfer has been recorded re: the GAL Manufacturing site.This is a great post. Both honest and hysterical.
You just know that if this was happening in Europe, someone would be stalking the Building Department looking for paperwork that has been filed.
If you use the Manchester project as the example (and if you follow CFG, they have one blueprint and they execute on it), this makes total sense.
The Wilpons are fucking broke. They still want to develop this land. To get it done, they need to invest a ton of money that they don't have. In order to get mayoral approval, there needs to be public housing.
The Wilpons wanted to build a mall here and some public housing to appease the mayor's office. Instead, they get to build a smaller piece of commercial real estate in tandem with CFG. NYCFC gets their stadium and builds the public housing.
This is a perfect scenario for us.
As someone who lived on the 7 line for over 20 years I'll say this:is the place ideal? my issue is the 7 train sucks big time on weekends and at least near bronx there are three trains i can take to get there. not saying the bronx is what i want but there is only 1 subway line and i think LIRR and the 7 train works half the time
FWIW: my understanding is that the street wild be closed so I assume that overpass which would be on the southwestern corner of the proposed site would be demolished or moved to meet River Avenue instead.
Don't we already have a stadium news thread?