Stadium Discussion

[CCMore]

I really hope this is real because I’m getting excited and don’t won’t to be let down again. I’m starting to queue up the “It’s happening” gifs

 

[adam]

After years of campaigning for Queens on this forum (and facing a lot of opposition on it as well), this all feels surreal. But also tempering my expectations, because it’s been so long and such a journey, it’s hard to believe tomorrow might be it.

 

[Jon]

Definitely excited if this is really happening. Honestly, one of the biggest things in looking forward to is the tailgate scene. Always makes the game day experience better.

 

[Kjbert]

well ill be in the middle of a meeting at work at that time thank you very much lol

Do you need me to call in with an emergency?

 

[Bane]

Here’s a question, let’s assume this is finally happening. How far along do we think CFG thinks this proposal is to formally announce it? Surely, they’d have to think it’s close to being a lock.

 

[Bane]

Also, CFG, you better not go cheap with the design and stadium. It’s a rare chance to build something new and special in NYC.

 

[Shwafta]

Don't hyperventilate don't hyperventilate don't hyperventilate

 

[KevinJRogers]

Don't hyperventilate don't hyperventilate don't hyperventilate

It's really, really hard to not get all cranked up about this, isn't it. I'm almost shaking.

 

[JayH]

Also, CFG, you better not go cheap with the design and stadium. It’s a rare chance to build something new and special in NYC.

This is why they came to NYC, to land the white whale and optimally market the brand. They won’t go cheap.

 

[adam]

This is why they came to NYC, to land the white whale and optimally market the brand. They won’t go cheap.

Retractable roof??? I hope they go with the old school brick aesthetic to match Citi. And troughs for urinals of course.

(But if they made it look like a giant fudgy the whale like you suggest, I will not complain!)

 

[CCMore]

If this is really it, I’m super impressed that we haven’t seen a leaked document or mock up of the thing on a race car bed with 90s grunge lyrics swirling around it.

 

[Kenny]

Here’s a question, let’s assume this is finally happening. How far along do we think CFG thinks this proposal is to formally announce it? Surely, they’d have to think it’s close to being a lock.

All the real negotiations regarding the major issues of substance and potential conflicts and banana peels have already taken place between stakeholders and been resolved. That’s how it works. The announcement will herald the kickoff of the formal public environmental review process, which is an exercise in analysis and disclosure of potential impacts of various kinds, and a public and civic comment period in response. It is exceedingly rare that a project gets killed at this stage. Modified a bit, yes, sometimes.

 

[mgarbowski]

This is why they came to NYC, to land the white whale and optimally market the brand. They won’t go cheap.

Retractable roof??? I hope they go with the old school brick aesthetic to match Citi. And troughs for urinals of course.

(But if they made it look like a giant fudgy the whale like you suggest, I will not complain!)

It will be a first class, expensive blue grey minimalist, East German institutional design like everything else they build.

 

[JayH]

(But if they made it look like a giant fudgy the whale like you suggest, I will not complain!)

Carvel Citi-Puss Stadium.

 

[Fantazma]

Do you need me to call in with an emergency?

 

[Bane]

It will be a first class, expensive blue grey minimalist, East German institutional design like everything else they build.

For the sake of how rare and potentially special this opportunity is, I hope they really go all in here.

 

[Fantazma]

For the sake of how rare and potentially special this opportunity is, I hope they really go all in here.

if this happens. isint it technically the first stadium that CFG will build for one of their teams? IIRC all the other teams they own already have a stadium ( either own or rent).

you would hope they try to go all out.

 

[mgarbowski]

For the sake of how rare and potentially special this opportunity is, I hope they really go all in here.

I hope I’m wrong, but I never bet against a streak

 

[WalkenTall27]

Assuming its relation to Citi field can we call it Metihad Stadium?

 

[KevinJRogers]

if this happens. isint it technically the first stadium that CFG will make for one of their teams? IIRC all the other teams they own already have a stadium ( either own or rent).

you would hope they try to go all out.

I think this is indeed their first stadium from the ground up. The Etihad was built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. As far as I can tell, all the other clubs they bought or bought into were already playing in their own parks, although CFG has built a lot of ancillary facilities (academies, that kind of thing).

We're kind of their baby, the team they created from scratch at the start of their expansion into CFG. And NYC is by far the biggest city any of their teams play in. I can't imagine they'd come light.

(Ferran Soriano got his MBA at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute not far from where I'm sitting, too. I'm sure he has a soft spot for the Big Apple. LOL)

EDIT: Yokohama has less than half the population of New York, but it's part of the Greater Tokyo area. So let's call that one a tie.