Marty Edelman is on the board of City Football Group. I've seen him by the player's tunnel a lot when I've sat there.
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Marty Edelman is on the board of City Football Group. I've seen him by the player's tunnel a lot when I've sat there.
NickFromAstoria
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Precisely - he's one of our connections to local political circles.
I won't speak for Falastur, but the way I read his post, CFG Stadium Group LLC 'means nothing' in that it is not indicative of an impending stadium deal. The corporation has existed since before NYCFC was announced, and only represents the very broad effort of CFG to secure a stadium, nothing concrete
NickFromAstoria
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Ah, that's a fair interpretation. In that case, we're all on the same page then - it's simply the corporate entity used for anything stadium-related.
Also, not sure if this is related to either the Flushing site or the GAL site, but has it specifically be referenced before that CFG got to the point where they were negotiating a MOU with NYC "for the financing, construction, development and build-out of a new soccer stadium"?
One of the law firms that CFG employed: http://www.herrick.com/matters/cfg-stadium-group-soccer-stadium-development/
One of the law firms that CFG employed: http://www.herrick.com/matters/cfg-stadium-group-soccer-stadium-development/
NickFromAstoria
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I'd wager it was probably GAL - that one seemed a lot closer to completion than Flushing Meadows did.
Don't know if this has been discussed (where's that table of contents NYCFC intern?!?!?), but what are people's thoughts on having a retractable roof? For soccer purposes we don't necessarily need it since soccer is played in all weather conditions (excluding lightning). However, for the stadium's use year round it may be beneficial to have it.
If so I would like it to be similar to the Falcons. Also if we get the fresh direct location, a stadium with a smaller stands behind one goal with midtown in the background would look great with sliding glass doors to open up like the Florida Marlins have.
ZYanksRule
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I would think a retractable roof would be cost-prohibitive. That's what happened to Yankee Stadium, the roof would have substantially added to the cost, and they decided it wasn't worth it.
That's pretty much exactly what I meant, yeah.
Same with MetLife. That was originally going to have a roof and the place still cost a billion dollars.
You don't know how right you are.Everyone owes de Blasio an apology now that we know it's really that guy's girlfriend behind our lack of stadium updates!
NY Soccer Kid
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I will bet you a season ticket subscription that we will not have a stadium (or an authentic and accepted plan for one) in New York City in the next 5 years at least (or name a serious period of years). There needs to be newly elected officials for it to even to gain any real momentum. Both on city and state levels.
2017 de Blasio is out of office. How about 5 years from the inauguration of a new mayor?
If you want to pay for one of my two Pitchside seats for a season, I'd be more than willing to take that deal...
Wrong.
That's very different from what you originally said though. You said we would *never* get a stadium. I'm not sure 5 years is enough to go from zero (that we know of) to finished stadium, but there's got to at least be plans for one by then I would think.
It can be done in 5 years from zero to finished.
Do you want to PM me? I'm willing to take a bet. We can work out the mechanics.
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