Stadium Discussion
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nah, doubt it. Office buildings have the luxury of building vertically on a small footprint. Don't see why they would be in competition with us unless they split a plot of land from a barely suitable plot we could have used. But my understanding is they are taking the waterfront around 11th street basin and/or temporarily moving into the Citi building, which might cause them to look inland. I doubt very much we could fit a stadium in any of those places.
It would be nice if Amazon deciding to move to LIC brings some cachet to Queens and has the team seriously consider moving there as well. I mean with amazon coming the discussion will be heavily on infrastructure to support all the new jobs/housing, which would also be a concern for the stadium. If deals are made to improve public transport in the area it might spur some discuss about considering Queens. Easier for the city to spend to fix transit in one borough than two!
damn, goodbye to the queens i knew. its gonna be the super hip place now ( although it was already getting there in LIC/ Astoria for sure)
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Remember that stadium spanning the river between Brooklyn and Queens that had 4 towers one at every corner......
Pipe dream but a pretty dream for a Villa Field at the Amazon stadium.
Not yet #team60. You dang whippersnappers.
FWIW, Tony mentioned that he and his wife were in focus groups for the stadium. He was part of the club/supporter one that many board members were invited to, and his wife (supposedly) did a completely different business-related, non-fan focus group.
So does anyone know if Tony's gut delivers on a reliable schedule?
Is there a possibility that since the garage spot and the LIC spot were both in play for Amazon, people had to wait for the Amazon deal to land before some amount of process got kicked off with the garage?
My assumption would be no. Everything I read always listed LIC for Amazon, but never saw mention of the Bronx. Could be wrong though. My hope is CFG tries to go to bed with Amazon on this as I feel that with Amazon's backing, the city would be afraid to tell them no. But I doubt we get Amazon Stadium anytime soon.
I did one of these groups about 3 years ago now. They don't really discuss much outside of what fans want. It's more of an appeasement than a real focus group. But things change so who knows.
Alexa Stadium presented by Andrew Cuomo opening 2021.
"Alexa, set reminder for opening of stadium in 2021."
"Set reminder for opening of stadium in 3043."
"Wait....what?"
Doubtful since they sponsor Melbourne as well. Pretty sure someone in CFG owns them or a stake in them so i doubt they will drop as a sponsor anytime soon.
The cynic in me says the club has been anticipating not resigning Villa and they've thrown the stadium crumbs to try to temper the future drop in season tickets.
