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[Blaze23]

Bronx scores $400M soccer stadium

http://nypost.com/2013/12/10/bronx-s...occer-stadium/

After looking at sites in Queens and Brooklyn, a Major League Soccer franchise on Tuesday stood close to a deal to build a 28,000-seat stadium in The Bronx just south of Yankee Stadium, The Post has learned
The New York City Football Club — majority owned by the Manchester City Football Club of the Premier League in the UK — is “very, very close” to inking a deal with GAL Manufacturing, an elevator parts company, sources close to the deal said.
The deal with the soccer club, which is 20 percent owned by the Yankees, will also include the not-for-profit Bronx Parking Development Company.
The $400 million stadium will be located on what now is an empty lot between the Major Deegan and East 153rd Street, a source following the situation said.
Mayor Bloomberg has blessed the pact.
However, the team will not move forward without mayor-elect Bill de Blasio’s blessing, and he has not yet reviewed the deal, sources said.
The complex deal includes the NYCFC paying for GAL to relocate.
Under the proposed plan, the NYCFC will fund construction of the stadium with city-backed tax exempt bonds.
The club would make pilot payments through a 35-year deal and guarantee bondholders revenues from suite sales, naming rights and the like, a source said.
That is similar to the way the Yankees, Mets and Forest City Ratner recently paid for their stadiums.
The new MLS team plans to start playing games during the 2015 season at Yankee Stadium.
It hopes to start playing in the new digs in 2018 or 2019, the source said.
Neither the Yanks nor the NYCFC could be reached for comment.

[NYguy]

http://therealdeal.com/blog/2013/12/...bronx-stadium/

Major League Soccer team to build $400M Bronx stadium


December 11, 2013
Mark Maurer

A new Major League Soccer team called the New York City Football Club is close to signing a deal with GAL Manufacturing to construct a $400 million soccer stadium between the Major Deegan Expressway and East 153rd Street in the Bronx.

The New York City Football Club — of which Manchester City Football Club of the Premier League holds the majority stake — would have to pay GAL Manufacturing to relocate, and fund all construction.

The 28,000-seat facility would sit on a vacant lot just south of Yankee Stadium. While Mayor Bloomberg supports the deal, Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has yet to review it, the New York Post reported.

The plan also calls for the club to make pilot payments through a 35-year deal and promise revenues to bondholders. The stadium is projected to open by 2018 or 2019.

In August, the club was in talks to demolish the 2,400-plus parking garage on the site, as previously reported.

[manchester united]

http://www.bxtimes.com/stories/2013/..._12_19_bx.html

I think that this stadium will be ready for 2018 after 3 seasons ( 2015-16-17 ) of the NYCFC at Yankee Stadium.

P.S. I wish to see Ibrahimovic with NYCFC in 2015 !!!

[manchester united]

2 great articles about the NYCFC : http://www.bigapplesoccer.com/teams/...ticle_id=36069 and http://www.bsports.com/statsinsights...iness-man-city

[Hypothalamus]

The Real Deal:

Bronx soccer stadium could give lift to elevator company
Local officials insist on fair price, relocation allowance for GAL Manufacturing

May 06, 2014 02:20PM
Julie Strickland

A planned Major League Soccer stadium in the Bronx, near Yankee Stadium, may dislodge North America’s largest elevator-door equipment manufacturer.

GAL Manufacturing’s 110,000-square-foot building at 50 East 153rd Street in the South Bronx will give way to a new $400 million soccer stadium, should the Bloomberg-era plan come to fruition. The 28,000-seat facility would sit atop a site currently occupied by a parking complex and handful of neighboring buildings, and be co-owned by the Bronx Bombers.

Local officials, including Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., insist that any building contract for the new stadium must include a clause guaranteeing GAL a fair price for its land and a relocation allowance to another Bronx site.

Such a move, however, could actually enable the company, located on the site for the past 44 years, to pursue needed upgrades.

“We don’t have a loading dock,” Doug Witham, GAL’s vice president of sales and marketing, told Crain’s. “If we had one or two docks in a new location, it would be enormously beneficial.”

The city came close to inking a deal for the Bronx site earlier this month, but Mayor Bill de Blasio backed out amid concerns about tax breaks and other indirect subsidies for the New York City Football Club, which is jointly owned by the Yankees and Sheik Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan of Manchester City.

[manchester united]

Go New York City FC !!!!

[BiggieSmalls]

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/articl...ooks-elsewhere

Curious about the prospects for a Major League Soccer arena near Yankee Stadium?

So is Paul Seifried, vice president of the elevator business that would have to relocate to make way for the city's first professional soccer team, as envisioned by Michael Bloomberg and tentatively embraced by his successor, Bill de Blasio.

NEGOTIATIONS OVER SOCCER SITE STALL

"I really don’t know what the heck is happening,” said Seifried, a vice president at GAL Manufacturing Corp, the elevator parts company standing on the site proposed for New York City Football Club, a joint venture of Manchester City Football Club owner Sheik Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan and the New York Yankees. “The ball is absolutely in their court.”

[drumz0rz]

Glad they gave up on trying to put this in Flushing! A soccer stadium is an appropriate replacement for a parking lot and an elevator supply company, not park land.

[BiggieSmalls]

Originally Posted by drumz0rz

Glad they gave up on trying to put this in Flushing! A soccer stadium is an appropriate replacement for a parking lot and an elevator supply company, not park land.

They were building the Flushing Soccer stadium on what is now a dilapidated "fountain of the planets".

Moving the NYCFC to the Bronx had more to do with the Yankees getting involved.

And the parking lot proposed to hold part of the stadium in the Bronx is "park land" leased from the city -- the Parking Company isnt paying the rent agree to.

[NYguy]

Could be back to Queens...


http://www.capitalnewyork.com/articl...t-stadium-site

Soccer club considers Aqueduct for stadium site

By Gloria Pazmino
Sep. 15, 2014

Developers behind a proposal to build the city’s first Major League Soccer arena are looking to develop land near the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, after plans to build near Yankee Stadium fell apart, sources told Capital.

Manchester City Football Club owner Sheik Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan and the New York Yankees, which are partnering in the joint venture for the New York City Football Club, are now looking at a possible site “adjacent to the aqueduct racetrack in Queens,” a source told Capital.

Sources told Capital the club is now looking to develop the site near the racetrack because there is an abundance of land primed for development.

“They want to bring World Cup soccer into Queens because the deal in the Bronx fell through,” the source said.

A source close to the negotiations told Capital the Bronx plan “fell through the cracks,” after developers could not reach a deal with the building tenant, which currently occupies the site the partners had hoped to develop.

“The tenant is in one of the old buildings in the area that they needed to vacate, they had agreed on a price, then he changed his mind and the deal fell through,” the source said.

"NYCFC is looking at sites all over New York City," said Risa Heller, a spokeswoman for NYCFC. "We are working with the de Blasio Administration to find a world class site for a soccer-specific stadium."

Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito represents the area where the stadium would have been built in the Bronx.

A spokesman for Mark-Viverito declined to comment.

Capital reported last month that Paul Seifred, the vice-president of an elevator business that would have had to relocate had met with representatives from bin Zayed al-Nahyan and the Yankees.

At the time, Seifred told Capital that despite talks with the football club, it appeared the plan for the site was dead.

The city abandoned its original plan to build in the middle of Queens’ largest park after the Bloomberg administration came up with a more attractive deal, which would build on a 10-acre site in the South Bronx, encompassing three of Yankee Stadium’s parking lots and the building controlled by Seifred’s elevator company.

The de Blasio administration has offered little detail on the project, telling Capital in August that the administration was working with the City Council to “identify a state of the art soccer facility.”

"The administration is committed to working with the City Council and [NYCFC] to identify an appropriate site in New York City to host a world class soccer stadium and facility," said Phil Walzak, a spokesman for the administration.

[eleven=11]

good news for nyc
soccer in a baseball stadium should be illegal.

any news on the Cosmos stadium?

[NYguy]

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article...soccer-stadium

City seeking 'right home' for soccer stadium


NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The de Blasio administration is "actively engaged" in negotiations with Major League Soccer, Britain's Manchester City Football Club and the New York Yankees to find a site for a new soocer stadium, but Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen won't reveal which locations are under consideration. "I'd have to shoot you," she quipped under questioning at Crain's Future of New York City conference Thursday.

Capital New York reported in September that the city was eyeing a location next to the Aqueduct Racetrack in southeast Queens, but Ms. Glen refused to confirm that site as a potential home for MLS' New York City Football Club, which starts play in 2015. She hinted that an announcement could come within a few months.

"Those guys are going to start playing at Yankee Stadium in March," she said. "So they're anxious to know where their future home will be."

[manchester united]

Forza NYCFC !!!!

[chris08876]

A soccer stadium could be on its way to Columbia University

The New York City Football Club is now eyeing Manhattan for its new soccer stadium. The $100 million Major League Soccer team, now playing its debut season, has spent the past four years searching for a home. The club, owned jointly by the United Arab Emirates and the Yankees, is now considering Columbia University's Baker Athletics Complex, according to The New York Times. The team currently plays at Yankee Stadium.

As part of the plan, the club would propose to build a new, larger stadium that could be used by the school's football team. The $400 million stadium would replace the 17,000-seat Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium.

During the past four years, the club has considered more than a dozen sites across the city for the stadium. Among them were the Bronx near Yankee Stadium, Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens and Aqueduct Racetrack.

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Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/sp...c-complex.html
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article...bia-university

[manchester united]

Go NYCFC !!!!

[chris08876]

Yankee Stadium Dimensions Cramping New York City FC’s Style: http://www.wsj.com/articles/yankee-s...yle-1432860456

Published: May 28, 2015

[manchester united]

Pirlo, Lampard and Villa : go NYCFC, you must win the MLS Cup !!!!!

[drumz0rz]

Since this stadium seems to be moving all over the place, why not go back to the Hudson Yards as an option? Looks like they even envisioned a soccer stadium there back in 2004. It'd be a perfect spot in a brand new vibrant neighborhood.

[chris08876]

Land is too valuable for a soccer stadium. Phase 2 of HY will be residential/condo mostly. More tall towers to come.

Originally, the Jets stadium was going to rise there, but that idea failed. Was originally for the Olympics, but the bid was lost.

[Crawford]

A soccer stadium would never happen in Hudson Yards. Midtown is too valuable for sports fields. You would basically be replacing 70 floor towers with a little-used stadium.