@Sammy3469
I went to my son's HS musical performance on the weekend at his shmancy NYC private school, got drinks with a bunch of the other performers parents afterwards. Spent most of the night enjoyably talking to one guy, who was dumbfounding me over and over with what hes been doing with his life. One of those things involves being in the ownership group of nycfc.
His words...we have a big announcement in the next 2-3 weeks.
Me...stadium!!???
Willets point, near Shea.
Anybody else, I'd say...reserve caution. This guy though is as heavy a hitter as I've ever met (and I've worked on some 1% of the 1%ers houses over the years). Bank it.
I error on the side of caution till I know the person better if they give me something big. I talked to a women who covered the Panthers for a bit while Cam was thee. Lives in Florida South Philly girl. She went to a party exclusive 1%ers type and the Florida State Defense Attorney and her husband who took the Jamis Winston cases for FSU was there. Husband was off whipping it up with a bunch of people and let out that the school messed with evidence that would've put Winston away. Bragging how they got one over and slut shamming the victims involved etc. Him and the guys with him were having apparently quite the laugh. She said she wished she had recorded it and handed it over to the cops because it may have been the biggest college cover up since Sandusky and PSU. However she didn't tell anyone because she wasn't sure if this guy or the women really were who they said they were etc.
Either way how well do you know this guy. It's good news if it's the case though.
I don't know this guy at all...just met him Saturday night for the first time. But he definitely is who he says he is...and if he's lying or exaggerating, I'd be surprised. Dude is in ownership of a bunch of teams around the world in almost all the leagues...would be a strange thing to make up for him. I've worked for people who according to Google have more billions than him, but none of them have struck me the way this guy did. The heaviest of hitters.
For what it's worth, I've also seen rumblings on Twitter that the stadium deal is imminent.
Looks to be more than rumblings now. The NY Times just released the details. This is as real as it gets before a shovel hits the ground. Great news break
@El Floppo !!
Sounds like a good deal for NY as there is very little the city (ie the people) is giving to get the stadium done.
$780m for a soccer stadium in the US......wow......I hope it will be worth the wait
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New York City officials have reached an agreement to build the city’s first professional soccer stadium, the centerpiece of a giant mixed-use development that would transform a long-underutilized waterfront section of Queens.
The 25,000-seat stadium for the New York City Football Club is slated to rise on city land by 2027 in the Willets Point neighborhood of Queens, across the street from the right field foul pole of Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets, Mayor Eric Adams and the soccer team’s officials confirmed on Tuesday.
The stadium would be the first significant major-league sports venue to be built in the city since 2012, and is set to be the focal point of a 23-acre project that includes a 250-room hotel and 2,500 units of housing. Officials say the project would be the city’s largest development of entirely affordable housing since the Mitchell-Lama developments of the 1970s.
The deal represents Mayor Eric Adams’s most ambitious economic development initiative and comes as he is about to complete his first year in office. It also spells the end of two sagas: the team’s decade-long search for a dedicated soccer stadium and an even longer conundrum about the future of Willets Point, a once thriving conglomeration of auto body shops.
“Queens, which is the world’s borough, now will become the home of soccer, which is the world’s sport,” Maria Torres-Springer, the deputy mayor for economic and workforce development, said in an interview on Tuesday.
Unlike many stadium deals, including one for the Buffalo Bills
negotiated this year by Gov. Kathy Hochul that included nearly $900 million in public funds, city officials said subsidies for this project are largely limited to infrastructure improvements at the site and property tax breaks for the stadium.
The soccer team will pay for the entire construction of the stadium, which is estimated to cost $780 million, city officials said. Neither tax-exempt bond financing nor direct city capital infusions will be used, according to Andrew Kimball, the president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation. The developers are not getting abatements on mortgage recording or sales taxes, he said. But the stadium owners will not have to pay real estate taxes for the duration of the lease.
New York City owns the land on which the stadium and housing will be built, and will lease it to the football club and to a development team that includes Hudson Yards developer Related Companies and Sterling Equities, the development company partially controlled by the Wilpon family, the former owner of the Mets.
Over the course of the 49-year lease, the team will ultimately pay rent of up to $4 million a year to lease the land for the stadium. The team will have the option for a 25-year extension.
The project promises to transform the former industrial zone into a sports and entertainment destination site, comprising Citi Field, the new soccer stadium and the U.S.T.A. Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, which hosts the U.S. Open. And it could put the new
owner of the Mets, the hedge fund manager Steven Cohen, in better position to win one of the three new state casino licenses up for grabs; he is
in talks with Hard Rock to join forces to propose a casino by Citi Field.
The New York City Football Club’s search for a permanent home began in 2012, three years before the team played its first game. In the waning months of former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s administration, talks were underway to build a stadium for the team in the middle of Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
Those
plans were derailed by local politicians and parks advocates, who objected to giving scarce, heavily used parkland to a team that could well afford to build elsewhere: Its majority owner, United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, also owns the Manchester City Football Club, and its minority owner is the New York Yankees. Th
e Mets also objected, demanding that it be paid to let soccer fans park in the lots around Citi Field. (The current plan calls for the Mets to receive parking revenue collected during soccer games.)
Did not see that coming so fast. 
