Looks like the Fire might build a new, privately-funded stadium at the 78 Site. The McCaskeys and Reinsdorfs looking in from the outside, holding their micropenises in their Trump-sized hands. SAD!

In an interview with The Athletic after the press conference, Mansueto said the team has toured three sites in Chicago: a lakefront site in the Bronzeville neighborhood that was the former home of the Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center; The 78, a development in South Loop where the Chicago White Sox have proposed building a new stadium; and Lincoln Yards, a development along the north branch of the Chicago River in the Lincoln Park neighborhood on the north side of the city.

Mansueto, the founder, CEO and chairman of Morningstar, with a reported net worth of $7.1 billion, said the team would privately finance a new stadium.

“My personal view is that stadiums are not a great investment,” Mansueto said. “They’re big, costly to maintain, sit empty most of the time. And so to the extent that they create value, most of that accrues to the sports team, not the municipality. So to me, it’s fair that the sports team should own it. Moreover, here in Illinois, in the City of Chicago, our finances are strained. Teachers want more money, law enforcement needs money, pension obligations. Our city and state don’t have the funds, to be candid, and so to me, we would privately finance it.”

Are you stoned or pissed off, or both, when you create these postings?

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

The Fire and Red Stars would probably do well at Lincoln Yards.

Hate to tell ya this "Amigo", but that is sort of the essence of how life works.

“My personal view is that stadiums are not a great investment,” Mansueto said. “They’re big, costly to maintain, sit empty most of the time. And so to the extent that they create value, most of that accrues to the sports team, not the municipality. So to me, it’s fair that the sports team should own it. Moreover, here in Illinois, in the City of Chicago, our finances are strained. Teachers want more money, law enforcement needs money, pension obligations. Our city and state don’t have the funds, to be candid, and so to me, we would privately finance it.”

Can we get this guy to run for mayor?

They can play in any number of backyards and attendance won’t be impacted.

Hate to tell ya this "Amigo", but that is sort of the essence of how life works.

I think the soccer teams would be perfect for Rosemont. I don’t think they should be taking up real estate downtown.

*unless they’re part of some weird, mixed-used campus

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

It's merely a 'focus'



https://www.fieldofschemes.com/2024/10/ ... ne-offers/

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

The Bengals are sniffing around for a new stadium, too: they said they're going to look into putting a dome on the current stadium, which is surely just a pretense for saying "it's cheaper to replace it altogether, why don't you guys just do that." I can't imagine how Ohio has the money to give both teams new domes, let alone or the other.

Hate to tell ya this "Amigo", but that is sort of the essence of how life works.

Cleveland update

https://www.ideastream.org/government-p ... adium-move

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The Browns need a new stadium as bad as the White Sox need a new stadium. Ridiculous.

Now the Browns are suing the city of Cleveland to get the Modell Law repealed. You can't make this stuff up.

I don't know much about Cleveland, but just looking at a satellite map they should let them leave without a fight. The city has a stadium (for the Guardians) and an arena in the downtown area. The football stadium is on the lakefront, separated from downtown by parking and highways. Could tear it down and replace it with parkland and it'd likely retain as a tourist destination outside of the 10 events (how many more events would a domed stadium get? like 5 more?), still have the Rock HoF there and other museums.

To be (somewhat) fair, the Browns stadium is a shithole already - almost as if near-immediate obsolescence was built-in.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

A stand alone Browns stadium tax? Like a forced GoFundMe.

Both Green Bay and Milwaukee have done stadium taxes.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Michael Reese would have the same accessibility issues as Arlington Heights or Soldier Field where it's served by a single line in a hub-and-spoke distribution and the roads aren't much better.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

This is a Hail Mary to get public money. Once it fails they settle on a renovation of Soldier Field that increases seating capacity but leaves the building identical. McCaskeys LOST.

They've got to use the Indiana option here. Going to New Jersey hasn't hurt the New York teams. The city/state seems dead set on any public money for this and then you've got the psychotic Chicago residents that want there to be no buildings visible from a boat on the lake to the point you can't even replace a building with another building without getting sued for years by a bunch of rich people that think they are saving Chicago by ensuring grass and parking lots exist near a bunch of other grass and parking lots.

Lots of land available right by the Chicago skyway.

and then you've got the psychotic Chicago residents that want there to be no buildings visible from a boat on the lake to the point you can't even replace a building with another building without getting sued for years by a bunch of rich people that think they are saving Chicago by ensuring grass and parking lots exist near a bunch of other grass and parking lots.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.