New England Revolution Stadium | 173 Alford Street | Boston-Everett

Scott said:
My personal conspiracy theory is that Kraft is going to uncouple the Revs from the Pats and sell the soccer team. It seems odd that he would build a stadium that is already too small, but has expansion built in. Why wouldn't he just build it all now?
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Could well be a return on investment thing.
When building a stadium the cheapest seats are the most expensive to build.
Build a 25k stadium, fill it every game, grow demand and interest, then add on 10k
Rather than build a 35k stadium and slog your guts out and still have 5-10k empty for some games.
As for the average attendance at foxboro, how heavily is that skewed by one Miami visit?
 
shmessy said:
I fully look forward to any and all concrete suggestions to how we can get back to pure professional sporting events untouched by the US tax code (that shrimp and champagne in the hospitality tent/corporate suite is tax deductible as a business entertainment expense) economic realities of 2025. Until then, it is merely shaking fists at the clouds.

But I’m all ears for reality based suggestions. I would love to find an actual solution. To me, the path is through the tax code, not yelling at Kraft, etc.
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The Packers, but every team.

I know it's not "realistic" because the leagues don't want it but it really seems like the best model.
 
KCasiglio said:
The Packers, but every team.

I know it's not "realistic" because the leagues don't want it but it really seems like the best model.
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I agree with you - I love the Packers model - - and you're also right - it won't be happening in these times. They were grandfathered in from over a century ago:

"The Packers have been a publicly owned, non-profit corporation since August 18, 1923......The NFL does not allow corporate ownership of clubs, requiring every club to be wholly owned by either a single owner or a small group of owners, one of whom must hold a 30% stake in the team. The Packers are granted an exemption to this rule, as they have been a publicly owned corporation since before the rule was in place.[8]"

...and to what Bronson Shore referred to with foreign soccer teams, my guess is the overall culprit here as noted before, is the US tax code and the egregious business entertainment/dining tax slant. It's all about moving public money to private pockets. That is the fundamental. They make municipalities pay for stadiums that benefit privately held franchises (hello Boston Legacy [partially]!!!!! But ironically not New England Revolution).
 
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Former Massport CEO to mediate Revs stadium talks between Wu & Robert Kraft.

The Wu administration has turned to a familiar face to referee negotiations with the Kraft Group over the construction of a pro soccer stadium: former Massport chief executive Tom Glynn.

Glynn is stepping in because state legislation allowing the soccer stadium for the New England Revolution to go up in an industrial zone on the Everett waterfront — at the site of a shuttered power plant across the Mystic River from Charlestown — also requires the Kraft Group to reach community mitigation agreements with Everett and with Boston.
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As Revs stadium talks drag on, Wu presses Krafts for more help in Charlestown - The Boston Globe

As Boston mayor's race heats up, so is the dispute over a soccer stadium the Krafts hope to build in Everett.
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With the stadium property as a backdrop across the Mystic River, Wu on Monday held a press conference in Charlestown to express frustration with the slow progress of talks so far. The event came two weeks after Wu’s planning chief, Kairos Shen, raised many of the same concerns in a letter to Revs president Brian Bilello. After several meetings this year, the two sides now have a mediator, former Massport chief executive Tom Glynn, to help shepherd the discussions.
The Wu administration is frustrated by the lack of details for the nearly 25,000-seat stadium that the Kraft Group is planning on the site of a shuttered power plant in Everett, while the Revs ownership says many details won’t be ready until the start of state environmental permitting.
Before that can happen, the Krafts need to reach mitigation agreements with Boston and with Everett, per state legislation passed last year that enables a stadium to be built on the 43-acre site. Before starting negotiations with the city, the Kraft Group had offered $750,000 to improve athletic fields in Charlestown, a number that the Wu administration has declared woefully inadequate considering event traffic and other impacts the stadium would have on neighboring Boston.
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There's a kabuki theater element to this, but if Wu can shake the Krafts down for more dough, more power to her.
 
RandomWalk said:
This whole affair would be cleaner if the Krafts would sell the Revs.
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The Kraft Family's laissez-faire attitude towards building a soccer-only stadium for the Revs (or towards the Revs in general) long pre-dates Josh's mayoral run. The Revs are now one of just 8 of 30 MLS teams that haven't built a soccer-specific stadium (a number which will continue to shrink, as there are 3 more MLS stadiums currently being built). They've just never really cared all that much about maximizing the Revs and, even though they've finally started moving forward with a realistic stiadum plan, it's not something they're going to kill themselves for. If this thing end up failing because of a political grudge, they won't be all that bothered by it.
 
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New England Revolution, Wu administration clash over city’s information requests for new stadium - The Boston Globe

The Revs are pushing back against many of the requests that Wu's team has made amid negotiations over a new soccer stadium in Everett.
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On Thursday, Revs president Brian Bilello responded to a letter he received from Kairos Shen, Mayor Michelle Wu’s planning chief, in July asking the Kraft Group-owned Revs for data points related to the impacts of the stadium, to be built just over the line in Everett.
Bilello, in his response, reiterated his surprise at the tone of Shen’s request, saying he thought negotiations to reach a mitigation package had been positive and productive up to that point. And he provided a line-by-line breakdown of responses to the city’s requests for information, including several examples of where the Revs have already shared information or are waiting on the city to provide more clarity.
Bilello sent the letter as the talks shift into a mediation phase, refereed by former Massport chief executive Tom Glynn, as a result of state legislation passed last fall that would remove the riverfront property from an industrial port zone so a stadium could be built there. That legislation required the Revs to reach community mitigation agreements with the cities of Boston and Everett, and to bring in an outside mediator if deals couldn’t be reached by May 1.
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I think the stadium concept and location is great, but the render of the stadium looks 1980-ish. I'm guessing this is just a placeholder at this point, and the future renders will look better.
 
Charlie_mta said:
I think the stadium concept and location is great, but the render of the stadium looks 1980-ish. I'm guessing this is just a placeholder at this point, and the future renders will look better.
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Yes, feels dull and falling short of potential. If the stadium is slated for a 25,000 capacity, then for concerts, etc. it could become 30,000 (in the round with stage access underneath). Currently, for events that are best suited for indoors (concerts), 6 months of the year Boston can only offer up to 20,000 (TD Garden). Why not pressure Kraft for a dome? Aren't there newer translucent materials to cover the top that aren't prohibitively expensive? Why not create more potential? Casinos draw numbers that like concerts. The concert facility at Mohegan Sun can hold 10,000. Soccer and concerts result in one of the biggest serve cash cows out there... booze.
 
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It’s a shame we couldn’t get something with the architectural chops of San Siro.
 
It looks like it's related to that new building next to 93 in Assembly Row.
 
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