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Re: Site in Hub top choice for a soccer stadium

Cobean said:
https://www.thebentmusket.com/2018/7/17/17581982/revolution-stadium-rumor-2018-boston-garden-celtics

Speculation, but hopefully a deal is near. What site could he be referring to? The Hood milk area? Inner belt?
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Some people on my feed are taking "near the Garden" way too seriously as if he meant next to the Garden in Boston where there's no room at all. I'm pretty sure he's talking about Inner Belt, as Inner Belt is definitely "near the Garden" to someone from Miami and it had come up in conversations before.

Sean Sweeney from BSJ is covering this beat today:
https://twitter.com/MrSeanMSweeney

A spokeswoman in Boston Mayor Marty Walsh's press office writes, "Mayor Walsh has always said that he’s interested in building a soccer stadium in Boston, however there is currently no proposal before the city." #NERevs
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Spokesperson for Cambridge Mayor McGovern: "Our office has not been contacted (by the Krafts)." Message left for the City Manager. Spokesperson for City of Somerville: "No one here has heard anything." #NERevs
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Messages left in the Everett Mayor's office as well as with the Chelsea City Manager. #NERevs
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Spokesman for Chelsea City Manager: "No one (from the Krafts) has reached out to us about that happening here in Chelsea." #NERevs
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Not sure if it's big enough, nor would it be the highest and best use, but the National Grid site in Malden?
 
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This is definitely not big enough, but it would be cool to see something of the sort done with Draw 7 Park at Assembly. Used to be a nice little pitch until the Snowpocalypse of 2015, when it was used as a dumping ground for plow operations. And nothing was the same. IRRC they haven't even bothered to replace the goals.

But imagine getting off a train at Assembly, you got your shopping, your gambling, your game, and your summer concert venue all in one place.
 
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As there's little available land in the city for this that wouldn't be better used for something else (housing for example), how about Worcester? If they don't win the PawSox, they do have a parcel of land available that would have been used for a new minor league baseball stadium. Perhaps a win-win for all concerned.
 
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I know this would never happen but if they just built a 25,000 seat stadium with very little parking, could it fit at the old Spaulding Rehab site directly behind the Garden?
 
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BosDevelop said:
I know this would never happen but if they just built a 25,000 seat stadium with very little parking, could it fit at the old Spaulding Rehab site directly behind the Garden?
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So basically let's take an area that has the highest FAA limits in town, no "shadow on the parks" concerns, right next to major transit lines, and build..... a soccer stadium for a 2nd rate (at best) league? Sounds like a terrible use of this land.
 
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This is DC United's just-opened stadium, with a footprint.

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This is fairly close to the Nationals ballpark, and a Metro stop.

Land was relatively cheap. But not enough land to construct a practice facility adjacent.
 
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stellarfun said:
Land was relatively cheap. But not enough land to construct a practice facility adjacent.
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On this point - Bilello has said that even when the Revs get a stadium in Boston, the practice facility at Gillette would remain (currently being upgraded, actually). So, with that, all the land we need to source in the Boston-metro is just for the stadium, like Audi Field in DC.
 
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I compared sites around boston with the size of portland's relatively small but upwardly expandable SSS. It would fit in the pic above, it would fit next to the garden, it could fit next to assembly sq, it would fit in readville with some changes, it could fit in the bus lot at forrest hills, it could fit at suffulk downs a few times over, it could fit in the space left by the reroute of the highway in alston, it could fit at widet circle. there are plenty of unbuilt places in and around the city it could fit.
 
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coleslaw said:
I compared sites around boston with the size of portlands relatively small SSS. It would fit in the pic above, it would fit next to the garden, it could fit next to assembly sq, it would fit in readville with some changes, it could fit in the bus lot at forrest hills, it could fit at suffulk downs a few times over, it could fit in the space left by the reroute of the highway in alston. there are plenty of unbuilt places in and around the city it could fit.
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I can't get Providence Park to fit at Assembly/parcel across the tracks. Where do you have in mind?

Arborway Garage is a big no no. The T is severely short on bus storage already. They're actually in the market for a new bus facility too.
 
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Wonderland dog track site Revere?
 
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Like clockwork, this thread comes alive in June/July every fourth summer. The locations being proposed today in the summer of the Russian World Cup are many of the same ones proposed when this thread started back in the summer of the German World Cup. And yet nothing ever actually happens.

It's as if Samuel Beckett were a Revs fan...
 
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JumboBuc said:
Like clockwork, this thread comes alive in June/July every fourth summer. The locations being proposed today in the summer of the Russian World Cup are many of the same ones proposed when this thread started back in the summer of the German World Cup. And yet nothing ever actually happens.

It's as if Samuel Beckett were a Revs fan...
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You made me go back and look at page 1 of the thread. 2006, Ron Newman, ablarc.... wow.
 
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datadyne007 said:
On this point - Bilello has said that even when the Revs get a stadium in Boston, the practice facility at Gillette would remain (currently being upgraded, actually). So, with that, all the land we need to source in the Boston-metro is just for the stadium, like Audi Field in DC.
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That would make sense. If the Revs move to an urban stadium, chances are there will not be enough space for practice soccer fields adjacent to the stadium.


Went to my first Revs game in about 15 years on Saturday. Solid crowd that would have sold out almost every other MLS stadium. Atrocious defense by the Revs and Galaxy and of course the Revs somehow gave up 2 goals in extra time to lose. That's a discussion for another day. Point being is that the Revs do not need a soccer specific stadium to draw fans. Would it help with atmosphere? Sure. One of the biggest reasons soccer stadiums, especially those in Europe, are so loud is the roof coverings push the sound back down onto the field. But I saw a ton of plates from Rhode Island and Connecticut in the parking lots. SO they're definitely drawing from people outside of 128.
 
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Rover said:
As there's little available land in the city for this that wouldn't be better used for something else (housing for example), how about Worcester? If they don't win the PawSox, they do have a parcel of land available that would have been used for a new minor league baseball stadium. Perhaps a win-win for all concerned.
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How about build housing in Worcester and a stadium in Boston? Boston has more housing than we know how to move people around for.
 
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tangent said:
How about build housing in Worcester and a stadium in Boston? Boston has more housing than we know how to move people around for.
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Who wants to live in Worcester?
 
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