Moving this over.
“Old Wonderland greyhound track spurs new bets: on real estate”
“Newmark Knight Frank will accept offers in mid-September, and hopes to identify a winner by early October. The brokerage is marketing the place as a mixed-use development — akin to what has sprung up at the similarly sized Assembly Row property in Somerville — with offices, apartments, hotel rooms, restaurants, shops.”
-This is not going to be a new Seaport, Assembly, Northpoint... its tiny and far away from everything. Hopefully Kraft is lining this up because this is a great location for the soccer stadium with a patriots place type of deal around it. They could still throw up a couple office buildings here too so its mixed use with a patriots place, that would be great.
The stadium would actually be a positive by making this area the teams home location for a sport growing massively and bringing in thousands of new people for games. It would become a more important area than just being another small office/retail area without much land, and not that great of a location compared to others. Seeing that its so small and out of the way for an assembly type of development, I think the surrounding area would benefit more from a stadium that draws huge amounts of fans for soccer and the venue can also hold converts and other things.
The areas around stadiums are becoming cool spots for fans of teams to hang out even to just watch the game nearby the stadium to interact with other fans. Its making it so if you want to go to bars to watch the game, you have popular spots nearby the stadium that will have a heavy presence of fans. Soccer is a whole different animal too and its only going to grow more and more. I think this would be better for this area than just another small anonymous office park that fades into oblivion in the shadow of much better locations. You can have a little assembly anywhere, you can only have one sports stadium per team. I really hope this finally gets done, Bruce Arenas has said hes pushing hard for a stadium in 5 years, well see.