Is a privately funded stadium Downtown the only answer?

fuegote · 05-03-2006, 01:15 PM

Boy this has me really excited.

I can't wait until all of a sudden, another site is found in SLC and then the polit-whackos from sandy will start to fight against that.

this is going to be a SL v Sandy matchup and RSL will be forced to move because of these idiots who have to show everyone who has the biggest ****. yes I actually said **** this time.

AreliusIV · 05-03-2006, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by fuegote

Boy this has me really excited.

I can't wait until all of a sudden, another site is found in SLC and then the polit-whackos from sandy will start to fight against that.

this is going to be a SL v Sandy matchup and RSL will be forced to move because of these idiots who have to show everyone who has the biggest ****. yes I actually said **** this time.

What was it he said?...

fuegote · 05-03-2006, 01:26 PM

It was a 1280 sports update. So no quotes.......

...yet.

SoccerPrime · 05-03-2006, 01:27 PM

Yes, yes,,,but doesn't RSL still need a happy SL County if they are ever going to get any Hotel Tax money for the stadium, regardless of where the stadium is in SL County?

Otherwise, wouldn't it make sense for RSL to go to another county (Utah County anyone)?

Stucki · 05-03-2006, 01:34 PM

It is on the trib website now.

SoccerPrime · 05-03-2006, 01:34 PM

lifted from RSL FM on BS:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_3780305
Breaking: County mayor pulls plug on soccer stadium
By Derek P. Jensen
© 2006, The Salt Lake Tribune

Real Salt Lake's hopes to tap hotel-tax money to build a soccer stadium in Sandy are dead.
Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon announced Wednesday that the "numbers just don't work" for county taxpayers, so he is ending negotiations with the Major League Soccer team.
That means RSL will not get the $35 million in public financing from the county to use toward land and infrastructure for the $145 million soccer-and-entertainment complex.
"For the citizens of Salt Lake County," Corroon said, "we didn't feel it was fiscally prudent."
Team officials could not be reached for comment, but the county mayor said he informed RSL Chief Executive Officer Dean Howes on this morning of his decision. Corroon said Howes expressed his disappointment.
Corroon noted that RSL still could secure public financing for the stadium if Sandy or the County Council opted to put the issue on the ballot this November. In that event, voters would have to decide whether to raise their property taxes for the venture.
Corroon said he also left messages for Sandy Mayor Tom Dolan, Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. and legislative leaders about his move.
Utah House and Senate leaders shepherded a bill through the 2006 Legislature that provided a 1.25 percent jump in the hotel tax rate - ostensibly to provide funding for the Sandy stadium.
RSL is in its second season of play at its temporary home at the University of Utah's Rice-Eccles Stadium. Team and league officials have warned that if RSL fails to get its own stadium, the franchise would have to move.
Corroon's decision comes after RSL's operating model was leaked to The Salt Lake Tribune. Those financial numbers show the team is losing millions a year and doesn't expect to turn its first profit - $11,000 - until 2010, two years after its expected move to a Sandy stadium. By 2015, RSL predicts a profit of $2.3 million.
The team also is banking on booming ticket sales - projections that many observers criticize as overly optimistic.
RSL was outraged over the leak of its finances and complained that the numbers were proprietary.

Breaking...
http://www.sltrib.com/contentlist/ci_3780110
SL Trib/Jacob Santini/"special update": Soccer funding issues start to irk Sandy
[clips]
"It just seems like nobody cares when the suburban cities have to pay in as long as it goes to downtown Salt Lake City," Dolan said. "We just feel a little unappreciated."
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City officials have said they are willing to look at increasing their share, particularly because no deal has been finalized.

Deuce · 05-03-2006, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by SoccerPrime

Yes, yes,,,but doesn't RSL still need a happy SL County if they are ever going to get any Hotel Tax money for the stadium, regardless of where the stadium is in SL County?

Otherwise, wouldn't it make sense for RSL to go to another county (Utah County anyone)?

Yes I can see it now... RSL build a stadium in Eagle Mountain... YEAH!!!!
I can see the thirty mile traffic jam through Lehi and on Redwood road already!

Watch out Merrill they are coming your way!

Either that or we get to buy our tickets for flights to Cleveland or St. Louis.

Thanks folks...

fuegote · 05-03-2006, 01:57 PM

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"It just seems like nobody cares when the suburban cities have to pay in as long as it goes to downtown Salt Lake City," Dolan said. "We just feel a little unappreciated."

I wonder if there will be a Sandy backlash if it's built downtown. what's the geographic ticket purchasing area. I would be curious to see what city contributes to most tix at RES.

fuegote · 05-03-2006, 02:00 PM

This is seriously rucking fetarded.

xlyte · 05-03-2006, 02:05 PM

i say we sell out like the redbulls, let the investers pay the new stadium and welcome the ogden oreos =P

not that i am bias about getting the stadium up near me :P