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Tepper asking the city of Charlotte to pay for MLS stadium

Mr. Scot

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Disappointing. MLS should just accept the football stadium it’s obnoxious to require its own when it doesn’t matter. Also, if he can’t successfully pitch it to MLS as is, that’s on him. He’d need to offer part ownership to the city to approve something that hasn’t even been given to Tepper yet.

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Details from the above link...

According to David Hodges and Nick Ochsner of WBTV, Tepper’s representatives of the Panthers owner asked the City Council during a closed session Monday night for between $100 million and $200 million in city funds to help build a standalone soccer stadium.

MLS isn’t wild about playing in retrofitted football buildings, the rampant success in Atlanta aside.

The sources told WBTV the Council didn’t vote on the proposal, but did give approval for city staff to explore options to fund the project.

Tepper has also floated the idea of a new retractable roof football stadium, either a new building or a roof over Bank of America Stadium. When that happens, you can bet he’ll ask for some of that good old-fashioned “public-private partnership” money for that project too.

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Jourdan Rodrigue Retweeted Joe Bruno

And this report states that discussion with city council was in regard to retrofitting Bank of America Stadium for soccer - NOT a new MLS stadium in Charlotte, conflicting with WBTV report.

Jourdan Rodrigue added,

Joe BrunoVerified account @JoeBrunoWSOC9
BREAKING: During closed session Monday, Charlotte City Council received a briefing on potential renovations to Bank of America Stadium to make it compatible for MLS, multiple sources tell me #CLTCC @wsoctv
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Reports are now that the request was to retrofit BoA for soccer rather than build a standalone soccer stadium.

I really have no idea what they would need hundreds of millions for though to retrofit it for soccer. There have been plenty of international and preseason games there that went fine. The hell needs to be changed for soccer that would require that kind of money?

Unless this is the route he is attempting in order to get a roof.

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To be perfectly clear, I don't honestly care that much about soccer. But at least in this thread I don't have to go back and forth between trying to calm down people who are ready to throw Kyle Allen a victory parade and admonishing people who are ready to bury him the first time he throws an interception.

These other threads are starting to make me dizzy :poison:

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