urbanSTL

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you can go right ahead and find a nice suitable location for the team. I will work on the team name!



-rh





REAL ST. LOUIS

^ I still like the possibility of a stadium on the East Riverfront, or at the outskirts of downtown. As long as we get a team, though, and as long as the stadium isn't located west of the Missouri River, or even 270 ideally, then I'm okay with it.

rustedhinge wrote:314-

you can go right ahead and find a nice suitable location for the team. I will work on the team name!

I'd prefer if we spell out the city name. It looks more cultured.



REAL SAINT LOUIS

I vote for something besides "Real". Basically that was used (in my opinion) to ape Real Madrid and some of the other Spanish League teams. Make some sort of tenuous connection to Beckham, Ronaldo, Owen, Zidane, etc...



Except we (Salt Lake/St Louis) aren't Real Madrid, and unless we plan on spending $100 million for players, we never will be.

The Central Scrutinizer wrote:I vote for something besides "Real". Basically that was used (in my opinion) to ape Real Madrid and some of the other Spanish League teams. Make some sort of tenuous connection to Beckham, Ronaldo, Owen, Zidane, etc...



Except we (Salt Lake/St Louis) aren't Real Madrid, and unless we plan on spending $100 million for players, we never will be.

Someone on another forum mentioned that the team has a real connection to Real Madrid.

B.A. wrote:

The Central Scrutinizer wrote:I vote for something besides "Real". Basically that was used (in my opinion) to ape Real Madrid and some of the other Spanish League teams. Make some sort of tenuous connection to Beckham, Ronaldo, Owen, Zidane, etc...



Except we (Salt Lake/St Louis) aren't Real Madrid, and unless we plan on spending $100 million for players, we never will be.

Someone on another forum mentioned that the team has a real connection to Real Madrid.

I would be curious as to what it is.

The Central Scrutinizer wrote:

B.A. wrote:

The Central Scrutinizer wrote:I vote for something besides "Real". Basically that was used (in my opinion) to ape Real Madrid and some of the other Spanish League teams. Make some sort of tenuous connection to Beckham, Ronaldo, Owen, Zidane, etc...



Except we (Salt Lake/St Louis) aren't Real Madrid, and unless we plan on spending $100 million for players, we never will be.

Someone on another forum mentioned that the team has a real connection to Real Madrid.

I would be curious as to what it is.

So would I - unfortuntely, they didn't go into specifics.

I vote for FC SAINT LOUIS

or SAINT LOUIS FC



No mascot, just a cool crest

They could name it Real New Madrid.

MLS officials will be visiting today

By Tom Timmermann

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

07/16/2006



Expansion leaders: Jeffrey Cooper



(left) and Michael Huyghue are still



seeking a stadium deal.



Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber will be in St. Louis today on what an MLS spokesman termed an exploratory trip to meet with thegroup seeking to bring an expansion team here.



For the ownership group, it's a chance to show the league where it stands in acquiring a team.



"I look forward to sitting down and answering the league's questions with other interested parties," said Jeff Cooper, a lawyer from Alton who is leading the pursuit of an expansion team. "Hopefully we'll impress the league that we're very serious about bringing the MLS to St. Louis."



Garber will meet with Cooper and Michael Huyghue, the two leaders of the expansion effort, along with other potential members of the ownership group and civic officials to update them on their progress.



"We are excited about this," Cooper said. "We do think we are going to be able to convince the league St. Louis is the right market because it is Soccertown USA. We're excited that the league is going to come in. It's a good first step."



The group still needs to get a stadium deal worked out, since the league won't come here until that's taken care of. Sites on both sides of the Mississippi River are still being considered. Some cities have been able to have a team play at a temporary site while a new stadium is being built, but St. Louis does not have a suitable interim facility.





Link to entire article

With the new slu arena going on i doubt this would be possible...but it seems logical that Slu and this new MLS team could share a stadium...Is there anyway to expand the current slu soccer stadium...

How much would a suitable facility cost for an MLS team? How many seats?



Would the new SLU arena be suitable? I know they are making that a multipurpose facility but it might not have enough floor space for MLS soccer.

St.Louis UAB alumni wrote:How much would a suitable facility cost for an MLS team? How many seats?



Would the new SLU arena be suitable? I know they are making that a multipurpose facility but it might not have enough floor space for MLS soccer.

^Ya that wouln't work...soccer fields are way to big..like the rams trying to play in Savvis.



I think the mls soccer stadiums seat around 20,000

bpe235 wrote:With the new slu arena going on i doubt this would be possible...but it seems logical that Slu and this new MLS team could share a stadium...Is there anyway to expand the current slu soccer stadium...

If they received a substantial portion of the funding from the MLS ownership group and breaks from the city, I guess it could work.



Creighton recently built a pretty cool stadium on its campus - maybe a larger version of this would be possible:

Wow, it even has SLU inspired design, as seen in picture #2.

I dig the highrise in the background...modern, glass, and actually lit up at night...great pics of the stadium..thankz

Going based on memory, I think some recent soccer stadiums were built in the $35 million range.

I found this on the Chicago Fire web site about their new stadium:

The Fire are slated to move into TOYOTA PARK, a world-class soccer stadium and concert venue at the corner of 71st & Harlem in the Village of Bridgeview, in the spring of 2006. The stadium will be developed at a cost of approximately $70 million and will seat 20,000 fans for soccer

Source:

http://chicago.fire.mlsnet.com/MLS/chf/stadium/

I thought I saw that Columbus stadium was about $35 million. Like I said though, I could be wrong. The $70 million price tag seems more accurate.

trent wrote:I thought I saw that Columbus stadium was about $35 million. Like I said though, I could be wrong. The $70 million price tag seems more accurate.

You could still be right. The Columbus stadium is a fair bit older, built about 7-8 years ago, IIRC.

According to www.ballparks.com (sorry I couldn't link directly), the cost of the Columbus Crew's 25,134 seat stadium was $25 million and was completed in 1999.

Jeff Cooper was on Bernie Miklasz's radio show on Friday to promote the St. Louis Derby, and he and Bernie briefly discussed his plans to bring an MLS team to St. Louis. He mentioned that his group has been exploring locations downtown and that their first choice would be to locate north of the Dome in the Bottle District area.

DeBaliviere wrote:Jeff Cooper was on Bernie Miklasz's radio show on Friday to promote the St. Louis Derby, and he and Bernie briefly discussed his plans to bring an MLS team to St. Louis. He mentioned that his group has been exploring locations downtown and that their first choice would be to locate north of the Dome in the Bottle District area.

Are you kidding? Say you're not kidding!!!! That would be PERFECT! Where do I sign up for season tickets?

Edward Jones Dome and the Convention Center already create a barrier cutting development north of downtown. Now all we need is another super structure that is empty most of the time near the bottle district to stiffle development/expansions steming from the POSSIBLE development of the Bottle District. My Worst fear: MORE SURFACE LOTS NORTH OF DOWNTOWN.... seeing as people can't walk from south of the Jones Dome to the new stadium 1/4 mile away....