On February 21, Queens City Councilmembers Robert Holden and Vickie Paladino sent a letter to the New York City Independent Budget Office about the proposed New York City FC soccer stadium in Willets Point, which was one piece of the … Continue reading
Mets owner Steve Cohen’s quest to build something undisclosed atop the parking lots around Citi Field—psst it’s a casino—held its coming-out party on Saturday, as roughly 450 Queens residents and assorted Mets fans trooped through the stadium’s Piazza 31 Club to … Continue reading
One day after he fed the New York Times an exclusive about his deal with New York City F.C. to erect a new $780 million soccer stadium at Willets Point in Queens, Mayor Eric Adams, a panoply of elected officials, … Continue reading
If you haven’t been closely following New York state’s plans for a major redevelopment of Penn Station and the area around it, suffice to say, they are a lot. Initially proposed by then-Governor Andrew Cuomo as a vision for allowing … Continue reading
In the first few months of 2022, a rush of plans for new or renovated National Football League stadiums has shattered all-time records for levels of public funding provided to sports projects. First came the April approval of just over $1 … Continue reading
When Amazon announced that it had purchased the naming rights to Seattle’s newly rebuilt multipurpose arena in June 2020, it wasn’t the usual deal to slap a corporate moniker on a sports venue. First off, it wasn’t Amazon’s name going on the … Continue reading
Even for Albany, the endgame went fast. For the better part of three months, Governor Kathy Hochul had kept her plan to throw public money at a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills under wraps as the state budget progressed, … Continue reading
As Major League Baseball’s scheduled March 31 opening day looms nearer without a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), the nation’s sports media are pointing fingers squarely at both sides: the players’ union as well as team owners, who have been … Continue reading
When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation in December making Ohio the 33rd state to legalize sports gambling, the talk locally was less of opening up the joys of betting on who’ll score the Cleveland Browns’ first touchdown than of … Continue reading
Future generations, if there are any future generations, may one day look back at the Texas Rangers’ stadium as the first stadium designed for the Anthropocene epoch. Globe Life Field was built at a cost of $1.2 billion, nearly half of … Continue reading