| Show Real stadium should be in J Jeren eren W. W Canning Managing Ed Editor tor Bravo to Salt Lake County Salt Lake City and Sandy for finally striking a deal to build Real Salt Lakes Lake's soccer stadium Sure Real Salt Lake gets their own stadium so they can charge outrageous amounts of money for 12 ounce cups of adult beverages and so they can build a huge soccer Mecca around the stadium The stadium will be built at approximately South State Street and is isto isto isto to be surrounded by severa several soccer fields for little league games Another part of the new stadium deal deans is that Real Salt Lake Lak teamed with partner Real Madrid will build a school for soccer players The deal to build the stadium is everything that the county and the team hoped for But their choice to build the stadium in Sandy was a bad idea I dont don't remember the soccer team being named Real Sandy so wh why is the stadium being built there Real Salt Lake fielded other proposed sites for their stadium There was a proposal to simply renovate Rice-Eccles Rice Stadium again to transform it into a sport multi-sport facility instead of a football- football specific facility But that would have ruined an incredible stadium that the university worked hard to finally rebuild Another proposal was to build it at the Utah State Fair Park This proposal was two First it had hada a up back-up plan built in Should Real Salt Lake fold or move out of town the stadium at the fair park could be transformed into a concert venue The Theother Theother Theother other plus was to keep the fair park which has been in danger of folding for several years If the fair park should fold then ownership of the land could be transferred The third proposal came from Sandy who ultimately won the sta stadium ium because they offered the largest plot of land for the stadium The final proposal came from Salt Lake who offered a dilapidated block of land downtown at South Main Street Aside from the main advantage to the stadium being basically in downtown Salt Lake the stadium would be assisted by which travels along South Altho Although gh the smallest lot of the proposals the downtown location would have been much better for Salt Lakes Lake's economy The southern end of Salt Lake is in dire need of revitalization Ten years ago the city rebuilt then-Dirks then Field and fed life into an area area of the city that was in bad shape Today the area around Franklin-Covey Franklin Field Fied is an area with many businesses and offices The same same could have been done to the block proposed for the soccer stadium but instead the county decided to award it to Sandy Undoubtedly the soccer stadium in Sandy will willbe willbe be bc incredible They h have havethe havethe ve the room there to build a proverbial Field of Dreams The location of the new stadium will also be kind of ironic considering Real eal i iSalt Salt Lake owner co-owner Dave Checketts feels that Larry Miller tried to ruin the stadium deal so he could buy the team Miller owns the Jordan Commons complex which sits directly across State Street from the site of the soccer stadium r f |
