الأحد، 7 أكتوبر 2012

City Council approves MLS plan - Portland Business Journal:

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The move effectively decouplesthe $37 million PGE Park project from a proposef new $48 million baseballp park for Paulson’s minor-league Portland Beavers. Both the Beaverw and Paulson’s minor-league soccer franchise the sharedPGE Park. But because MLS requires soccer-specifi stadiums for its franchises, Paulson is pursuinf separate stadium projects for both But efforts to find a location for the baseballk parkhave stalled, leading to concernws that Paulson could miss his 1 deadline to secure a financinf plan for PGE Park. The MLS team would starrt playin 2011. Earlier attempts to placwe the stadium at the RoseQuartef failed.
Then late last week, Paulsonb announced he was pulling a requestr to locate the stadium in the Southeasrt Portland neighborhood of Lents after public support appearefd to turn againstthe plan. Paulsojn said he was committed to keepinb theBeavers “in Portland or the Portland evoking the specter that the club could leave the city limits. That led to a verbal rebukde from Commissioner RandyLeonard — a one-time ardentt supporter of the MLS plan — who threatened to withdraw his support for the PGE Park plan unlesss Paulson reconsidered.
But now the city appears to be looking into possiblsthird sites, and Leonard supported the resolution The bill passed 4-1, with Commissioner Amanda Fritz casting the lone opposition Paulson, in a statement, said he looks forwars to working with city officials on a financing deal for PGE Park.

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