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Ersal needs to build Eleven Park stadium privately. Will put mayor in a bind since it will be finished before the heliport subpar site begins Stadium construction.
100% agree. Mayor won’t even be in office when MLS considers Indy. Another egg in the face of the city.
Agreed. By the time MLS gets around to us the situation may have changed. Indy Eleven is Herr, popular, and supported by many fans.
Keystone has never built anything of this scale, and will likely be dealing with hundreds of remains. 87 were already found during minor preparation a week ago.
That’s the just of the problem. Ersal Ozdemir can’t afford to build Eleven Park as rendered soely by himself.
Chuck Surack (a billionaire) is now involved. Don’t ignore that.
He can afford to build just the stadium, probably not the rest of the planned developments around it.
Not a Democrat but this was a good result. Sometimes the best option isnt the first option.There may be some legitimate betrayal here but business is business and at the end of the day few will care if they got
It right. And they did.
I would argue a $1.5 billion riverfront development would be more impactful for the downtown area even if it doesn’t become MLS (but it should). World class cities have rivers and water as an amenity, not a boundary.
Ersal nor does anyone else in the city of Indianapolis have the money to privately fund a 250 million dollar soccer stadium, even more so for a minor league team.
Chuck does
Chuck’s primary interest is keeping the heliport around.
Besides the backstabbing double cross potentially, and likely costing Ersal millions of $…..another ‘flier’ on existing, functional property that includes eliminating the heliport. In the early-mid nineties a fifth of downtown was destroyed to build Circle Centre Mall at a tremendous cost. 30 years later it’s being destroyed to build some sort of low-rise neighborhood. A development that is better suited for Hamilton county, again for millions of $’s. What is the ‘thing’ that ‘everything’ MUST be developed within the shadow of Monument Circle? This CC council coerced, underhanded OK still needs state approval. This Hogsett last minute deal would have much better for the city and everyone with underdeveloped, less destructive property within a couple of miles of downtown. Cheaper, less prep cost, an opportunity to build up an area that could use it….like where Keystone has leveled the property.
Yes!
Ozdemir has been suckling off the public teat for years. Look no further than the white elephant parking garage in Broad Ripple that he convinced the Ballard mayoral administration to give him $6 million of taxpayers funds to subsidize its construction. And, of course, his proposed Indy Eleven development has a huge funding gap that he hoped to hit up the city to cover with even more public subsidies than what he initially proposed. Enough of these developers sticking their snouts in the public trough!
I know a MLS stadium will require another public subsidy when taxpayer funds should rightfully go instead to roads, schools, and parks, but if money is going to go out the door in any case, it is satisfying to see a little piggy like Ozdemir get what I hope is not a backstabbing so much as a stake through the heart.
More vampire developers need to be slayed this way until their endless bloodsucking from the taxpayers is permanently vanquished. The city owes loyalty to the taxpayers only, not to developers who are constantly hitting the city for public subsidies of their private developments. And, yes, Ozdemir was just playing the pickpocket the taxpayer game they all play, but it is about time developers like him start hearing no when they keep coming back asking for more.
I have always thought the old Lafayette Square site would be an ideal location for a sports facility. Fabio De La Cruz (Sojos Capital) and Ersal (Keystone) need to get together. Both would benefit from the alliance and the area would benefit from the investment. Offered in agreement with BSR’s comment about not “everything MUST be developed within the shadow of Monument Circle.
Great news! Seethe!!!!
You see, now the council and others are talking about building riverfront property on the Diamond Chain site. Dan boots said it repeatedly. This was never about the remains. It’s about a real estate deal.
The city would build over diamond chain so fast, it’d be embarrassing.
Congrats Dan Parker and Mayor, you got your legacy now. Soak in it til your fingers get pruney.
Mistake.
Now the land purchasing can begin…..Hogsett to Simon, “good thing you got advanced word of our plans so you could acquire the targeted property two months before I made my big announcement, and please remember your friends with a check.”