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Sure I’d like MLS but after the new Eleven Park, it seems like massive confusion when planning. Maybe you should focus on road infrastructure which is a true need.
Road construction is always a talking point for people against other developments. One has to realize that roads although important dont help bring economic growth and money. The city needs amenities that generate dollars, so road repairs will always be seen as a secondary necessity. Im sure the roads around any major development would be perfectly paved.
The issue is that instead of those tax dollars going to fix the roads around the city, they instead go to the development. It’s a secondary reason why the roads in Marion County are so bad.
Joe—the singular large reason Indy roads need more money, is the state’s tax distribution formula. Which heavily-penalizes multi-lane roads. This consistent drumbeat you’re pushing…just isn’t accurate.
I don’t think you’ve read enough of my comments here if you think the redirection of taxes is my consistent drumbeat.
My consistent drumbeat is the formula, as is yours.
Proposed solution: continue with 11 Park as planned. Make sure it is an MLS viable stadium. If awarded an MLS franchise give Ozdemir a minority stake in exchange for the Indy 11 franchise and join MLS under that marquee. Everybody wins. Except Indy residents that gain no infrastructure or public safety improvements.
The planned Eleven Park stadium IS already a MLS viable stadium.
+1
MLS would never allow a USL team to carry its identity forward. End of story.
MLS is not interested in Indianapolis. Period.
MLS is interested in killing a stadium/they view as a feather in the cap of the USL. Killing that development is their only interest in Indianapolis from start to finish. ( see San Diego and Sacramento). In the end we will not have a MLS team and lose Indy Eleven and have no professional soccer in Indianapolis for years to come.
This thing smalls like the Delphi murder case. Rigged and doomed to fail unless the Eleven property is developed. Odzemir needs to be brought into Hogsett’s little secret circle of friends.
We have people pulling in opposite directions in a situation hat MLS couldn’t care less if Indy gets a spot or not. It’s like a 13 year old taking his basketball home in the middle of a neighborhood game.
What does that even mean?
This Odzemir from 10 years ago?
“He’s the master of public subsidy—getting public dollars into projects,” said a former high-ranking Keystone employee who spoke with IBJ on condition of anonymity. “But he wants everything to be completely closed book. His experience tells him you can do both.”
“Ozdemir’s approach can be frustrating even for government officials who are fond of him. Privately, they say he’s difficult to pin down in a deal and often tries to push terms after an agreement has closed.”
Let’s look at today’s story:
“City officials said the administration stopped negotiations with Keystone Group after determining there was “no viable path forward” for the project in terms of funding, citing an unspecified large gap.”
Let me take a wild guess – he didn’t have the money he claimed and tried to get the city to increase the public subsidy. The city decided instead to bail, especially with the knowledge that Ozdemir would never be able to land the MLS franchise.
https://www.ibj.com/articles/46528-no-holds-barred-tactics-lifted-developer-ozdemir
Not only is it wildly offensive and insane to compare a real estate deal to the brutal murder and assault of two girls, but Odzemir has been living off the public teat for *years*.
Exhibit A: Go to Broad Ripple and witness that failure of a parking garage he bamboozled the Ballard administration into giving him over SIX MILLION dollars of taxpayer money to help build.
Odzemir needs to use his own money to finish building his current project, and if along the way he can raise the funds for a stadium, great, and if not, too bad for him.
IBJ, please sent a reporter or two over the the proposed “heliport” stadium site and do some measuring. This is one of the many elephant in the room issues regarding the stadium proposal. Can it really fit at this site when parking, etc. is thrown in? This reminds me of the RCA Dome project in the early 80’s where city leaders offered assurances that the dome would be built to house football and baseball. But unlike the similar Metrodome in Minneapolis, built at the same time for the Twins and Vikings, the RCA dome did not have retractable seats one one side. And so baseball was not feasible.
Not a fan of Hogsett but it now appears there was more smoke and mirrors from Keystone Group. Sad to say it but it appears ” Eleven Park” is going to be a hole in the ground for years which will be more of an eyesore than Diamond Chain!