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August 14, 2012
Queens MLS stadium could start construction by spring! Or not
Field of Schemes
by Neil de Mause
Neil de Mause's report on efforts to locate a soccer stadium in Queens' Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (since New York City has plenty of surplus park space, we're guessing) elicited this comment from reader John Bladen:
Surely the MLS guys are missing the obvious here, Neil? I mean, Citi Field has been in place for, well, several years now. It clearly qualifies as a blighted landscape (as would the rest of the park and Arthur Ashe stadium) under the court approved process used by Mr. Ratner to ram through his Atlantic yards proposal (which, of course, hasn’t been finished, and will never be finished as it was originally designed and sold to the public… or at least the legislators who gave approval).
I say, use eminent domain. Declare the whole complex (including the trees, which are a danger to lightning, in the words of the late great Spike Milligan) blighted, evict the moribund tenants, bulldoze everything, and build whatever you want.
Is this a Big Time City or isn’t it?
Posted by eric at August 14, 2012 10:29 AM