Poor olde Bob Lenarduzzi. While everyone else doesn't have the cash for a team (St. Louis) or has to rely on public funds for a stadium (everyone else), the Vancouver Whitecaps owner seems to be the only man standing with enough dollars to do both yet he still can't get no satisfaction. And as more time passes, it certainly feels like his MLS chances are dimming.
He's gotta be hating it. I mean here is a guy who has stated repeatedly and publicly that he'll build a house with his own money, yet keeps getting cock-blocked by the alleged civic utopia that he calls home. And all the while the list of cities vying for those fleeting few MLS expansion spots keeps growing as if it where written in Chia.
Philadelphia in particular is getting on his last good nerve, what with their sure-to-dazzle waterfront stadium looking more like a reality these days. Or at least that's how this piece on Canada.com makes it sound. Nice to see that the City of Brotherly love can unnerve someone other than T.O.
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Blame Canada!
I find it total bull that he can't get this thing built. It's a perfect reuse of land, has easy access to all three of Vancouver's mass transit systems, and the views across to the north shore? Priceless!
He said ballin'.
Why is he wasting him time and money on Vancouver if the city doesn't support him. He should tell them to shove it.
Personally, I'd love to see a team in Vancouver, a Vancouver - Seattle rivalry is exactly what MLS needs but if Vancouver's city council can't see past their needle exchanges so be it.
There's some misinformation on these posts regarding Vancouver City Council scuttling Greg Kerfoot's waterfront stadium plans. The issue at the moment is the proposed exchange of land between the Whitecaps and the Port Authority -- namely, an exchange of Kerfoot-owned railyards land for the Port Authority-owned helijet pad land, which is a proposed stadium site. The issue appears to be that the two parties can't agree on the land exchange, evidently because the Kerfoot-owned land has a much higher market value.
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