Menu
Facilities

Greyhound Race Track May Become Site For New MLS Revolution Stadium

Revere, Mass., Mayor Dan Rizzo “will try to acquire” the Wonderland Greyhound Park property in his casino negotiations with nearby Suffolk Downs racetrack “as the first piece of an ambitious plan to bring" the MLS Revolution to the town, according to Mark Arsenault of the BOSTON GLOBE. Rizzo is “negotiating mitigation payments with Suffolk Downs over plans to build” a $1B gambling resort at the thoroughbred track, which "straddles the city line” between East Boston and Revere. As mayor of one of the host cities, Rizzo has “tremendous leverage under state law to demand compensation from Suffolk Downs for accepting casino gambling in the community.” Suffolk Downs and city records show that the partnership that owns Suffolk Downs “also controls Wonderland, a 34-acre parcel entirely in Revere" and assessed at about $10.8M. Revolution Owner Robert Kraft has been “looking for several years for an urban location to build a new soccer-specific stadium, with the intention of moving the Revolution from cavernous Gillette Stadium in suburban Foxborough.” Kraft “explored building in Somerville as recently” as ‘10. The team has talked with Rizzo “about building at Wonderland if the city gets control of the land.” Team officials “believe they could draw 20,000 a game in an urban area,” and Revere “fits the bill as a densely populated community close to Boston, with the added attraction of a large number of immigrants from soccer-crazed Latin America and Brazil” (BOSTON GLOBE, 10/1).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2012/10/01/Facilities/Revolution.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2012/10/01/Facilities/Revolution.aspx

CLOSE