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LAFC Mulls HQ, Training Facility, Large Youth Sports Complex In Tustin, Calif.

The city of Tustin, Calif., "might land" the training facilities and HQ for MLS expansion club LAFC and also add "one of the largest youth athletic complexes in the nation," according to a front-page piece by Jordan Graham of the ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER. LAFC has "pursued a proposal to build the facility on 85 acres of Navy-owned land surrounding the north Tustin blimp hangar that was once slated to become a regional park." Club reps last summer "met with county and Tustin officials to propose a massive two-phase project that called for the construction of a 5,000- to 8,000-seat stadium, 18 sports fields, 12 baseball diamonds, a 'cutting-edge training and medical center' to 'host top athletes from around the world,' a sports research lab and center for sports medicine, three hotels, an enormous field house similar to the American Sports Center in Anaheim, and a promenade of restaurants, retail stores and apartments." LAFC President & co-Owner Tom Penn "compared the youth athletic facilities in the proposal to the 220-acre ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando and other portions to the IMG Academy sport training facilities in Bradenton, Fla. -- examples for which he said there are no equivalents on the West Coast." He added that the team is "looking at other Southern California locations for its headquarters and facilities but would not say where." He said that there is "no firm deadline to make the decision but that the new facility would need to be operational in time" for the team’s '18 inaugural season (ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, 7/27). Tustin in recent years has also had talks about a new ballpark for the Angels (THE DAILY).

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