MLSSOCCER.com’s Adam Serrano reported Chivas USA confirmed that club owners “are in active conversations with multiple communities in Los Angeles regarding a potential new home” for the team, which has shared The Home Depot Center with the Galaxy since joining MLS six years ago. Chivas USA Managing Partner Antonio Cué said, “We will study all the locations and when we are ready to make a move then we'll let everyone know. We're not ready now though because all of (the cities) seem to be pretty good” (MLSSOCCER.com, 7/7).
TARGET HOUSING: In Minneapolis, Jennifer Bjorhus reports developer Hines Interests has submitted “early plans to the city of Minneapolis to build a 185-unit apartment building called Dock Street Apartments near Target Field as part of a larger development that eventually would include offices, more residential buildings and retail.” It is the “first glimmer in several years of the plans for a new transit-oriented urban community that stalled out as the recession took hold.” Landowners first pitched the idea, then called "Twinsville," about 10 years ago (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 7/8).
SPECIAL SESSION: In Minneapolis, Sid Hartman writes “look for a special session of the Legislature to be called by Gov. Mark Dayton in September to vote” on the proposed Vikings stadium in Arden Hills. The September date “might be a better time to pass a bill if the Vikings are playing football by then and have won a couple of games.” Hartman notes before Dayton calls the special session, he “would want to be sure that the bill will pass” (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 7/8).
GEARING UP: On Long Island, Robert Brodsky notes with a "little more than three weeks to go before an Aug. 1 referendum" on Nassau County’s move to borrow $400M to build a new arena for the Islanders, proponents including labor unions "have mapped a plan that includes a flood of phone calls and door-to-door campaigning.” Nassau-Suffolk Building and Construction Trades Council President James Castellane said, “This is a very coordinated effort. This is just as important to us as a presidential election.” Labor unions, which are “counting on the development for construction jobs, are gearing up to provide the ground troops to support the referendum” (NEWSDAY, 7/8).
