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Charlotte FC Pulls MLS HQ From Eastland Mall Site

Charlotte FC's MLS HQ will "no longer be located at the former Eastland Mall site" in Charlotte, as initially planned, according to a front-page piece by Getzenberg & Smoot of the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER. The club's development academy HQ -- Charlotte FC Elite Academy -- will "still be located at Eastland." It was "not immediately announced where the MLS headquarters would go or specified why the change of plans," but the Panthers are building a major sports complex in Rock Hill, S.C., that "would have ample room." It also has fields that Tepper Sports & Entertainment VP & COO Mark Hart has referred to as "'soccer pitches' -- to house the soccer team’s headquarters." Getzenberg & Smoot note the city of Charlotte has "reduced the amount it is reimbursing Tepper Sports for both the development of Eastland and uptown, including Bank of America Stadium renovations," from $110M to $35M. Assistant City Manager & Economic Development Dir Tracy Dodson said that moving the Charlotte MLS HQ from the Eastland site "ensures more land will be open to the public." That land "will be used as the Charlotte FC Elite Academy headquarters with community use of fields" as well as for "camps, clinics, festivals and tournaments operated by Tepper Sports" (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 10/26). 

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