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Mapfre Stadium Land Negotiations Separate From Crew's Facility

Land for the City of Columbus' proposed recreation sports park at Mapfre Stadium -- the "major piece of the new Crew Stadium deal that wasn't supposed to directly benefit the team -- is now being negotiated separately from the team's adjacent practice facility," according to Bill Bush of the COLUMBUS DISPATCH. While the city has "no deal for needed state land for the sports park," the Crew's new $29M, private Mapfre practice center is "already under an agreement with the state of Ohio that has expired once, with a current two-month extension set to expire again at the end of November." Neither the city nor the team "has a long-term lease for the state land they need for the projects." Ohio Expositions Authority board member Steve Reinhard said that the land for the team's new facilities is "now begin negotiated separately from the December 2018 proposal to convert the bulk of the parking lot into a city of Columbus Recreation Department sports park ... which controls the Ohio State Fairgrounds land." But the city's sports park and the Crew's private Mapfre practice facilities were "always presented to the public as a single project" (COLUMBUS DISPATCH, 11/10).

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