clueless on Wed Feb 24, 2010 8:27 pm
TxRattlesnake wrote:Does anyone know of any soccer complexes that are profitable? Exclude the ones tied to a club, but complexes like Richland, UTD, Chinn/Chapel. I realize some are privateky owned others are city owned.
If the city of Irving turned the old Texas Stadium land into an elite soccer complex with 20 fields or more, could it eventually become profitable?
I was thinking along those lines when I'd heard the Silverdome was purchased for 500K and the plan was to possibly use it for soccer. I don't see how you could get enough soccer played in a depressed area like Pontiac, MI to pay for upkeep ($1.5 million) of that type of facility. That's the problem with buildings rather than fields, they require more maintenance. I would think that might be possible in North Texas from an economic standpoint - that would be way less than Texans/Andro's initial cost, but way more than their maintenance cost (I'm assuming).
Good Luck getting Texas Stadium for $500K, however. If you can, pm me and I'm in! That would be a pretty good location with lots of potential greenspace (i.e. probably good commerical location).
Richland is always in great shape (although, it's in worse shape than normal right now) - classic league pays a lot to keep that up - I do wonder if LHGCL pays less or what? Surprising they can't find fields better than they currently have. I wonder if, in future, all the leagues will go to turf on a permanent or even contigent basis - shame if it did happen, but at least the games would be played.
. Absurd is right.
). I guess the soccer gods just don't want us to play this game.
Those soccer gods need to have mercy on the girls.
