New Multi-sport Facility?

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That's using your assets in multiple ways. A smart and simple solution. Building a facility there? It won't go well. It also won't create 400 full time jobs.

I think you are spot on. I recall reading that Chelsea Piers in CT cost between 50-60 million to build, and they are struggling. Even though it is busy, there is only so much you can charge, which in turn means you can only make so much money. A place that costs three times what CP cost has no chance of surviving. This place won’t get built once they do their due diligence.

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I think you are spot on. I recall reading that Chelsea Piers in CT cost between 50-60 million to build, and they are struggling. Even though it is busy, there is only so much you can charge, which in turn means you can only make so much money. A place that costs three times what CP cost has no chance of surviving. This place won’t get built once they do their due diligence.

No bank will loan them the $ for this. It's a sure fire money pit.

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Read carefully, it says they are negotiating financial terms with the state dept of economic development and state DOT. Anyone who has dealt with the state can tell you it’s is dead in the water before it even starts

About time for Dannel to spend some more money the state doesn't have for something that is not needed isn't it?

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Fsa interns are busy tonight. Spin control

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Same guy who proposed Facility in Islip a few years back, how did that go?

About as good as the fields at CFC

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Read carefully, it says they are negotiating financial terms with the state dept of economic development and state DOT. Anyone who has dealt with the state can tell you it’s is dead in the water before it even starts

Agree...put this up there with the indoor complex in Southington and Berlin. Dead in the water. People love looking at the pics and dreaming.

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Same guy who proposed Facility in Islip a few years back, how did that go?

It didn't ...

However this guy also built Baseball Heaven on Long Island

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What is going to fill a 5,000 stadium in that part of the state?

You guys have no idea in what it takes to be a successful Entrepreneur.
Graduating from college with a degree in Business is half the work. I’m sure most here ended up in banking or something similar and now you believe you know everything in the corporate world. Building a sports facility in a highly populated area or a place of convenience is old school, Land space is impossible to find and if found would come at a premium requiring out of the world fees for activities while sacrificing attendance.
Nowadays the rewards for the Mom & Pops for their willingness to drive the extra distance is for a superior facility, reasonable fees , quality dining and adult interests while children activities is ongoing.
If we all were to listen to you pencil pushers we’d have a bunch Omar’s place all over the state stuffing ourselves with $2 hotdogs, flat sodas, busted car windows and youth soccer leagues with illegal South American adults participating as 16 year olds.

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You guys have no idea in what it takes to be a successful Entrepreneur.
Graduating from college with a degree in Business is half the work. I’m sure most here ended up in banking or something similar and now you believe you know everything in the corporate world. Building a sports facility in a highly populated area or a place of convenience is old school, Land space is impossible to find and if found would come at a premium requiring out of the world fees for activities while sacrificing attendance.
Nowadays the rewards for the Mom & Pops for their willingness to drive the extra distance is for a superior facility, reasonable fees , quality dining and adult interests while children activities is ongoing.
If we all were to listen to you pencil pushers we’d have a bunch Omar’s place all over the state stuffing ourselves with $2 hotdogs, flat sodas, busted car windows and youth soccer leagues with illegal South American adults participating as 16 year olds.

That proposal is about so much more than some soccer fields. It's folly that it's overall utilization will pay the mortgage.

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Graduating from college with a degree in Business is half the work .... to be a successful Entrepreneur.

Thanks professor! It is? If anything, I would bets its a four year delay. Graduating from college means nothing for most entrepreneurs. You either have a good idea, some luck, and the passion, or you don't. Four years and a piece of paper really offers little help for any true entrepreneurs. Their experience comes from trial and error and time invested in their ideas.

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You guys have no idea in what it takes to be a successful Entrepreneur.
Graduating from college with a degree in Business is half the work. I’m sure most here ended up in banking or something similar and now you believe you know everything in the corporate world. Building a sports facility in a highly populated area or a place of convenience is old school, Land space is impossible to find and if found would come at a premium requiring out of the world fees for activities while sacrificing attendance.
Nowadays the rewards for the Mom & Pops for their willingness to drive the extra distance is for a superior facility, reasonable fees , quality dining and adult interests while children activities is ongoing.
If we all were to listen to you pencil pushers we’d have a bunch Omar’s place all over the state stuffing ourselves with $2 hotdogs, flat sodas, busted car windows and youth soccer leagues with illegal South American adults participating as 16 year olds.

Anyone can write a business plan from Business Plans for Dummies.

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Anyone can write a business plan from Business Plans for Dummies.

And the only dummy is you because you’re posting on an anonymous board at your pencil pushing job. You have no vision and I’m sure you and your little friends were texting back and forth the same math leading up to the Election.
Trump had a vision and it worked but he could have simply sat at home like Hillary and followed your math right?

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That proposal is about so much more than some soccer fields. It's folly that it's overall utilization will pay the mortgage.

who said anything about soccer fields. the article only mentioned volleyball and basketball!!

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who said anything about soccer fields. the article only mentioned volleyball and basketball!!

Read much?

The sports venue would also house eight synthetic turf fields for soccer, lacrosse, flag football, softball and field hockey.

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Read much?

The sports venue would also house eight synthetic turf fields for soccer, lacrosse, flag football, softball and field hockey.

Clearly he did not. What wasn't in the article is that no sane bank will lend them the money, and getting approval will take forever. Even if something gets built it will end up being 1/3 the proposed size and will wind up a white elephant, providing at most 40-60 jobs.