Pro Iowa Soccer - Krause Development
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And really all they did was modernize an existing one didn't they?
its not a current trend, lol it’s been a thing around for awhile now.
And please find where I said they shouldn’t build it.
The amount of assumptions and putting words in my mouth is rather amusing and makes you look absolutely foolish.
What you're saying here is they lie about the cost and they lie bout the projections in order to get support.
Amazing why people don't support things like this sometimes.
For the record that area sucks balls and I'm fine with it. It's a 23 million dollar facility. Frankly that isn't that much. Ankeny spent that much on a pool not that long ago.
And the new stadium in DSM will be a huge draw for soccer in central Iowa with the additional fields. Between Cownie, the proposed complex in Grimes, the Rec Plex in WDM and the fields downtown, the DSM metro will be able to host major youth soccer events in the fall and spring.
The soccer stadium jobs will probably be contracted anyway, so low paying.
No kidding. I've been to one I-Cub Game since I moved back to Des Moines. AAA Baseball just does not interest me at all for the transient reasons you mentioned.
As for soccer, I went to plenty of USL games @ FC Cincinnati before they moved up to MLS. They had GREAT support as a USL Team.
Personally, I am looking forward to having USL Soccer in Downtown DSM in 2024! The support they will receive will surprise the casual Iowa Sporrtsfan IMO.
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I honestly have no idea on an occupancy rate as I don't work there but it does get a lot of business being one of the two or three "higher end" hotels in town. Our church is downtown so we regularly drive by it on Sunday mornings and although not slammed it always has traffic coming and going (during normal times). It has also become one of the big reasons the city has been able to bring in some conferences and tournaments. I believe several if not most of the recent D3 Baseball world series teams stayed there. From my employers side of things it is generally one of two hotels that our customers stay at when visiting.
I don't know if we need two or three more hotels in the downtown area but at least another one would probably be good. I am more excited for the brewery than anything.
This isn’t entirely true. The Des Moines team would be independent, at least at first, but the USL Championship is around half populated with MLS reserve sides. This might not matter to some people, but games against LA Galaxy II might not be as appealing to folks. Reserve sides take away from the integrity of the competition.
Great point about Cincy. Their fan support got them to MLS, even jumping ahead of places like Nashville, Austin and St. Louis.
FC Cincy would be absolutely best case scenario. That would be great, though I don’t see Des Moines being that successful. I’d like to be on par with Phoenix, draw 5,000 a game. If we market well maybe we can be like a Las Vegas or even a Louisville.
What really sucks about the I-Cubs is that the best prospects play for the AA team and get promoted straight to Chicago from there. The I-Cubs get the occasional rehabber and once in awhile someone like Rizzo makes a real leap, but most of the team are Minor League lifers and loyal soldiers.
That's basically every club now right? Seems like all of the top prospects go from AA to MLB and skip AAA or are just there until June the year they will be called up.
Didn't MLS make a new reserve league? Wouldn't that impact some of this stuff in the USL?
Yeah I believe so on the MLB front.
I missed that about MLS, I think you’re right. This article makes it sound like some teams will still keep a team in the Championship though. But that’s enough of a change to make my original point moot.
https://kennethrusso.com/2020/10/14/mls-to-create-new-reserve-league-starting-in-2021/
I’m not a big soccer person but just going off of my limited understanding. Aren’t most of the reserve teams really good too? Like don’t they tend to win the second divisions but can’t move up because their primary club is in the next league up?
I think the Red Bulls II won the USL one season. Other than that it’s just been regular clubs (although Orlando is now in the MLS and I think they were a dynasty before becoming Orlando City FC in the MLS)
Newsflash: Trends can last more than a few years.
You've gone full mynameisjonas, bud. Never go full mynameisjonas.
