jake · 2005-06-13 NYS: Bloomberg lands late deal...
[quote]Bloomberg Lands Late Deal on Olympic Stadium
BY JILL GARDINER - Staff Reporter of the Sun
June 13, 2005
The Bloomberg administration announced an eleventh-hour deal last night to save the city's Olympic bid. It scraps its original plan for Manhattan and would make a new Shea Stadium for the Mets in Flushing the central sporting venue for the 2012 Summer Games.
After more than two years of pushing his proposal to build a stadium by the Hudson River on the West Side and months of trying to convince the legislative leaders in Albany to get on board with his plan, Mayor Bloomberg said the modified blueprint to accommodate the 2012 Games would be presented to the International Olympic Committee today.
The plan calls for the New York Mets, whose home games are played in an aging baseball field they have outgrown, to build and pay for a new, 40,000-seat stadium on their parking lot just east of the existing facility.[/quote] http://www.nysun.com/article/15280
jake · 2005-06-13
[quote]Bloomberg Lands Late Deal on Olympic Stadium BY JILL GARDINER - Staff Reporter of the Sun June 13, 2005 The Bloomberg administration announced an eleventh-hour deal last night to save the city's Olympic bid. It scraps its original plan for Manhattan and would make a new Shea Stadium for the Mets in Flushing the central sporting venue for the 2012 Summer Games. After more than two years of pushing his proposal to build a stadium by the Hudson River on the West Side and months of trying to convince the legislative leaders in Albany to get on board with his plan, Mayor Bloomberg said the modified blueprint to accommodate the 2012 Games would be presented to the International Olympic Committee today. The plan calls for the New York Mets, whose home games are played in an aging baseball field they have outgrown, to build and pay for a new, 40,000-seat stadium on their parking lot just east of the existing facility.[/quote]NYS: Bloomberg lands late deal...
http://www.nysun.com/article/15280