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Message: [QUOTE="kibblesnbits, post: 2813722, member: 97"] No, I'm suggesting that no one has suggested a site in extremely expensive and completely built out greater Boston (which, for this purpose, I'd consider to be within the reach of the MBTA subway system) that has good access, 20 or so acres and isn't valued at such an obscene amount of money that using it for a 20K soccer stadium makes no economic sense at all. Remember that the Red Sox, tried for over a decade to build a new ballpark in Boston before giving up and renovating Fenway. As far as the Revs go, the economic collapse of 2008 was probably the last chance to acquire such a property in the normal commercial marketplace (and even then land alone would have probably been a $100M+ exercise) and I wouldn't blame anyone that didn't want to plunk down an additional few hundred million for a soccer stadium in that market. Since then prices for commercial property in Boston have exploded. You may well be right that the only properties that would be close to economically feasible within the bounds of the subway system are in the East Boston, Everett, Revere area (and I don't see the owners of Suffolk Downs and similar properties calling for a stadium - they want mixed use commercial like everywhere else). That means essentially writing off the existing fan base as car access from the suburbs in any direction would be brutal and hoping that those millenials with $ in the urban core of the metropolitan area will go there. Everett is really out because, while it's within the bounds of the subway system, no line goes there. For East Boston and Revere, the primary access would have to be the Blue Line and I'll bet most urban millenials have never been on it. If they have, I'll virtually guarantee they've never been past the airport. The Blue Line, precisely because its primary service is the East Boston, Revere, corridor, is by far the least ridden subway line, carrying less than 1/3 as many riders as any of others. It's the step child of the MBTA. [/QUOTE]

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