New York Cosmos Stadium

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New York Cosmos Stadium
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New York Cosmos Stadium
Location Elmont, New York
Coordinates 40°42′31.5966″N73°43′33.747″W / 40.708776833°N 73.72604083°W / 40.708776833; -73.72604083
Operator New York Cosmos
Capacity 25,000
Construction
Architect Populous / Spector Group
Structural engineer Cameron Engineering
General contractor Turner Construction Company / McKissack & McKissack
Tenants
New York Cosmos (NASL)

The New York Cosmos Stadium was a proposed 25,000-seat soccer-specific stadium and multipurpose facility. [1] It was to be located in the New York metropolitan area in Nassau County, just over the city border. [2] [3] Plans were submitted to New York's Empire State Development Corporation. Upon completion, it would have been the home stadium of the New York Cosmos. [4] The plan was abandoned in 2016.

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Plan

The stadium was intended to be part of a privately financed $400 million [3] [5] entertainment complex known as Elmont Town Crossings, designed to be built within Belmont Park. Along with the stadium, the project would have included a Cosmos museum, nearly 250,000 square feet of retail space and restaurants, a 175-room hotel, a pedestrian bridge over Hempstead Turnpike, better road access along the Hempstead Turnpike and Cross Island Parkway, improvements to the LIRR Belmont Park station, new parking space, a new 4.3-acre park, a youth soccer field, and remodeled recreational soccer fields nearby. [6] Team officials said the project would have created 500 construction jobs and 3,000 permanent, full-time jobs. [7]

A team [8] [9] of architects, engineers, and contractors were assembled for the stadium project including Populous, the Spector Group, Cameron Engineering, Turner Construction Company, and McKissack & McKissack. [10]

Uses

The Cosmos had said the stadium would be host not only to their own matches but also to national and international soccer events, other sports (such as rugby and lacrosse), music concerts, and other local sports teams. [11] [12]

Given the site's location away from subway lines, and close only to a infrequently-serviced Long Island Rail Road spur line, soccer consultant Jeff L’Hote questioned whether it would be "an attractive location" for a soccer stadium. [2]

Sports commentators speculated that, once built, the Cosmos stadium might be used as leverage to join Major League Soccer on favorable terms if the league was unable to build its own a stadium in the city. [13] [6]

Timeline

In 2012, the New York Empire State Development Corporation issued a request for proposals (RFP) to develop an area of underutilized land at Belmont Park. In January 2013, the New York Cosmos submitted their plan. [14]

While the RFPs were being evaluated, the New York Cosmos began play at James M. Shuart Stadium at Hofstra University. The new stadium was originally aimed to be completed in 2015 and opened by 2016, [15] but had to be pushed back as time elapsed without a decision from the ESDC. [16]

In November 2015, the ESDC asked all bidders to revise and re-submit their proposals. The Cosmos revised their plan to remove one parcel of land. [17] The project was one of four proposals resubmitted to the ESDC. [17]

On December 9, 2016, the Empire State Development Corporation officially withdrew the RFP, rejecting all four plans. [18] After a second round of proposals (in which the Cosmos did not participate), the NHL's New York Islanders were chosen in December 2017 to develop the site with an 18,000 seat arena. [19]

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  2. 1 2 Belson, Ken (January 17, 2013). "Cosmos Unveil Plan for Soccer Stadium Near Belmont Park". The New York Times. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
  3. 1 2 Bondy, Filip (January 16, 2013). "NY Cosmos plan $400 million, 25,000-seat soccer stadium at Belmont Park racetrack". NY Daily News.
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  14. ↑ TICC. "Cosmos submit stadium plan for Belmont". Thisiscosmoscountry.
  15. ↑ Moller, Vickie (August 8, 2013). "$400 Million Soccer Stadium Proposed for Long Island". Long Island.com.
  16. ↑ Lewis, Michael (September 1, 2014). "BACK-UP PLANS: Cosmos looking into other stadium possibilities if Belmont is not approved; they're still optimistic". BigAppleSoccer.com. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016.
  17. 1 2 "REVISED PLANS Report: Cosmos give NY state new proposal for Belmont stadium". Big Apple Soccer. December 14, 2015. Archived from the original on June 4, 2016. Retrieved May 6, 2016.
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