NYCFC stadium in Bronx

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Bronx soccer stadium deal near Yankee Stadium offers big incentives to Arab firm


Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio will have 30 days after inauguration to ink a deal that would allow a stadium for the New York City Football Club to be built on city land — that would be rent-free for decades.

Will it be a last-minute gooooal in the Bronx for the Yankees and their Middle East sheik soccer partner?

City officials are scampering to sign a deal by the end of this month for $300 million in tax-free bonds that would allow the Yankees and a royal from the United Arab Emirates to tear down one of the bankrupt Yankee Stadium garages and build a Major League Soccer stadium, two sources close to the talks have told the Daily News.


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NYC FC STADIUM SITUATION
Garber: Club to announce permanent home probably 'shortly'


PHILADELPHIA -- Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber said Thursday that NYC FC probably will announce a permanent home "shortly."

During a break between the first and second rounds of the MLS SuperDraft at the Philadelphia Convention Center, Garber said the expansion, which will begin play in 2015, there was no delay in the team making a decision on a permanent home.

"There's not a delay," he said. "I think shortly they probably will announce a place. They're just finalizing all their details. They've got some time. They've got to get a great spot."

NYC FC had targeted a place just south of Yankee Stadium in the Bronx as a possible home to a $400 million, 28,000-seat soccer specific stadium, but club CEO Ferran Soriano said there were several possibilities within the five boroughs.

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