Everything You Need to Know About David Beckham's Latest $1 Billion Stadium Pitch
If it feels like you've already spent a full college education watching David Beckham and his partners flail around for a place to build a soccer stadium, you are not hallucinating. Miami is now living through Year Five of Beck's never-ending Major League Soccer drama.
This season promises a new location, new political plotting, and the ever-more-likely prospect of a really bad name for the franchise. Beck's latest partner, construction magnate Jorge Mas, finally revealed some details about their latest plan last night. Here's the low-down on the project before a city commission vote later this week.
What exactly is Beckham pitching this time?
That's a great question, which Mas and Beckham's ownership group worked really hard to avoid answering from reporters until now. Even though they pitched city commissioners last month on the no-bid project, they refused to give details to reporters and carefully left nothing at City Hall so that public records requests were for naught.
Last night, Mas finally Tweeted out some specifics. The long-and-short of the plan: Beckham's group wants permission to redevelop the city-owned Melreese Golf Course just east of Miami International Airport into a huge soccer and technology complex.
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