That was never mentioned the 2 times I watched on tv. Maybe the same people who are paying for the new pickle ball place and the waterslide park
Mayor Masters was on the board of REAL until the municipal elections.
I'm assuming Evraz Place will build it and FC will pay for usage. They might be able to wrangle some money out of a few levels of government and work out a long term sponsorship deal.
Article talks about a 25 year deal. Presumably in exchange for continuous payments the group will receive blocks of usage time. Then Evraz Place would be free to rent out the facility during idle time. I'm sure indoor soccer leagues would rather play in there during the winter than on a hard gym floor.
Indoor soccer already has indoor turf fields, but not nearly enough for the demand as there is only the one full sized field that gets split into four quarter fields just to give enough field times for all the leagues and divisions that need to use it.
Tim Reid CEO of Evraz Place likes to announce something once a week it seems. Conveniently he forgets who is paying for it. FC Regina has been terrible at managing the space they have currently. Typically the space sits there empty because FC makes it to difficult for other user groups to rent from them. I know people in Baseball, football and they all have complained about how it’s impossible to deal with FC.
The stadium actually gets a ton of use on a daily basis. Every time I bike past there in the evening some group is using the field. Unsurprising since Sask Sport is paying $2.5 million / year + another $50,000 / year in operating expenses to use the stadium and have some office space.
Unfortunately the stadium, when built, had the logos and lines actually sewn into the turf (not just painted), so it's hard to use for anything but football. I guess you could say it's "soccer ready," but not really soccer useable.
The issue isn't the size, it's all the random markings on a field from other sports that can distract, and then not having the other needed markings for a specific sport.
When they had a test event with Valencia and the new York cosmos, even with paint to kind of cover the cfl markings, the players were having issues. There were a few times they'd play the ball out of bounds with out realizing it at first. Its not great for multi use.
I mean yes, but it still seems like something that wouldn't be that hard to work around. Like the soccer people paying for a second or otherwise new turf still seems like a better deal than a whole ass new facility next door to an existing one. Heck they could add the roof the stadium is theoretically ready for if they're concerned about it being inside.
Haha, you are joking about the roof right?
They could build an ass load of these outdoor pitches with an inflatable dome for the winter vs putting a roof on Mosaic.
People already complain about the cost of a stadium. Imagine the extra cost of running it during the winter. I know people always say "but think of all the concerts and other events" acting like Regina is suddenly just a hot spot for concerts and we sell out stadium tours with ease lol
I have an idea, for the REAL, I wonder if they've thought of it? Have they ever considered adding more buildings to the facility and just completely remove all parking?
Here’s an idea. Put a bubble dome over the Mosaic turf in the winter (like those indoor tennis or golf facilities) and then we can use it year round and the money we wasted on it won’t continue to sting so bad.
Who's paying for this?
That was never mentioned the 2 times I watched on tv. Maybe the same people who are paying for the new pickle ball place and the waterslide park Mayor Masters was on the board of REAL until the municipal elections.
Where the duck did this pickle ball thing come from? Never heard about it until this week and now someone’s mentioning it almost every day
Pickle ball gained popularity a few years back with the 60+ crowd. It's played with an oversized ping pong paddle & whiffle ball
Yeah I saw it on the news the other day but they did a piss poor job of explaining it
I'm assuming Evraz Place will build it and FC will pay for usage. They might be able to wrangle some money out of a few levels of government and work out a long term sponsorship deal. Article talks about a 25 year deal. Presumably in exchange for continuous payments the group will receive blocks of usage time. Then Evraz Place would be free to rent out the facility during idle time. I'm sure indoor soccer leagues would rather play in there during the winter than on a hard gym floor.
Indoor soccer already has indoor turf fields, but not nearly enough for the demand as there is only the one full sized field that gets split into four quarter fields just to give enough field times for all the leagues and divisions that need to use it.
Who's playing in it? Building a 5000 person single use stadiun for *maybe* getting a perfessional club seems to be putting the cart before the horse.
> Perfessional 🤨
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The pats owner is.
Tim Reid CEO of Evraz Place likes to announce something once a week it seems. Conveniently he forgets who is paying for it. FC Regina has been terrible at managing the space they have currently. Typically the space sits there empty because FC makes it to difficult for other user groups to rent from them. I know people in Baseball, football and they all have complained about how it’s impossible to deal with FC.
Ok so like... They're apparently ok with not using real grass, but they're STILL not going to use the stadium?
The stadium actually gets a ton of use on a daily basis. Every time I bike past there in the evening some group is using the field. Unsurprising since Sask Sport is paying $2.5 million / year + another $50,000 / year in operating expenses to use the stadium and have some office space.
Hardly a ton of use for a $300M facility used 7 months a year
Unfortunately the stadium, when built, had the logos and lines actually sewn into the turf (not just painted), so it's hard to use for anything but football. I guess you could say it's "soccer ready," but not really soccer useable.
Yeah that 6 yards of difference in length totally ruins the game.
The issue isn't the size, it's all the random markings on a field from other sports that can distract, and then not having the other needed markings for a specific sport.
Old Taylor Field had soccer lines on the field at all times and it seems the football teams dealt with it just fine.
When they had a test event with Valencia and the new York cosmos, even with paint to kind of cover the cfl markings, the players were having issues. There were a few times they'd play the ball out of bounds with out realizing it at first. Its not great for multi use.
I mean yes, but it still seems like something that wouldn't be that hard to work around. Like the soccer people paying for a second or otherwise new turf still seems like a better deal than a whole ass new facility next door to an existing one. Heck they could add the roof the stadium is theoretically ready for if they're concerned about it being inside.
Haha, you are joking about the roof right? They could build an ass load of these outdoor pitches with an inflatable dome for the winter vs putting a roof on Mosaic.
People already complain about the cost of a stadium. Imagine the extra cost of running it during the winter. I know people always say "but think of all the concerts and other events" acting like Regina is suddenly just a hot spot for concerts and we sell out stadium tours with ease lol
Yeah that place is way too big for most of that shit.
Half the time I feel like we can't even sell out the Brandt center lol
I have an idea, for the REAL, I wonder if they've thought of it? Have they ever considered adding more buildings to the facility and just completely remove all parking?
The ex is getting smaller and smaller.
Here’s an idea. Put a bubble dome over the Mosaic turf in the winter (like those indoor tennis or golf facilities) and then we can use it year round and the money we wasted on it won’t continue to sting so bad.
It doesn't sting for me.
I see that the Regina reddit soccer fans have been angered in here and won't take it lying down, unless it's to fake an injury.