“When I bought this team, fans and the community kept saying we needed to do better. “It’s time the world’s greatest city got the sports and entertainment park it deserves,” said New York Mets owner Steve Cohen in an announcement of the plan.
Before that it was an ash dumping ground.) So what’s on the table - Metropolitan Park, named for the full name of the Mets - certainly isn’t a surprise.īut, when combined with the proposed soccer stadium also pitched for the area, Metropolitan Park will be a transformational development of one of the most desirable open areas in all of New York City. (Interesting trivia: the site has been used as a parking lot since the 1937 World’s Fair. Upgrading the underused parking lots at Citi Field was a goal for Cohen since he bought the team. We have the long-awaited Citi Field casino plan from New York Mets owner Steve Cohen: Metropolitan Park, which includes a new gaming facility developed with Hard Rock International, a hotel, food hall and a live music venue.
By Kevin Reichard on Novemin Major-League Baseball
