Austin FC, expected to be the 27th Major League Soccer franchise, took one step closer to that Tuesday afternoon by revealing a Jan. 15 event that will bring together MLS commissioner Don Garber, Austin FC Chairman and CEO Anthony Precourt and Austin Mayor Steve Adler. The gathering is being billed as a “legendary announcement” — […]
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Andy Loughnane has been named Austin FC’s president, the organization announced Thursday. Loughnane, 44, was most recently president of business operations for Columbus Crew SC. “Austin FC will be the 27th team to enter Major League Soccer, and will begin play in 2021,” Loughnane, who officially started on New Year’s Day, said during an interview Thursday, confirming what […]
The city of Austin, Texas, took a step forward Wednesday toward landing a Major League Soccer team. The city and Precourt Sports Ventures — whose CEO, Anthony Precourt, is the investor-operator of the Columbus Crew — finalized an agreement to build a soccer stadium on city-owned land. Spencer Cronk, the city manager, signed a lease […]
AUSTIN, Texas — Columbus Crew owner Anthony Precourt got a major boost to his effort to move the Major League Soccer club to Texas when the Austin City Council voted Wednesday to move ahead with a plan for a new, privately funded stadium on city land. Precourt has been courting Austin for a potential move […]
After a series of twists and turns in a now 10-month-old Columbus Crew relocation saga, the Austin City Council is expected to vote Wednesday on a proposal that would give Crew investor-operators Precourt Sports Ventures a pathway to move to Austin for the 2019 MLS season. The vote, as reported by ProSoccerUSA last Thursday, would […]
[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”231″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_imagebrowser” ajax_pagination=”0″ template=”default” ngg_triggers_display=”never” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] Precourt Sports Ventures (PSV) released a 189-page stadium proposal ahead of two June Austin City Council meetings that could determine whether or not Columbus Crew SC moves to the Lone Star State in 2019. The proposal to build on a site called McKalla Place […]
[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”231″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_imagebrowser” ajax_pagination=”0″ template=”default” ngg_triggers_display=”never” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] Weeks ago, Austin City Council passed a resolution commissioning a study on whether or not McKalla Place, which is described as “24 acres of underutilized land in fast growing North Austin,” has the ability to be the location of a Major League Soccer stadium. […]
[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”231″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_imagebrowser” ajax_pagination=”0″ template=”default” ngg_triggers_display=”never” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] Precourt Sports Ventures has released renderings for a stadium at the city-owned McKalla Place site in north Austin, Texas. The renderings revealed Thursday come a day before Austin city staff is expected to release its report on the nearly 25-acre location. Austin City Council […]
The Austin City Council early Friday took the next step in helping Precourt Sports Ventures zero in on a soccer stadium site in Austin, unanimously passing a resolution instructing the city manager to complete a community engagement process and detailed site analysis of by June 1. The 24-acre, city-owned site in north Austin was identified […]
Precourt Sports Ventures, which owns Crew SC, continued to build its case Tuesday for studying a site in Austin, Texas, for a Major League Soccer stadium, releasing a four-page “Commitment to the Community” letter detailing the benefits of an MLS team. The letter, addressed to Austin city council members and Mayor Steve Adler, comes days […]