Photo: A concert at Dick’s | Story by Noelle Phillips, Sean Keeler, The Denver Post | When Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, the $71 million home of the Rapids, opened in 2007, there were high hopes in Commerce City that it would become a destination for more people than just soccer fans.
They’re still waiting.
And wondering.
“I’m not an anti-KSE guy,” offered Dave Wegner, president of the Centennial 38 supporters club for the Major League Soccer franchise that calls Commerce City home. “I think they do wonderful things. It’s that they run their sports business like a business. And other (owners) run their sports business like a sports business.”
The Rapids are owned by Kroenke Sports & Entertainment — billionaire Stan Kroenke’s global company that also owns the Los Angeles Rams, London’s Arsenal soccer club, and the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche and Colorado Mammoth. KSE signed a 25-year lease with Commerce City for $1 per year in exchange for financing, building and managing the stadium and soccer fields around it.
There were plans for housing, shops, restaurants and bars, and office space. But Victory Crossing, the proposed 600,000-square-foot development around the stadium, has never crossed over from mock-ups to reality.
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Photo: Concert at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park
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