What Toronto Learned about MLS that Portland Hasn't?

Adams
tear down Memorial Coliseum
new Major League Soccer team
WW
the planning process was moving too quickly.
the first non-U.S. team
"Promoters of professional soccer have gone from merely holding out their hands to putting a gun in them,"
Toronto Star
"Imagine this: Toronto taxpayers are being blackmailed in a pro soccer shakedown. We're getting a deadline to provide a brand new stadium for a business that has gone broke in this town in its many previous attempts. This is insane."
here.
the $88.8 million deal
"Imagine, further, the nerve of these people, starting with one Don Garber, commissioner of something called Major League Soccer, who issued an or-else deadline this week.
The next deadline in Portland is April 22, when City Council is expected to consider a "pre-development agreement" with Paulson,

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