00:00 SportsFest Rick Horowitz, another 1.3 trillion dollar business of sports with your daily numbers game.
00:05 Say it ain't so. NYC, New York City FC getting a home.
00:10 Finally, 780 million dollar facility land use approval at Willits Point,
00:16 Billie Jean King Tennis Center, City Field, right there in the middle.
00:21 Important for the community to spruce that neighborhood up.
00:24 Important for soccer. Don Garber, the commissioner, says as a native New Yorker,
00:28 great to welcome soccer to our doorstep.
00:31 Maybe more importantly for someone who's been in the industry like I have,
00:34 you've got to fail and fail and fail before you succeed.
00:37 Doing anything in New York is a very hard deal.
00:40 This process started in 2011.
00:43 There have been 14 false starts by my count, maybe many more that didn't hit the drawing board.
00:49 And after all of that, we've got a process that is rocketing toward conclusion.
00:55 Good for everybody, especially right around the time of the World Cup.
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