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St. Louis Soccer United is proposing the development of a multi-pronged project that includes:
Major League Soccer, now at 16 teams with a 15th (Seattle) to join the league in 2009 and a 16th (Philadelphia) joining in 2010, plans to expand again to 18 teams. St. Louis heads the list of potential expansion markets, including Miami, San Diego, Montreal, Las Vegas, and Portland. In the race to expansion, St. Louis Soccer United has earned the support of key Major League Soccer figures including Dave Checketts, who is the investor-owner of the Real Salt Lake club in MLS as well as chairman of the St. Louis Blues, Scottrade Center, and Sports Capital Partners. Checketts expressed this in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “We’ve got to get a team there (St. Louis). It’s absolutely ready for it . . . there’s more passion for soccer there than any place I’ve been.”
The proposed site for the state-of-the art stadium is located 10 minutes east of downtown St. Louis in Collinsville, Ill. The site is approximately 400 acres of former agricultural ground. Located at the junction of Interstate highway 255 (north-south) and I-55/70 running east-west, the highways offer excellent access to the site from all directions as well as local access off of Horseshoe Lake Road Additionally, one of the possible alignments for future light rail expansion borders the site on the north end. This currently functions as one of the many regionally maintained bike trails crisscrossing the Metro East area. Together, these elements have the potential to provide unmatched transportation options and access for the site.
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St. Louis Soccer United (SLSU) is a professional soccer investment and development group dedicated to bringing a Major League Soccer team and state-of-the-art stadium facility to the St. Louis area.
