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July 12, 2004

Utah gets MLS team, stadium demand

Another day, another soccer team looking for public money. The latest MLS club to come seeking stadium subsidies is the Utah... well, we don't exactly know what they'll be called, except that it almost certainly won't be the Boom. With MLS set to announce this Wednesday that it's granting an expansion team to Salt Lake City, team owner (and former Utah Jazz and New York Knicks president) Dave Checketts has already been meeting with Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County officials to discuss using tax money to help build a soccer-only stadium. "They plan on putting in substantial private dollars, so it's not like they were coming to us with their hands out," city council chair Jill Remington Love told the Salt Lake Tribune. "They were exploring tools available to them to cover any gaps."

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