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The Dynamo moved to Houston from San Jose for the 2006 season precisely because of the Earthquakes' failure to build a new stadium, immediately winning back-to-back MLS championships and establishing themselves as a solid and successful, if unstarry, franchise under the shrewd management of the Scotland-born Dominic Kinnear.
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I don't know if it's going to turn around overnight but there'll be a slow healthy growth there." It gives people the confidence to go in there and build housing and make an effort with businesses. "I've seen reports it'll generate a thousand jobs. "I think the Dynamo stadium's going to help revitalise the area," said Glenn Davis, a local broadcaster. The Dynamo become a stronger franchise, the league gets a powerful emblem of its journey towards the core of America's sporting landscape and the East End gains a catalyst to accelerate its move from down-and-out to up-and-coming. The stadium boasts a triple play: social, financial, symbolic. One day it could be as shabby-chic as Montrose, Houston's hippest neighborhood. Investment, and a light-rail line, are coming. Here, in the blocks that surround the Dynamo, downtown wealth and gloss ebbs into the low-rise, low-rent East End district, a jumble of warehouses, vacant lots, new apartment buildings and the odd restaurant and bar. Amble from Minute Maid Park or Toyota Center under the Eastex Freeway - yes, some Houstonians do walk - turn round and the skyline does a passable impression of Manhattan, while the nearby George R Brown Convention Center does a dubious impersonation of the Pompidou Center. The Dynamo's home, a $95 million project with a 22,000 capacity, will be the third-largest soccer-specific venue and the most central.īBVA Compass Stadium is only half-a-mile from the middle of downtown in the US's fourth-largest city. In excess of $1.7 billion has been spent on these arenas, mostly through public-private funding partnerships. When Montreal Impact moves into its renovated Saputo Stadium this summer, fifteen of MLS' nineteen teams will be playing in stadiums built or renovated for soccer since 1999, when the curtain came up on Columbus Crew Stadium. Construction is more vital than celebrity to Major League Soccer's growth and a reminder comes on Saturday afternoon as Houston Dynamo hosts DC United in the league's newest mansion. B eckham has been good, but let us give credit to bricks.