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Stan Kroenke: Colorado Rapids
built 157 days ago
Kroenke bought the Rapids from the AEG tycoon, Phil Anschutz, in 2003, and promised to develop a dedicated soccer-specific-stadium (SSS), a pledge now brought to fruition. From the start of the MLS 2007 season in April, the Rapids will play at Dick's Sporting Goods Park (DSGP) in the Denver suburb of Commerce City. Since 2002 they have been playing home games at the Denver Broncos' Invesco Field home. DSGP cost $138m to build in a venture funded 50-50 by Kroenke and the city. The stadium will seat 18,500 people initially but the site covers 360 acres and includes 24 pitches, primarily for youth football. The plan is to attract up to 500,000 children to use the facility annually.
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Saying Stan Kroenke is elusive to the press is like saying Patrick Roy played a decent goalie. Kroenke descends into town like a whisper and vanishes like an apparition. It is a testament to Kroenke’s reclusiveness to say that Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen — not exactly a guy you see frequently standing in the self-checkout line at King Soopers — is a relative spotlight vamp compared with the boss of the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche.
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Stan is 59 and tall and slim and he's very focused on what he is doing. He is a detail man but ... a big-picture guy. He got heavily involved with the architect when building the Rapids soccer stadium. He has four ranches in Wyoming, Montana and Canada, where he hunts and fishes with friends and business buddies. But he is very normal and sent both his kids to state schools.His son is an now an analyst with Lehman Brothers in New York.
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Kroenke is a real estate developer who owns the NBA's Denver Nuggets, the NHL's Colorado Avalanche and the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. He ... is a co-owner of the NFL's St. Louis Rams.
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Kroenke is involved in just about every sport that exists. He's co-owner of the NFL's St. Louis Rams and full owner of the NBA's Denver Nuggets and the NHL's Colorado Avalanche, which is considered one of the best teams in the league.
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[W]hile business-as-usual transpires locally, there's a delicious drama going on in E. Stanley Kroenke's expanding sports empire far away from LoDo. It swirls around a shadowy Russian billionaire, an estranged former board member of a beloved British football team and the Colorado sports maven himself.
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