'We’ve put so much effort into this to bring it in,” said Ersal Ozdemir.
this week to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Development Commission to attract a Major League Soccer franchise to Indianapolis.
Ersal Ozdemir owns Keystone Group, one of the biggest real estate developers in Indiana. He also owns the Indy Eleven and brought the pro soccer team to the city about a dozen years ago. Ozdemir's dream has always been to bring a Major League Soccer Team to Indianapolis. He says the best and quickest way to do that is to move forward with a soccer stadium at Eleven Park.
The more than $1 billion mixed use development with retail and living space in towers is anchored by a 20,000-seat soccer stadium on the southwest corner of downtown, on Kentucky Avenue just south of Victory Field and just west of Lucas Oil Stadium. "We’ve put so much effort into this to bring it in,” said Ozdemir. “We've done everything that you're supposed to follow to do it right to get the team, invest in it privately, get legislation passed, buy land, get it designed, and obviously last minute when something like that happens, you can imagine we were surprised and disappointed."
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