If you want professional soccer to succeed I think you fill up a small venue first. There are any number of high schools with seating for a few thousand folks. Flll that consistently, then move onto bigger plans.

to suggest an arena for 20,000 that will sit unused most of the time is kind of a waste of space.

i understand soccer fans are passionate, and they voice the option that they can't grow if they are subjected to playing in non-professional venues. True, Pele would never join a team who plays their home games at Detroit Country Day, but that is the problem with professional soccer in the US...even if you built a state-of-tha-art stadium for 30,000 fans you would still be short by 70,000.

international soccer venues Rock and surge and strain with thousands and thousands of screaming and chanting and singing fanatics. Here in the US you get a couple of thousand polite folks who clap politely while sipping lattes from recyclable cups.

You will spend millions and millions on the fanciest place imagined and still suck as much as playing at a high school field. Maybe more because your absolute best effort was so lacking.