{"id":1766,"date":"2006-11-13T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T16:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/shea_and_the_citi.html"},"modified":"2006-11-13T08:45:09","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T16:45:09","slug":"shea_and_the_ci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/shea_and_the_ci.html","title":{"rendered":"Shea And The Citi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who was William A. Shea anyway?* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/11112006\/news\/regionalnews\/mets_bank_on_citi_regionalnews_hasani_gittens.htm\">Now it doesn&#8217;t matter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Citigroup Inc. will put its name on the Mets&#8217; new stadium in a deal reportedly worth $20 million a year, sources close to the negotiations said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CitiField&#8221; &#8212; as the new ballpark will be called &#8212; is scheduled to be ready by the 2009 season and will be located right next to the old Shea in Flushing.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets plan a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday and sources told Bloomberg News they will officially reveal the new name then.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg News reported that Citigroup &#8212; the nation&#8217;s biggest bank &#8212; may be paying as much as $20 million a year for the honor of gracing the 2006 National League Eastern Division champs&#8217; new stomping grounds.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The stadium&#8217;s new name was first reported on the Internet blog hotfoot.metsblog.com, where a reader wrote that his father was working on the new ballpark and noticed a sign at the construction site that read, &#8220;CitiField: Coming in 2009.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*It&#8217;s never too late <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Shea\">to learn<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who was William A. Shea anyway?* Now it doesn&#8217;t matter: Citigroup Inc. will put its name on the Mets&#8217; new stadium in a deal reportedly worth $20 million a year, sources close to the negotiations said yesterday. &#8220;CitiField&#8221; &#8212; as the new ballpark will be called &#8212; is scheduled to be ready by the 2009 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,54,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-project_mersh","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}