{"id":229,"date":"2014-06-11T20:01:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T20:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2014-06-11T20:01:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T20:01:06","slug":"orlandos-new-mls-soccer-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2014\/06\/11\/orlandos-new-mls-soccer-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando&#8217;s new MLS soccer stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/os-mls-soccer-stadium-rendering-20140610-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-230 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/os-mls-soccer-stadium-rendering-20140610-001-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"os-mls-soccer-stadium-rendering-20140610-001\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Orlando&#8217;s new Major League Soccer stadium will have a sunken field; more than three dozen luxury suites; roofed seating bowls; and plenty of places to drink and carouse. After more than a year of speculation, Orlando City Soccer Club on Tuesday released details and renderings of the $110 million stadium featuring an open plaza where passers-by can look down on a field sunken 10 to 12 feet below street level.<!--more--> The stadium, scheduled to open before the MLS expansion franchise&#8217;s 2016 season, would include:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #292727;\">\u2022A seating capacity of 19,500, with the structural ability to expand to 25,000 in the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #292727;\">\u2022A grass field open to the sky, and seating sections on three sides that are covered by overhanging roofs. They&#8217;re designed to protect fans from the elements and reflect raucous crowd noise back into the stadium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #292727;\">More information:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #292727;\">http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/breakingnews\/os-mls-soccer-stadium-rendering-20140610,0,961170.story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando&#8217;s new Major League Soccer stadium will have a sunken field; more than three dozen luxury suites; roofed seating bowls; and plenty of places to drink and carouse. After more than a year of speculation, Orlando City Soccer Club on Tuesday released details and renderings of the $110 million stadium featuring an open plaza where &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2014\/06\/11\/orlandos-new-mls-soccer-stadium\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orlando&#8217;s new MLS soccer stadium&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[49,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}