The Sacramento Republic FC sound like they're very serious about getting a downtown soccer stadium built - no, not the temporary stadium being built at Cal Expo, but a larger, professional soccer stadium built right in down town. The club president, Warren Smith, talks about it in the team podcast:
http://www.spreaker.com/user/towerbr...ected=true#_=_
He says they've identified several locations downtown, I assume they may be similar to possible locations for the arena. But he also says something like the railyards and West Sac being the "easy" thing to do (i.e., building over empty land), and that they really want to do things "right" - which I assume can only mean other locations even closer to the core of the city? Along with the other development that seems to be perking up in the grid, this is just another piece of news. It sounds like they are really serious about it and expanding into MLS, and they know the only way to do that is if they have a downtown stadium.
Any thoughts or ideas on where they would be looking? I imagine a soccer stadium would need to take up at least the space the arena will be taking up.