Lets also understand that Portland's Stadium was the old Baseball stadium that has been there for 30+ years. This is the stadiums most famous moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkV6h3b7DH8
If we were to rate stadiums right now in the MLS, Real Salt Lakes would be a top 5 location.
San Jose's new stadium is at the Airport
New England is in a really bad place.
Kansas Cities; although KC people like it, that thing is out 30 minutes from Downtown by a Racetrack.
Chicago's is at the Fairgrounds way out from the city
Colorado's ... bahahahaha might be in one of the worst spots.
FC Dallas; In a city that's about like Lehi or Layton and why out from Dallas
LA Galaxy; really that is not in a great location and I would take Sandy over Carson City, plus no LA traffic.
I'll leave the 3 Canadian teams out of this, although neither of them are in ideal situations.
Red Bulls; some reason people say this is in a bad location, but I just think no one likes New Jersey
Philly; The view is amazing but the area around it has still not reached it's potential
Atlanta's is really not ideal, even if it's in a new stadium but the owner gets to save money.
New York FC; that's going to get old real quick.
Of all of these Orlando is going to build in a location that is great, just hope the stadium is great as well.
Houston's perfect
And the Crews new owners love their stadium so much that they want to move out of it.
DC United has a new stadium set up however, that deal is still too fragile to say it's a done deal.
Maybe if you go to De Loy and tell him he sucks at development and the stadium is a perfect example he might get mad and do something about. Or just tell him his penis is small and he might develop something just for that too.
Plus the land around the stadium is quite uneven. It would take a lot of gradient work to get a large development going around it. The Canal also complicates things.
So chin up, I too wish Rio Tinto was in Salt Lake, but that ship is gone.