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Franchises To Buy In 2017
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These franchises represent 11.4% of all businesses in the industries published and covered by the report. These franchise establishments employed 9.6 million of the 63.3 million workers in these industries.
The 9,757 franchise businesses in the Fitness and Recreational Sports Center industry reported sales of nearly $5.0 billion in 2017, up 171% from $1.8 billion in 2007. It also showed that franchises in this industry employed 102,605 workers in 2017, up 62% from 63,455 in 2007.
This industry experienced the greatest increase in franchise establishments from 2007 to 2017, adding a net 20,042 Limited-Service Restaurants during the decade. It also had the greatest increase in franchise employment during the same period (up 609,508), employing 3,214,717 people in 2017.
Though Limited-Service Restaurant franchises had the largest number of franchise establishments and franchise employment, they were not alone in making up a high share of all businesses in a given industry, including Private Mail Centers and the high share that these franchise businesses make of all businesses in the industry.
Major League Soccer was established in 1993, as part of an agreement with FIFA that the United States set up a professional first division to gain the right to host the 1994 FIFA World Cup.[14] No successful professional outdoor soccer league existed since the North American Soccer League folded in 1985. Due to rapid over-expansion and poor franchise placement, the NASL collapse led future MLS leaders to be extremely cautious of establishing new franchises.
Major League Soccer reportedly lost an estimated $250 million during its first five years.[19][20] During the winter break between the 2000 and 2001 seasons, reports began circulating that MLS was considering trimming the league from 12 teams back to 10 teams.[21]MLS announced in January 2002 that it had decided to contract the two Florida franchises, the Tampa Bay Mutiny and Miami Fusion.[22] Both teams folded. The league chose to fold Miami, in part because their ownership reportedly lacked financial resources, had been trying to run the Fusion on a bare-minimum budget, and had asked the league to pay some of the club's expenses.[21] Miami ownership had reportedly experienced $15 million in operating losses since Miami joined the league.[17] The league folded the Tampa Bay Mutiny in part because the team was operated by the League instead of by an individual owner, meaning that the League had to absorb 100% of the team's operating losses.[17]This contraction left the league with 10 teams, the same number as when MLS began.[23]
The league announced it was awarding an expansion franchise in Atlanta to Atlanta Falcons owner and Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank on April 16, 2014, with plans to begin play in 2017. The expansion fee was $70 million for the Atlanta team.[65] The team shares the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which was completed in 2017, with the Falcons.[66] Discussions between Blank and MLS had \"accelerated\" following approval of the stadium plans in late 2013.[62]
The team had been expected to begin play in MLS in 2018, though the timing of their start date was described as \"fluid.\"[73] The ownership group did not meet its July 1, 2015, deadline to present stadium plans to MLS after the Minnesota state legislature failed to take up the club's proposal by the end of its session in May 2015.[74] In October 2015, the team announced it had selected a stadium site in St. Paul.[75] The expansion fee was $100 million for the team in Minnesota[76] The league later announced that Minnesota United would join MLS in 2017, and would play in Minneapolis at the University of Minnesota's football home of TCF Bank Stadium[77] until its new stadium was ready.
On October 30, 2014, MLS Commissioner Don Garber announced that a new team was awarded to Los Angeles and its ownership group led by Henry Nguyen for the expansion fee of $110 million.[78] Other notable members of the ownership group included Peter Guber, Magic Johnson, Mia and Nomar Garciaparra, Tom Penn, among others. The new team was announced with the working name, \"Los Angeles Football Club\", which later became its official name in September 2015. Originally set to begin play in 2017, the team did not begin until 2018 when construction of their new soccer-specific stadium, Banc of California Stadium was completed.[79][80]
On November 29, 2016, Don Garber visited with Cincinnati's mayor John Cranley, officials from FC Cincinnati of the USL, and civic and business leaders of the city to talk about a possible expansion. FC Cincinnati, in its first season in the USL in 2016, broke the USL's single-season attendance record, averaging 17,296 fans per game at Nippert Stadium. They also set the league's single-game playoff record for attendance with 30,187 spectators on October 2. On the heels of those attendance numbers, Cincinnati entered the expansion conversation.[81] On June 12, 2017, FC Cincinnati revealed designs for a soccer-specific stadium to be built in conjunction with an MLS bid.[82] FC Cincinnati was awarded an expansion on May 29, 2018, to start play in MLS in 2019 for the expansion fee of $150 million.[83][84]
In August 2016, a group of Nashville business leaders from several of the city's largest corporations formed the Nashville MLS Organizing Committee and began efforts to secure funding for an MLS stadium.[97] The group, led by Bill Hagerty, pursued an MLS team immediately rather than work up the soccer pyramid. The group fully supports the recently awarded USL expansion team, Nashville SC, which began play in 2018. Both groups support each other in their common vision to grow the sport in Tennessee.[98] In October 2017, the group unveiled their plans for $275 million stadium and redevelopment project,[99][100] which was approved by the city in November.[101] Nashville was granted a team for the expansion fee of $150 million on December 20, 2017, with the team was expected begin to play in 2020 season.[84][102]
In 2017, Speedway Motorsports CEO Marcus Smith led an effort for MLS expansion to Charlotte that initially included a 20,000 to 30,000-seat stadium.[107] In October 2017, however, the Charlotte city council confirmed that they would be unable to come up with the financing needed for the MLS deadline for expansion proposals, at which point the bid was effectively dead.[108]
On January 12, 2016, The NFL's Rams relocated to Los Angeles from St. Louis and the Rams relocation initially accelerated the talks of an MLS expansion team.[115]On January 27, 2016, St. Louis lawmaker, Keith English proposed a bill that would put a tax of not more than one-tenth of one percent on the ballot in St. Louis and St. Louis County, it also calls for the RSA to oversee the soccer stadium.[citation needed] The proposed tax would only go into effect if MLS awards a team to St. Louis by December 20, 2020. On February 17, 2016, the MLS2STL group was formed to bring an MLS team to the St. Louis area.[116]In early 2017, a funding plan for a soccer-specific stadium adjacent to Union Station in downtown St. Louis was approved by the city's Board of Aldermen, before it was brought to a public vote on April 4, 2017, but the public vote failed.[117][118]
On December 17, 2014, the Las Vegas City Council approved public funding of $56.5 million for the proposed soccer stadium in Symphony Park, contingent on MLS granting an expansion franchise to Las Vegas.[132] Garber notified Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman on February 12, 2015, that MLS no longer considered Las Vegas as an expansion market until after 2018.[133] The potential for a Las Vegas team was revived in January 2017 by the city council approaching a sports investment bank but an official bid was not reported by MLS.[134]
In 2017, Phoenix entered the race for an expansion team.[139] The bid for expansion is led by the ownership group of Phoenix Rising FC of the United Soccer League including former Chelsea and Phoenix Rising FC player Didier Drogba.[134] That year, Phoenix Rising signed an agreement with Goldman Sachs to help the funding of a new 20,000 person stadium on land purchased from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community if selected.[140] After Bally Sports Arizona agreed to air most Rising matches in March 2022, Phoenix was reported to have been drawn closer to becoming an MLS franchise.[141]
Commissioner Garber mentioned San Diego as an expansion candidate in February 2014,[142] and again in April 2016.[143] The ownership group includes MLB San Diego Padres owner Peter Seidler.[144] An MLS team in San Diego would be located close to two MLS teams in Los Angeles, as well as the Liga MX side Xolos of Tijuana.[145]The NFL's Chargers 2017 relocation to Los Angeles has accelerated the chances for an MLS expansion team in San Diego.[146][147][148]
On February 20, 2017, a new plan for the Mission Valley site of the facility then known as Qualcomm Stadium was unveiled by a La Jolla investment group that was trying to lure a Major League Soccer team to San Diego.[149]The former LA Galaxy striker Landon Donovan joined the San Diego ownership group on March 3, 2017.[150] Donovan's group missed its attempt to bring an MLS team after losing the ballot measure to San Diego State University's new football stadium project in November 2018.[151] By May 2022, MLS was interested in San Diego again as other groups began to pursue the city's franchise.[152]
On October 16, 2017, Columbus Crew owner Anthony Precourt announced his intentions of moving his club to Austin in 2019 if a new stadium in downtown Columbus is not built. As downtown Austin is approximately 75 miles (120 km) north of downtown San Antonio, the proposed relocation would be in direct conflict with expansion efforts in San Antonio.[173] However, Jimmy Haslam, owner of the NFL's Cleveland Browns, and Pete Edwards, Jr. acquired the Crew in order to keep the club in Columbus and Precourt was granted rights to an expansion franchise in Austin.[174] 59ce067264
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