"Our facility will finally give the Red Bulls a place we cancall home," says the organization's managing director, Marc deGrandpre. "We're committed to seeing this team and this sport besuccessful in the tri-state area, and this facility is a huge pieceof that puzzle."

As reported by GlobeSt.com, formal plans were unveiled in August,and getting planning board approval took less than three months.Those plans call for a 50,000-sf office building that will housethe sporting and business sides of the team, including multiplelocker rooms, a players' lounge, weight room and trainer'sroom.

Also part of the plan are a separate one-story, 3,700-sf fieldhouse, and six soccer fields, five of them outdoor fields and oneof them indoor, covered by a tension fabric frame structure. Theorganization plans to preserve approximately 19 acres of the siteon Melanie Lane as open space, with much of that currently acreagefalling into the wetlands category.