by Paul Kennedy @pkedit, Mar 30, 2017

The San Diego group seeking to build a stadium for a proposed MLS expansion team has gathered more than 100,000 signatures in just two weeks for its petition get the city's council to either approve the project or submit it to voters.





The group needs 71,646 signatures verified by the Registrar of Voters by June for the “SoccerCity” proposal that calls for the construction of a $200 million soccer stadium as part of a $1 billion redevelopment at the site of Qualcomm Stadium in Mission Valley.



FS Investors wants to buy the land at fair-market value (determined by a third-party) and hopes to convince San Diego State to use the stadium for its football team. The key is bypassing a November 2018 public vote on the stadium project by getting approval of the city council.



“We are crushing it,” FS Investors spokesperson Nick Stone said on 1090-AM radio. “I sat with a signature gatherer for an hour and a half, answering questions … And he said to me at the end of it: ‘This is the easiest signature-gathering job I’ve ever had.’"