CHARLESTON, S.C. – As he shadowed the Charleston Battery last season while working toward a deal that would eventually see him lead the club’s new ownership group, Rob Salvatore saw an organization that had tremendous history and potential, but needed a reset in the way its operations were structured.

“I saw a team that was being kept alive, but didn’t necessarily have any vision, strategy, or structure to it,” Salvatore told The USL Show recently. “It had in a way fallen out of relevance in the city, so what we tried to do was get a strategy set and get people focused in areas where we thought it played to their strengths.”

That’s not only meant the arrival of some new faces to the organization this offseason and the reassignment of others, but also Salvatore getting intensely involved on a day-to-day basis as the Battery prepare to start a new era at Patriots Point this spring.

And, with the club’s home debut at its new venue a little over a month away, that’s meant spending plenty of time ensuring that everything will be ready when the Battery welcome fans to their clash with the Philadelphia Union II on March 28.

“I really like what we have planned,” said Salvatore. “They’re starting to move earth around, and a lot more is going to get done in the next couple of weeks. There’s been a lot of planning and preparation that’s been going on, and now stuff is really going to start to happen in earnest, and people will see that. We’ll be releasing some renderings and plans to show everybody what’s going on – I’m really excited about it.”