The New York Islanders are coming home. According to Jim Baumbach, the Islanders have won the bid for Belmont Park. The story broke just after noon today.
As we wrote earlier on the website an official announcement was supposed to be released tomorrow. Sources close to the situation told Newsday that the Islanders had the winning bid over NYCFC.
The Islanders’ bid includes an 18,000-seat, year-round arena that would host 150 events annually as well as 435,000-square feet of space for retail, a hotel with 200 to 250 rooms and a 10,000-square foot “innovation center” that would be developed with resident input.