Andre Swanston, a multimillionaire tech entrepreneur who attended the University of Connecticut and now lives in Ridgefield, is pursuing expansion teams in both Major League Soccer and the National Women’s Soccer League, to play in a new stadium in Bridgeport. The project would also include housing, restaurants and a hotel adjacent to the stadium, Swanston told CT Insider in an exclusive interview. Swanston said his effort will be “overwhelming majority privately funded” but that he will likely seek some amount of public financing as well. The total cost of the project, including expansion fees and construction costs, will exceed $1 billion, he said. The proposed new stadium in Bridgeport would be built on a property along the Pequonnock River currently home to the Shoreline Star Greyhound Park, which has been vacant since 2021.
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