{"id":868842,"date":"2026-08-23T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/868842\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T19:00:09","slug":"vancouver-whitecaps-bid-to-run-b-c-place-still-unresolved-remains-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/868842\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Whitecaps\u2019 bid to run B.C. Place still unresolved, remains ongoing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">Despite a report early Friday that the Whitecaps and the provincial government had a deal in place to let the club \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/08\/06\/whitecaps-schuster-talks-ongoing-sale-process-future-at-bc-place\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/08\/06\/whitecaps-schuster-talks-ongoing-sale-process-future-at-bc-place\/\">run B.C. Place<\/a> for the next five years,\u201d it has been reported that this is \u201cnot the case &#8212; at least, not yet.\u201d Following Friday\u2019s episode of the \u201cAway From The Numbers\u201d podcast, the Whitecaps released a statement that said that \u201cno \u2018new or different agreement\u2019 had been reached, but acknowledged that talks continue.\u201d The show\u2019s host Michael McColl during the episode said that he had \u201cheard from three people that a deal was done, but also said he\u2019d not been able to confirm it with the team.\u201d It was reported that there had \u201cbeen a recent lull in talks between the parties\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/theprovince.com\/sports\/soccer\/mls\/vancouver-whitecaps\/whitecaps-bc-place-deal-being-worked-on-but-nothing-signed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/theprovince.com\/sports\/soccer\/mls\/vancouver-whitecaps\/whitecaps-bc-place-deal-being-worked-on-but-nothing-signed\">Vancouver PROVINCE, 8\/21<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">After four games, the Whitecaps \u201cremain unimpressed\u201d with the artificial surface at B.C. Place that was installed following the 2026 World Cup. PavCo spokesperson Jenny McKenzie said that the surface \u201cstill needs a settling-in period.\u201d Normally there \u201cwould have been more time following installation\u201d before the Whitecaps and the CFL\u2019s B.C. Lions began playing games (<a href=\"https:\/\/theprovince.com\/sports\/soccer\/mls\/vancouver-whitecaps\/maligned-b-c-place-turf-still-settling-in-pavco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/theprovince.com\/sports\/soccer\/mls\/vancouver-whitecaps\/maligned-b-c-place-turf-still-settling-in-pavco\">Vancouver PROVINCE, 8\/21<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite a report early Friday that the Whitecaps and the provincial government had a deal in place to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,573,561,82,4935],"class_list":["post-868842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-mls","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}