Development of stadiums in English football Reading in the top flight (although promotion was not achieved until 2006), so the decision to build a new stadium was made. In 2008 Rotherham United expressed dissatisfaction with their Millmoor home and began to look into the construction of a new stadium in the town. At the start of the 2008–09 season Rotherham United temporarily moved to the Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield due to ownership disputes over Millmoor. The Football League told the club that they must return to Rotherham by 2012 which they have done. The club moved to the 12,000-capacity New York Stadium, which opened in
Don Valley Parkway on public lands as much as possible, thus minimizing the expropriation of private property. Greenbelt land has been used for right-of-way in preference to acreage which can be commercially developed." The route required the expropriation of less than 25 properties. The first planned route of the parkway was to follow the lower Don Valley before turning north and continuing along the Don Mills Road right-of-way north to the Toronto Bypass (today's Highway 401). Edward P. Taylor, developer of the Don Mills subdivision, situated at Don Mills Road and Lawrence Avenue, protested the plan heavily and the path was rerouted along