Here Come the Super-Stadiums

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New Meadowlands Stadium (Naming Rights TBD)

East Rutherford, N.J.

New York Jets/New York Giants, NFL
Cost: $1.3 billion
Capacity: 82,500
Opens: 2010
Luxury suites/other amenities: 200 luxury suites; 9,200 club seats; four 40-foot-by-130-foot video scoreboards

Plan for a Manhattan-based Jets stadium fell through, compelling the team to seek a joint venture with the Giants that will keep the stadium-sharing partnership alive in New Jersey. The new stadium's signature will be a 400-feet-by-40-feet high rectangular wall featuring murals of players to fans outside the stadium.



Yankee Stadium

Bronx, N.Y.

New York Yankees, MLB
Cost: $1.3 billion
Capacity: 51,800
Opens: 2009
Luxury suites/other amenities: 67 total suites. Most expensive Legends Suite is $2,500 a game per person and must be purchased in three- to 10-year packages; other suites cost $650,000 to $800,000 a year.

Design will be true to original Yankee Stadium built in 1923. The team swears up and down the high prices for primo suites will subsidize Joe Fan sitting upstairs, where 24,000 seats will be under $45.



Dallas Cowboys New Stadium (Naming Rights TBD)

Arlington, Texas

Dallas Cowboys, NFL
Cost: $1 billion
Capacity: 80,000
Opens: 2009
Luxury suites/other amenities: 200 suites; 1,500 club seats; eight video boards; 286 concessionaires

Club seat customers will see the players walk right past on their way to the field. Regular tickets will go for as much as $340, while seat license prices range from $16,000 to $50,000.


Lucas Stadium

Indianapolis, Ind.

Indianapolis Colts, NFL
Cost: $625 million
Capacity: 63,000
Opens: 2008
Luxury suites/other amenities: 140 to 150 suites; three scoreboards each 97-foot-by-53-foot, among the league's largest.

Indianapolis hopes the new digs will help it draw the 2012 Super Bowl. A brick and glass facade on outside helps it blend in--no futuristic look here.



Citi Field

Flushing, N.Y.

New York Mets, MLB
Cost: $600 million
Capacity: 45,000
Opens: 2009
Luxury suites/other amenities: 58 luxury boxes; 7,800 club seats

The Mets get $20 million annually for 20 years from Citigroup. The exterior and rotunda will resemble Ebbets Field, where the team's National League forbearers, the Brooklyn Dodgers, played from 1913 to 1957.

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Landsdowne Road Stadium

Dublin, Ireland

Irish National Soccer Team
Cost: 365 million euros ($576 million)
Opens: 2009
Capacity: 50,000
Luxury suites/amenities: 110 luxury suites; 10,000 premium club seats

The posh new digs will host Irish national soccer team, plus rugby. Fine dining and lounge bars included.



Beijing National Stadium

Beijing, China

Cost: $500 million
Capacity: 91,000 (approximately 80,000 post-Olympics)
Opens: April 2008

Ground was broken in 2003 for the state-of-the-art venue to be used as the central arena for the 2008 Summer Olympics. The stadium will host track and field events, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies. Following the games, expect Beijing to have an expensive white elephant on its hands.



Pittsburgh Hockey Arena (Naming Rights TBA)

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Pittsburgh Penguins, NHL
Cost: $300 million
Capacity: 18,500
Opens: 2010

A franchise that once teetered on bankruptcy and came close to moving to Kansas City, the Penguins are now safe in Pittsburgh for the next 30 years.



Red Bulls Park

Harrison, N.J.

New York Red Bulls (MLS)
Cost: $140 million
Capacity: 25,189
Opens: 2009
Luxury suites/ amenities: 30 luxury suites; 1,116 premium seats and three stadium clubs.

The new soccer-only stadium will bring fans closer to the action by featuring a 360-degree wraparound message board and two retail shops.



Salt Lake City Soccer Stadium (Naming Rights TBA)

Sandy, Utah

Real Salt Lake City (MLS)
Cost: $110 million
Capacity: 20,000

The team will move from the 45,000-seat University of Utah football stadium, hoping the intimate atmosphere will spur more interest.



Olympique Lyonnais

Lyon, France

Professional soccer
Cost: 240 million euros ($379 million)
Opens: 2010
Capacity: 60,000
Luxury suites/amenities: 130 luxury suites; 5,000 premium club seats

The stadium features a "green" design with solar power and reusable water. It will host soccer, rugby and concerts.


Sources:

http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ys-forbesstadiums040208&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

http://www.forbes.com/2008/03/31/sports-stadiums-yankees-biz-sports_cx_tvr_0331stadiums_slide_2.html?partner=yahoosports

[Archive]

damn.

[ron22891]

props

[kevinplayer]

nice but expensive as hell

[VAHustler]

I bet it will be some shitty looking houses not too far away around those stadiums still. Except for Sandy Utah I don't think much exist out there.lol

[greasybugsy]

The Salt Lake & Irish stadium are my 2 faves out of the 2nd part of the post...

[ATLien2g2]

$1 billion for stadiums, damn somebody getting ripped off.

[.JESUS.]

heres some pictures of the new Nationals Stadium.

[.JESUS.]

Forget the bum economy. Hungering for the kind of revenue needed to field top teams, a wave of stadium construction is sweeping through sports. But not just any stadiums. Super-stadiums.

The formula: Build new facilities with fewer seats and more luxury boxes, charge higher prices, earn more revenue, hire better players and reap more wins. Then turn around and raise ticket prices. It’s a sports business model that originated in America and is now spreading across the globe. “It’s become a game of one-upsmanship,” says Chris Lee, senior principal at HOK Sport, which designed several new European stadiums. “Teams are finding it’s a circle you have to be a part of.”

charge higher prices..