What a waste of tax payer money. Billionaire owners given 1 billion from an area that really can't afford it. Should have let him take them, and the Sabres, to texas.
Stupid, sad, lacking vision and a money loser. I guess that sums it up. Stadiums with retractable roofs are not new. Toronto built the Rogers Centre in 1989, with a roof that exposes 100% of the field when open. The Bills will lose 1 or 2 home games each fall when the Lake Effect snow season starts.. Attendance at Bills games has always declined with the temperature.. Bills assume incorrectly that the market will absorb the higher ticket prices needed to off-set the reduced seating capacity. The stadium will sit there empty for 6 months a year,. Rogers centre in contrast has car shows concerts and cultural events all year. Taylor Swift sold out 6 nights in cold late November. When I heard they were moving it out of town, I thought it was a missed opportunity to revitalize Buffalo. When I found out it would not have a retractable roof, I was stunned.
LA won't be proud of because the city in large part takes from its poorest areas and funnels money to the city center. Just look at Wilmington or Panorama City (not an actual city), both neighborhoods in the city of Los Angeles. Both really struggling while a $1 billion or more sit waiting in a part of the city that most of the resident will never use. Unlike most cities in LACOUNTY the taxes are not kept where they are raised and instead are used to mismanage all of LACITY's failed developments. All the time, lobbying, and money wasted when Sylmar still hasn't received it's promised fire station. But even still the city residents are too dumb to allow the city to break apart and potential flourish like many other cities in the county. Letting the neighborhoods decide their futures.
1.7 billion $ for a stadium that small that not even has a roof covering all seats, let alone the pit? Are you nuts? Does it come with solid gold seats or diamond plated toilets? The new stadium of Real Madrid cost 1.2 billion €, but that one has over 80.000 seats, a roof that can be fully closed and even a pitch that can be stored under the stadium. And it had to be built section by section in the spot of the existing, still used stadium.
Having no roof would not disqualify them from hosting a Super Bowl. Met Life Stadium in New York hosted a Super Bowl. Granted it was a rather warm February that year but the point still stands. What does disqualify them would be the amount of snow that Buffalo gets every winter.
New York State had a history of screwing taxpayers out of money throughout EXTREMELY overpriced buildings They built a stupid welcome center and cost 26$ million You can find their expense sheet online they charged $80k PER PICNIC TABLE
Angeleno here, I've been going to Anime Expo at the Convention Center since 2013 and have slowly watched the space go from parking lot to skyscraper. I didn't go to AX from 2018 to 2023. This year when I went I thought how is the eye sore still not done?! I always saw it as a bad imitation of Times Square and that luxury apartments were the wrong choice with the current state of housing in LA.
No roof, in the end, will be a "cool" feature that help brand a statement about the team and the region. NFL fans will eventually say ... "They were right after all." This video is full of unbalanced, sketchy statements.
As an upstate NY native and Bills fan, having no roof is definitely part of the culture, as odd as it may sound. Away teams coming to Highmark stadium to play in the elements has always been a factor. Bills have a quote they say “when it’s too tough for them, it’s just right for us”
Pegula looking to sell 25% of team to help finance his portion, his wife is a vegetable due to a heart attack, the stadium is in the suburbs nowhere near Buffalo proper.... fans will now have to pay psl's just to buy season tickets.... it's the worst bullshit ever ... Washington sold for over $6 bill, Denver over $4 bill, if someone wanted a team they could give Pegula $2.8 bill dbling his initial investment pay the state and county $850 mill ti get out of lease... move to San Diego where you could build a stadium host 8-9 reg season games piss playoffs 2 NCAA bowl games and the Super Bowl ... you can leave the Bills name behind and be the San Diego Toros
How absurd that Buffalo can spend this kind of money on a sport stadium rather than the infrastructure of the city and education. Our ridiculous addiction to sports is senseless… “ Bread and circus”… it’s a sign of decline.
Wow, and here I was thinking that 7-8 floor residential building with construction halted for years nearby my neighborhood of a small city of 200.000 people was a very bad thing, and yet, here we have 3 skyscrapers over 40 floors aspiring to be the Ryugyong of downtown LA... what an eyesore for those living nearby! And I know next to nothing regarding skyscraper building legislation, but I'm pretty sure someone should be responsible for finishing building what they've started!...
Why because it doesn't have a roof takes it out of the running for a Super Bowl? New York/New Jersey hosted the big game at Met Life stadium and they don't have a roof. I do agree not having a roof in Buffalo is dumb.
A lot of people who are trying to work from home don’t even need to get your ass up and go to work at this point. You’re just being lazy stop using the pandemic as an excuse.
These sky scrapers are always dick measuring contests. LA need super blocks like those in Barcelona so they can create green corridors, plant trees and cool down areas where only pedestrians can access. It’ll improve our walkability and business growth. LA’s city planners need to see what actually works in other cities. 🤦♂️
This should have been done downtown, which would have spurred new development and created thousands of local full time jobs, not part time soda jerks and peanut vendors. Hotels, retail outlets and restaurants could have flourished. Nothing will grow around the new stadium just as nothing grew around the old one
Despite some of his faults, at least Stephen Ross paid for Hard Rock Stadium’s refurbishing and the new Baptist Health Training Complex completely out of his own pocket. Took nothing from the residents of Miami Gardens!!!!
