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Guess I'll have to make it to Yankee Stadium within the next 4 years...

 

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2085240

 

NEW YORK -- The New York Yankees will announce detailed plans Wednesday for a new $800 million ballpark, which would be built adjacent to the current Yankee Stadium and could be ready by the 2009 season.

 

The team has spent years planning the new stadium, which will have a capacity of at least 50,800 -- approximately 6,000 seats fewer than the current ballpark -- but could be expanded to about 54,000. It would be constructed in Macombs Dam Park, to the north of the current stadium, and financed by the team.

 

Yankee Stadium, which opened in 1923, is the third-oldest park in use in the major leagues, younger only than Boston's Fenway Park (1912) and Chicago's Wrigley Field (1914). Yankee Stadium was renovated extensively in 1974-75, but the team has long desired a modern ballpark with more luxury suites and wider concourses.

 

The stadium plan calls for the new ballpark to resemble the original Yankee Stadium in many of its details, and the dimensions of the playing field would be identical to the current ballpark. It would have 50 to 60 suites, up from 18 in the current stadium.

 

Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, New York Gov. George Pataki and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg planned to attend the news conference, spokesman Howard Rubenstein said. The Yankees hope to start construction in 2006 and move into the new ballpark in 2009, a timetable that would be ambitious given the delays that frequently occur in construction in New York.

 

Approval of the state Legislature and the City Council is necessary. The state would contribute about $70 million to increase parking from 7,000 spaces to 11,000, and the city would replace the lost parkland as part of the deal. A new commuter train station and expanded ferry terminal is also part of the plan.

 

Just last weekend, the city and the Mets announced plans for a new $600 million ballpark next to Shea Stadium. That facility would be used for the 2012 Olympics the International Olympic Committee votes July 6 to award the event to New York.

 

That plan was drawn up after last week's collapse of the proposal to build a retractable-roof stadium in Manhattan for the NFL's Jets and the Olympics.

 

The Yankees and New York City's government agreed several weeks ago to a memorandum of understanding for the new Bronx ballpark. The team will pay for the stadium on its own, and the cost of paying off the bonds used to raise the money will be deducted from the Yankees' locally-generated revenue. That will lower the Yankees' revenue sharing payments to the commissioner's office.

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QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Jun 14, 2005 -> 09:16 PM)
The house that juice built?

The House that the Boss built.

 

Incidently...the stadium should be about the same size as Yankee stadium, but with about 6000 less seats.

 

What will make up the revenue from those lost seats?

 

I'm sure you guessed it; luxury boxes.

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QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jun 15, 2005 -> 05:31 PM)
The House that the Boss built.

 

Incidently...the stadium should be about the same size as Yankee stadium, but with about 6000 less seats.

 

What will make up the revenue from those lost seats?

 

I'm sure you guessed it; luxury boxes.

Well, Billy Crystal has to have a place to sit. Right?

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QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Jun 15, 2005 -> 06:51 PM)
Yeah, those pics are from last year, but they've been planning it for awhile. Same with the A's. The Twins new stadium look badass. The new Mets stadium is supposed to be a replica of the new Yankee Stadium IIRC. Here's where you could view them.

 

http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/FutureBallparks.htm

 

 

I cant wait for the Minnesota Legislature to get its act together and pass the bill that is stalled there to allow financing for an outdoor stadium

 

I cant believe that the Yankees are paying for all of it

 

Yeah, I couldnt believe that either. Kudos to Steinbrenner

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It should be noted, the renderings of the stadium with a retractable roof are old. It will NOT have any roof of any kind. Externally, it is an almost exact replica of what Yankee Stadium looked like back in 1923. Internally, it is the same configuration as the current stadium with a modern twist.

 

It looks real slick.

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QUOTE(chimpy2121 @ Jun 15, 2005 -> 05:58 PM)
I cant believe that the Yankees are paying for all of it  :o

 

There's a loophole in the revenue sharing agreement where the Yankees won't have to pay into that if they are financing a stadium. I'm not sure if its the full amount, but its at least a huge percentage. I guess they figure it would be better to build a new stadium than help fund the competition.

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