Ron Newman
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Might be a good use for some of the McCourt (now Fox) land.
Ron Newman said:Might be a good use for some of the McCourt (now Fox) land.
chumbolly said:From the Herald:
They also often double as concert venues, one local sports executive says. With a central, urban location like Somerville, the Krafts would immediately become players in the local concert industry and a powerful competitor to the suburban Tweeter Center, which is not far from Gillette Stadium.
czsz said:A new T-accessible concert location? Well, sure. But it seems redundant with Gilette infrastructurally. Won't this just mean both stadia will sit empty more often than they would if the Pats and Revs played in the same one? I'm straining to see the compelling new need for this.
BostonSkyGuy said:czsz said:A new T-accessible concert location? Well, sure. But it seems redundant with Gilette infrastructurally. Won't this just mean both stadia will sit empty more often than they would if the Pats and Revs played in the same one? I'm straining to see the compelling new need for this.
Soccer is horrible at Gilette. The stadium is too large for soccer and with the American soccer crowds being smaller than what the capacity for these large football stadiums hold--the atmosphere is brutal. I think the average crowd in the MLS was 16,000+ last year and that doesn't translate well into a 68,000 seat football stadium.
In Chicago, they built a soccer specific stadium that seats 20,000 for soccer and 28,000 for concerts. It's supposed to be one of the best places in the US to watch a soccer game. Here's a link to the Chicago Fire's official site for the stadium specs: http://web.mlsnet.com/t100/stadium/ I do find it hard to believe that it only cost $1.7 million to build, but if that's the case then I'd love to see what the Krafts could build for something like $10 million.
As for the football stadium seeing less action, that's the case for most NFL stadiums and there really isn't anything you can do about it, unless they open it up for more concerts. It's funny how they spend close to a billion dollars on these stadiums to host (their primary function) 8 NFL games a year. It's the owners money though and if they didn't make it back, they wouldn't do it.
czsz said:A new T-accessible concert location? Well, sure. But it seems redundant with Gilette infrastructurally. Won't this just mean both stadia will sit empty more often than they would if the Pats and Revs played in the same one? I'm straining to see the compelling new need for this.
smw2340 said:The "turf management system" was only $1.7 million. The total stadium was in excess of $100 million.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Park_(Bridgeview)
Ah, okay I knew that it couldn't have only been $1.7 million but based on the write-up from the team's website it had me thinking that.
Here is it from the Chicago Fire's own website (link posted in my original post) "The stadium opened its doors on June 11, 2006 when the Chicago Fire played its first MLS match on the $1.7 million dollar MLS regulation sized soccer field." Pretty misleading.
nico said:If only the Krafts could've gotten their football stadium built in the city...I hate going to Foxborough.