Tag: Stadiums
Stadium debt carries on for financially-strapped cities
Building big expensive sports stadiums was all the rage in the late 90s and early 2000s and now many cities are just taking the wrappings off new sports palaces. Follow the leader can be a dangerous game when you’re talking about hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding. But with these shiny new stadiums, [...]
Vikings look to market naming rights to Metrodome
The Vikings are another team in the seemingly long line of teams looking to generate money during the recession. The poison they’ve picked? stadium naming rights.
Barcelona FC “Stadium @ Sea”
Emili Vidal, the Catalan architect, has published plans for 150,000-seater football stadium just off the coast of Barcelona on an artificial island linked to the city by a bridge running from the Forum at the Diagonal Mar. The European champions commissioned Norman Foster, designer of the new Wembley stadium, in 2007 re-structure the existing Nou [...]
New Stadiums…They always cure what ails you. For a little while.
Is your favorite sports team consistently finishing at the bottom of their division? Can they not put any fans in the stands? Are you looking to even get a team in the first place? Well my friend, I have your solution. Build a new stadium! It seems to be all the rage these days. We [...]
