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Upgrades to Frisco's Toyota Stadium scaled back after bids come in millions over budget FRISCO -- Improvements planned for Frisco's Toyota Stadium are being scaled back after construction bids came in millions of dollars over budget. Work has been on hold for about a month after bids for the stadium's structural changes came in "at a head-scratching $511 per square foot," well above the $350 per square foot budget, FC Dallas president Dan Hunt told city officials on Tuesday. "Market conditions played a major part in this gigantic price increase," Hunt said. Subcontractors are so busy, for example, that they need to bring in crews from out of state to handle all the work. Concrete prices have increased. The elevated structure designed for the new National Soccer Hall of Fame also drove up costs. Officials were looking at about $16 million more than planned before the re-design. The revisions unveiled Tuesday will deliver all the same components but in a more consolidated way at the stadium's south end. For example, rather than elevating the Hall of Fame on a new level that's disconnected from the stadium seating, the soccer museum will now be built into the main concourse level, Hunt said. More info in link above.
Most revenant part for fans: The change means fans won't be able to traverse around the entire concourse during soccer games. Instead, they will be directed to enter the gate closest to their ticketed seats. The signature tower unveiled for the south entrance is being reconfigured. A canopy over the stands on the stadium's south side will also be reduced under the revisions.
There will be a groundbreaking ceremony for the new $350 million, 22,000-seat LAFC Stadium on Tuesday, August 23. pic.twitter.com/DuJQKnrmkF— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) August 17, 2016
Is it just me, or did LAFC get that done very quietly with almost no fuss or issue or problem whatsoever? Big contrast to NYC, Miami, Minn., DC, et al.
Depends on if you count all the years and fuss and issues and problems that were in CUSA's history, given the contention that it is the "same" LA2/MLS franchise (business asset), as it were. Perhaps LAFC is analogous, somewhat, to new ownership taking hold of a KC franchise and "immediately" getting (good) stuff done in/for that market.
I posted this story 6 years ago about the environmental impact report being done for a soccer stadium on this site. This has been in the works for a pretty long time.
Meanwhile, in St. Paul... https://www.stpaul.gov/news/mayor-c...ling-midway-master-plan-and-stadium-site-plan
Lamar Hunt an fam kept the league from folding. They are scaling back a roof and a HoF that has no home at all.
hmmm... like all San Jose :\ Plus John Doyle scored so I know it's all messed up. I was at those games, but don't remember that many shoot outs... it sucks getting old
How Garth Lagerwey landed Nicolas Lodeiro (and what it says about the Sounders’ future) FourFourTwo.com And, as a call back to the discussions that were had several weeks ago about the value of metrics in soccer..
https://www.sny.tv/redbulls/news/red-bulls-come-back-earn-point-in-el-salvador/196078860 Out of nowhere the Mets' TV network website is starting to engage in some serious local soccer coverage...got to be a back story here...couldn't be a resurrection of the NY2 stadium project around Citi Field with NYCFC partially owned by the Yankees and broadcast on the YES network...could it be the nasl cosmos angling for the same site(s) and once in a new stadium hooking up with SNY for the telecasts...probably not but there's something weird going on...