Chicago— New Stadium Renderings

[Irv]

10 hours ago, That's No Moon said:

I drove past Foxboro a couple months ago. I saw two hotels and a strip mall. Impressive really.

 

Granted, it's two more hotels and 1 more strip mall more than OP has built at the stadium in 50 years but whatever. There wasn't a specific reason to stop. What Denver is doing around Mile High was more impressive but it's also way closer to downtown than either OP or Foxboro.

 

Bah.  Who needs that stuff.  There's a perfectly good Red Carpet Inn across the street for $700/night most game nights.  They don't even charge extra for the pet cockroaches.     

[May Day 10]

It is a neat presentation

 

 

But man, everything looks and feels like it is a large airport.  Soul-less, colorless pile of blah.  Trying to get as many people away from their seats as possible to head to baggage claim or check their fantasy teams or whatever

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

Ouch:

 

https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-editorial-soldier-field-chicago-bears-20230109-xbfrocaeq5fmrkby7o4mkvjptq-story.html

 

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/1/9/23545631/a-flag-on-the-play-latest-soldier-field-plan-is-a-false-start-on-stadiums-future

 

 

[Sammy Watkins' Rib]

Looks like an open-air canopy stadium similar to SoFi. Has the standing room only areas too. 

[SoCal Deek]

As I mentioned when the Bills renderings were released, creating these type of videos is relatively easy once the 3D model is built. I’m still not sure why the Bills presentation was limited to just a couple of still frame rendered views. Disappointing. 

[What a Tuel]

14 minutes ago, May Day 10 said:

It is a neat presentation

 

 

But man, everything looks and feels like it is a large airport.  Soul-less, colorless pile of blah.  Trying to get as many people away from their seats as possible to head to baggage claim or check their fantasy teams or whatever

 

I was curious how many people are going to be dining out at a table during the game....

[Rubes]

19 minutes ago, \GoBillsInDallas/ said:

Ouch:

 

https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-editorial-soldier-field-chicago-bears-20230109-xbfrocaeq5fmrkby7o4mkvjptq-story.html

 

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/1/9/23545631/a-flag-on-the-play-latest-soldier-field-plan-is-a-false-start-on-stadiums-future

 

 

Great line from the Sun-Times: “Unlike the Bears offense last Sunday, we’ll pass.”

Another tidbit from that article I didn’t know: “Current NFL rules require a Super Bowl host stadium to have a capacity of at least 70,000 seats.”

 

Edited January 10, 2023 by Rubes

[LeGOATski]

This is supposed to be some sort of dunk on Buffalo because the OP wants a roof. Can't let it go.

[BillsDad51]

Last time around, the city had 3 or 4 parcels where they could build a domed stadium. Mayor Daley dictated that Soldier Field be renovated instead. McCaskey family went along. City passed away numerous opportunities to host a Super Bowl.

[Utah John]

Chicago's aiming for a world-class facility, and it has the history to back up its claim to that status.  Buffalo is much smaller and is not a world-class city.  I think I'm just being realistic here, not trying to cut down my home town.  

 

As to putting the new stadium in OP, a small part of that is to enable fanatical tailgaters to continue their parties, and that's fine.  A bigger part, I think, is money, and another bigger part is time.  Putting the stadium downtown would have required far more time to coordinate and fight lawsuits from who knows where -- but there would be lots.  And money to open up a good space for the stadium and parking, and to redo the infrastructure (roads, highways, water, sewer) would have busted the budget.

 

Someone in Chicago spent a lot of money for that great visualization.  Maybe that was a good investment, to get the city behind the proposed changes, but Buffalo would dismiss such an exorbitant dream as crazy.

[Whkfc]

Didn't they just redo solder field like a 1 billion reno?

[gjv]

I believe the Powers to Be in planning and approving the new WNY stadium made an economic blunder by not putting the stadium in downtown Buffalo. In my opinion, the ancillary economic benefit of the stadium would have been much greater for WNY in the downtown location than in Orchard Park.

[ddaryl]

17 minutes ago, gjv said:

I believe the Powers to Be in planning and approving the new WNY stadium made an economic blunder by not putting the stadium in downtown Buffalo. In my opinion, the ancillary economic benefit of the stadium would have been much greater for WNY in the downtown location than in Orchard Park.

 

 

and 70 % of the fans would of been pissed because traffic and the lack of the type of tailgating they are used to you would not get in the city.

 

not to mention buiding it in Buffalo stil adds probably $500 million is costs to update the area to handle 60000 people.. Not to mention all those houses you would have kick/buy people out of to make it happen.. I'm positive they did many studies and they all showed that the increased investment could not be recouped with a dome or a city Stadium

Edited January 10, 2023 by ddaryl

[LeGOATski]

21 minutes ago, gjv said:

I believe the Powers to Be in planning and approving the new WNY stadium made an economic blunder by not putting the stadium in downtown Buffalo. In my opinion, the ancillary economic benefit of the stadium would have been much greater for WNY in the downtown location than in Orchard Park.

Well, they did an actual economic study on it.

 

Where's your report?

[Motor26]

The Bears already committed to leaving the city...this is Lori Lightfoot trying to get them to stay to help her mayoral reelection bid.

[dollars 2 donuts]

 

 

We are still looking at this all wrong.

 

We SHOULD have a domed stadium, because then we can put solar panels all over that sucker and have it be an energy self-sufficient meeting place for sports and entertainment.

 

If we heat the heck out of the dome the water runoff from all the snow can be recycled and also stored for cooling the place during the summer months.  

 

All the feces and waste during and after events can also be retooled into energy.

 

Jeepers, why the heck is it always my job to come up with these great ideas?

 

 

 

 

Edited January 10, 2023 by dollars 2 donuts

[Irish Dave]

No Thanks.  It looks like an airport.  New stadiums are all about what ELSE you can do other than sit in your seat and watch the game, creating half empty seats.  Also any dome I've ever been in is echoey and hollow; no atmosphere. 

 

[That's No Moon]

2 hours ago, Not at the table Karlos said:

I had no reason to stop so I made one. Pulled up the shout song on YouTube and played it at full blast while I drove laps around the parking lot. We ended up going to eat at one of the restaurants and watch Thursday night football. 

Well done.

[TheFunPolice]

I was watching that thinking "is there a football field in there somewhere?"

 

It's like a shopping mall and an airport had a baby

[Nextmanup]

I don't get this modern trend of making the stadium about anything and everything OTHER than a place to watch a football game.

Who the hell is going to go in there to "hang out" while a football game is going on?

 

Who is going to go in there to hang out while a football game is NOT going on?

 

If only this country spent as much time and money on our roads and bridges.