Stadium Construction Discussion (No PSL/Seat selection posts)

[vanhalen26]

15 hours ago, RiotAct said:

does anyone know how many rows are in those “Field Club” sections on the Bills’ side?

Starts at row 6 over the dugout thing, ends at 37.

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

 

[Einstein]

13 minutes ago, DaBillsFanSince1973 said:

 

 

That upper deck is STEEP.

 

[RiotAct]

40 minutes ago, Einstein said:

 

That upper deck is STEEP.

 

paying homage to the Aud, of course!

[mrags]

4 hours ago, Einstein said:

 

That upper deck is STEEP.

 

Yeah the people up there better not have too many beers. You stand up after a good play and end up falling down and rolling your ass all the way down to the field. 

[Mike in Horseheads]

1 hour ago, mrags said:

Yeah the people up there better not have too many beers. You stand up after a good play and end up falling down and rolling your ass all the way down to the field. 

Well look who's back  

[LabattBlue]

Weren’t  the end zone seats in the lower level supposed to be steep and close to the field?   
 

Is this still a part of the design?

[PromoTheRobot]

Oh look, the OP NIMBYs want to kill any development around the new stadium. Brilliant. WNY in a nutshell. 🙄

 

https://www.wgrz.com/article/sports/nfl/future-of-the-bills/buffalo-bills-stadium-orchard-park-residents-argue-zoning-changes/71-bfe5d8cd-7c80-41f2-a900-ee3bde47c9e1

[Buffalo716]

18 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Oh look, the OP NIMBYs want to kill any development around the new stadium. Brilliant. WNY in a nutshell. 🙄

 

https://www.wgrz.com/article/sports/nfl/future-of-the-bills/buffalo-bills-stadium-orchard-park-residents-argue-zoning-changes/71-bfe5d8cd-7c80-41f2-a900-ee3bde47c9e1

I mean orchard Park is a small community 

 

You can't get angry that they don't want to disrupt their zoning laws 

 

They don't want orchard Park to be a town of 95,000 people and they like their spaced out feel 

 

The Buffalo Bills playing in Western New York is about keeping them here.. not building up orchard Park at the end of the day 

 

Orchard Park does not want to be built up

[WotAGuy]

25 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Oh look, the OP NIMBYs want to kill any development around the new stadium. Brilliant. WNY in a nutshell. 🙄

 

https://www.wgrz.com/article/sports/nfl/future-of-the-bills/buffalo-bills-stadium-orchard-park-residents-argue-zoning-changes/71-bfe5d8cd-7c80-41f2-a900-ee3bde47c9e1

Don’t you live in Bum***** Vermont?  And you’re calling out other rural towns?

[Saxum]

36 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Oh look, the OP NIMBYs want to kill any development around the new stadium. Brilliant. WNY in a nutshell. 🙄

 

https://www.wgrz.com/article/sports/nfl/future-of-the-bills/buffalo-bills-stadium-orchard-park-residents-argue-zoning-changes/71-bfe5d8cd-7c80-41f2-a900-ee3bde47c9e1

 

Maybe Bills should have brought this up before they settled on new stadium in Orchard Park.

[Wacka]

There will be more businesses going up. Look at Southwestern Blvd. That was all fields back in 1973 when the stadium opened.

[LABILLBACKER]

At least the upper deck doesn't look like Sofi nose bleeds. At Sofi, from 300 up the players look like ants.

[PromoTheRobot]

2 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

I mean orchard Park is a small community 

 

You can't get angry that they don't want to disrupt their zoning laws 

 

They don't want orchard Park to be a town of 95,000 people and they like their spaced out feel 

 

The Buffalo Bills playing in Western New York is about keeping them here.. not building up orchard Park at the end of the day 

 

Orchard Park does not want to be built up

 

They are home to an NFL stadium. You can't turn around and say "oh, we want to be a sleepy small town." Besides, they are talking about development near the stadium, not throughout Orchard Park.

 

If you ask me, this might be more about the businesses near the stadium now not wanting anything to change.

2 hours ago, WotAGuy said:

Don’t you live in Bum***** Vermont?  And you’re calling out other rural towns?

 

My town doesn't have an NFL team playing in it. (It's also not that rural.)

 

But since you bring it up, there is a bucolic New England town with an NFL team: Foxborough, MA. Patriot Place didn't destroy it. In fact it's a tax boon.

 

But for us, a couple of bars, a 7-11 and a Tim Horton's is all we get for "development."

Edited September 21 by PromoTheRobot

[Buffalo716]

10 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

They are home to an NFL stadium. You can't turn around and say "oh, we want to be a sleepy small town." Besides, they are talking about development near the stadium, not throughout Orchard Park.

 

If you ask me, this might be more about the businesses near the stadium now not wanting anything to change.

 

My town doesn't have an NFL team playing in it.

 

But since you bring it up, there is a bucolic New England town with an NFL team: Foxborough, MA. Patriot Place didn't destroy it. In fact it's a tax boon.

 

But for us, a couple of bars, a 7-11 and a Tim Horton's is all we get for "development."

There's literally dozens and dozens and dozens of restaurants within 2-3-5-10 miles to the stadium 

 

And the stadium is literally right next to residential homes 

 

There's literally thousands of people that live right next to the stadium and they don't want a Patriot place 

 

You can get from cheektowaga to orchard Park to depew or the city all within 15-20 minutes.. that's the beauty of Buffalo and the surrounding suburbs being so close 

 

It's not like it's just open land around the stadium.. there's thousands of residents who don't want an influx of bars or restaurants any more than what it is 

 

People move to orchard Park because it's not cheektowaga.. that is true at the end of the day.. they don't want strip malls and it being built up 

 

Orchard Park was the perfect place for the bills because it's a small town that could turn into a small City 10 times a year around the bills games 

 

The life is in the tailgating lots and the private lots and the Bills fans themselves... They don't need a Patriots place .. the lifeblood of the Bills fan is way more than commercialized business

 

The symbol of Buffalo Bills fandom is in the generations of people.. not a built structure

[QCity]

Yeah the Patriot Place talk is nuts. A good portion of the stores and restaurants at Patriot Place already exist at the McKinley Mall crossing and Quaker crossing plazas. They aren't going to pack up and magically move closer to the stadium. Also where on earth do people see the room for this? 

[mrags]

2 hours ago, Saxum said:

 

Maybe Bills should have brought this up before they settled on new stadium in Orchard Park.

If only they had thought about this before hand. Like maybe putting the stadium….. downtown 

[Buffalo716]

6 minutes ago, mrags said:

If only they had thought about this before hand. Like maybe putting the stadium….. downtown 

People are already complaining about the price... Downtown with infrastructure would've been closing in on 3 billion lol

[mrags]

8 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

People are already complaining about the price... Downtown with infrastructure would've been closing in on 3 billion lol

And they would have maximized making their money back with commercial properties nearby. Instead they built it in the middle of nowhere that has nothing nearby. Where places like the McKinley Mall nearby are closing its doors because of the lack of retail interest. Yeah. Bang up decision. 

[QCity]

9 minutes ago, mrags said:

And they would have maximized making their money back with commercial properties nearby. Instead they built it in the middle of nowhere that has nothing nearby. Where places like the McKinley Mall nearby are closing its doors because of the lack of retail interest. Yeah. Bang up decision. 

 

Lack of brick-and-mortar retail interest isn't isolated to the McKinley Mall area, it's been happening everywhere in the country. Football stadiums don't bring large economic gains - they bring parking lots.