Author: Tim Newcomb

At Tottenham’s Home, a Field for All Football

Posted by | May 3, 2019 |

Home team’s natural grass will move aside for artificial turf when NFL arrives, thanks to some nifty engineering Tottenham Hotspur opened its 62,062-seat stadium on High Road in the Tottenham district of North London in April, ending a construction delay of seven months that moved more than half a soccer season and three planned NFL games from the new venue.  The NFL was planning to start playing games in the venue last fall as part of a 10-year agreement that includes at least two regular-season games at Tottenham every season. That agreement will now kick off in October, when the Chicago Bears play the Oakland Raiders on Oct. 6 and Carolina Panthers-Tampa Bay Buccaneers follows a week later. When the NFL comes to town, the $1.3 billion stadium will reveal one of its niftiest technological tricks: It can retract its natural grass pitch to reveal an artificial surface to host… Continue Reading At Tottenham’s Home, a Field for All Football

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Soccer Takes a Step in St. Louis

Soccer Takes a Step in St. Louis

Posted by | Apr 25, 2019 | , ,

The new renderings show a stadium built for a capacity of 22,500 to 25,500. (HOK and Snow Kreilich) With MLS planning further expansion, new renderings released When Major League Soccer last week announced plans to expand to 30 teams instead of the previously announced 28, it also said it wanted to “advance discussions” with ownership groups in Sacramento and St. Louis. Sacramento’s stadium plan has been set for years, awaiting MLS acceptance, but announcement of the two additional expansion slots has given fresh momentum to a new stadium plan in St. Louis. Soon afterward, architects HOK, working with Julie Snow of Snow Kreilich Architects of Minneapolis, released the latest officialrenderings of a planned soccer stadium in the city’s Downtown West District. It would be built just west of Enterprise Center, where the NHL’s Blues play. The soccer-specific venue aims for a capacity of 22,500 to 25,500. A major entry plaza… Continue Reading Soccer Takes a Step in St. Louis

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Price at $900M as Seattle Arena Work Advances

Price at $900M as Seattle Arena Work Advances

Posted by | Apr 19, 2019 | , ,

Seattle Center Arena has been prepped for interior demolition, but the roof will remain above as the work goes on. (Tim Newcomb) Ownership group’s Tod Leiweke: “We realize how epic this project is” SEATTLE — The leaders behind the effort to remake Seattle Center Arena in time to host the expansion NHL Seattle franchise’s first season in 2021 are clear to call the project a new arena under a historic roof. This is no renovation. And now OVG-Seattle, the group leading the privately financed upgrade, has a fresh price tag to go with the rebuild effort: between $900 million and $930 million. During a tour of the early demolition work inside the arena, Tod Leiweke, CEO of Seattle Hockey Partners and part of an ownership group led by David Bonderman and Jerry Bruckheimer, revealed that the OVG ownership group has finalized the cost of the project, which was originally estimated… Continue Reading Price at $900M as Seattle Arena Work Advances

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‘Buy Me Some Peanuts and Cracker Jack’

‘Buy Me Some Peanuts and Cracker Jack’

Posted by | Apr 18, 2019 | , ,

The Dilly Dog was a rookie sensation for the Texas Rangers and Delaware North Sportservice last season. (Courtesy Delaware North Sportservice) Expansion of MLB FoodFest a testament to baseball’s ties to food After the success of Major League Baseball’s inaugural FoodFest event in New York City in 2018, the league has not only brought back the event but also expanded it to Los Angeles and London for 2019. The event, which makes its first appearance in LA later this month, brings unique concession items from all 30 MLB stadiums under one roof and testifies to the prominence of concessions at the heart of the baseball stadium experience. “Baseball games appear to be about the experience throughout the ballpark as much as it is about seeing the two teams play,” said Andrew Spencer, vice president of customer engagement and revenue at Delaware North. Compared with in-game transactions at NFL, NHL and… Continue Reading ‘Buy Me Some Peanuts and Cracker Jack’

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New Name Puts the ‘Sports’ Into This Sports Complex

Posted by | Apr 3, 2019 |

Dignity Health’s naming-rights deal for the  Galaxy’s home took effect in January. (Courtesy Dignity Health Sports Park) Once the Galaxy and Dignity Health agreed on the naming-rights deal, then came the fun part: coming up with the actual name of the site.  Katie Pandolfo, Dignity Health Sports Park general manager, said that in her 15 years working there the “center” name was used in an effort to help convey that the complex is more than a soccer stadium, but it also made people who weren’t familiar with the site wonder what the venue was all about.  The confusion may end with the new name. “Sports park defines itself,” she said.  Plus, with five Olympic sports already slated for the site when Los Angeles hosts the Olympics in 2028, Pandolfo said they had already agreed with the organizing committee they were going to call the venue the South Bay Sports Park.… Continue Reading New Name Puts the ‘Sports’ Into This Sports Complex

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