Construction Report USA: Land of Unlimited Possibilities?

Stadium and arena projects for “Major League” franchises now routinely cost billions. However, preliminary drafts are often a means of obtaining commitments for funding from the public sector. These subsidies are actually very unpopular among people.

A complete construction report for the stadiums in the USA can be found in the current Stadionwelt INSIDE 2/2024 on three pages. This includes an overview of planned stadiums and stadium projects in the United States and Canada, a planned ballpark in Las Vegas, and the world's most expensive stadium in Chicago. Click here to go directly to the article.

Las Vegas, Chicago, Kansas City, New York, Washington… Spectacular stadium and arena projects are being discussed or recently discussed in almost every major American city and metropolis. The sheer mass can be explained by two simultaneous phenomena: the need for modernization of certain venues or the drive to further develop their respective team owners, on the one hand, and the American public's increasingly declining willingness to subsidize these. On the other side are billion dollar projects funded by taxpayers' money.

The Chicago Bears' planned new stadium could become the most expensive stadium project in the world. Image: Chicago Bears

In venue projects where these two opposing teams meet directly (including the Oakland Coliseum/Oakland A's and Arrowhead Stadium/Kansas City Chiefs), the franchise owners have openly toyed with the idea of ​​”relocating” the entire organization to another venue. Renderings for new, dazzling visual arenas are quickly created, and realism and implementation possibilities are then thought through. The Oakland Athletics unveiled plans for a new ballpark in May 2023 — 650km east of their real home in Las Vegas as the crow flies. […] (Stadionveldt, July 2, 2024)

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A complete construction report for the stadiums in the USA can be found in the current Stadionwelt INSIDE 2/2024 on three pages. This includes an overview of planned stadiums and stadium projects in the United States and Canada, a planned ballpark in Las Vegas, and the world's most expensive stadium in Chicago. Click here to go directly to the article.