New stadium info: Stadium to cost over 1.2bil - Countdown to August 2014

[threelittleturds]

Earthquakes-Sounders to Open Levi?s® Stadium

1st event won't even be a 49ers game. Fucking soccer.

 

[RegentDenali]

Great to hear that the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl will move to the new Santa Clara stadium next year. I hate any bowl games being held in baseball stadiums.

Because of the obvious upgrade in facilities, it now nailed a previous 6th to now 4th boost up the PAC12 bowl bid order + the Big10 signed a multi year tie-in. Good boost to the west coast representing college football. Most Big10 teams travel very well for any games, especially bowls.

 

[Rvnight18]

Great to hear that the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl will move to the new Santa Clara stadium next year. I hate any bowl games being held in baseball stadiums.

Because of the obvious upgrade in facilities, it now nailed a previous 6th to now 4th boost up the PAC12 bowl bid order + the Big10 signed a multi year tie-in. Good boost to the west coast representing college football. Most Big10 teams travel very well for any games, especially bowls.

I am an tOSU fan, and there just are not many high end jobs in the area like on the east or west coast. Big schools that graduate a lot of kids, that move to warmer climates with better jobs. I believe the new contract includes playing in BIG country as well. Something like every other year?

 

[Liberal Icon]

Joe Montana says San Francisco should've kept 49ers - ESPN

I think Montana blaming the leaders is misplaced since we know, the people of San Francisco did not want the public to fund the stadium and not enough investors at the time willing to shed money for the stadium. If you put it at the ballot and regardless of the marketing you do the public says no, there is not very much you can do.

 

[upyourwazzu420]

oh god im sorry but as a seahawk fan... i would feel so sorry for you guys if you had to share a stadium with the Raiders. GROSS!!!!

 

[NinerSickness]

Unless some miracle happens, the final game at Candlestick will be Dec. 23rd VS Atlanta.

 

[BINGO]

49ers will not play at home on Monday Night Football or Thursday | Chat49ers.com

 

[Yadahell]

Lack of parking will block in 49ers on weeknight games - SFGate

 

[poewelch84]

This weeknight game thing kind of sucks because they are the only games I really have a chance to watch with were I live. Well Sunday Night games as well.

 

[ChrisPozz]

Levi's Stadium

 

[Breaker99]

Was watching a special on candlestick last night....

They built it for 15 million dollars. Times sure have changed.

 

[chunky415]

49ers new stadium adding 10,000 parking spaces; Monday night games back on - San Jose Mercury News

San Francisco 49ers trade revenue for 10,000 new Santa Clara Levi's Stadium parking spaces - Silicon Valley Business Journal

 

[MHSL82]

Owner Mark Davis: Oakland is on its 'last chance' to keep Raiders - CBSSports.com

The Raiders want a new stadium and if something doesn't happen soon, they might be leaving Oakland. Owner Mark Davis said this week that he wants to stay in the city where his team has been since 1995, but he needs to see some progress as far as stadium planning goes.

An investment group led by the world's third-largest privately held real estate firm, Colony Capital LLC, made headlines in October when they promised to redevelop the coliseum-area into a 'sports and entertainment center.'

"We are very enthusiastic about the opportunity… to develop this unique property, which we expect will become a transformational and vital urban, residential sports and entertainment center for [Oakland]," Colony CEO Thomas J. Barrack, Jr. said in October, via the Oakland Tribune.

If Colony Capital's plans fizzle out though, the Raiders will likely be leaving Oakland.

"I don't want to call it a last-ditch effort, but it does seem to be the last chance that Oakland is going to get," Davis told the San Francisco Chronicle. "We can't continue to play in that stadium, with the baseball field and all of that stuff."

The Raiders lease at O.co Coliseum actually expired after the 2013 season and the team could've looked at moving to another city, but Davis and the Raiders agreed to a one-year extension to stay in Oakland. Davis made the agreement with hopes of seeing the stadium project move forward in 2014.

The Colony Capital deal looked promising when it was announced in October, but almost five months later, Davis hasn't heard anything regarding the project moving forward.

"They brought in Colony Capital and based on that, I decided to go ahead and do a one-year extension with them. But there's been no progress," Davis said. "I had high hopes when Colony Capital came in. I still do have hopes, but they're not as high because I haven't really heard anything positive from either group. It's gone silent again. We have to get something done."

If something doesn't get done, then 2014 could be the Raiders final year in Oakland. However, Davis didn't want to talk about a possible move to another city, "I don't want to talk about using someplace else for leverage," Davis said. "If I get something done in Oakland, I am staying."

The Raiders had a chance to move-in with the 49ers at their new stadium, but Davis decided that wasn't in the best interest of his team. That's a decision he still doesn't regret, "I really believe with the 49ers moving down to Santa Clara, and leaving the San Francisco Bay Area, that it leaves it wide open for someone to say, 'Wow, this is really a good opportunity for Oakland,' Davis said.

 

[MHSL82]

Too bad he wasn't a Niners fan. We could have one of candlestick Park or of the new stadium.

MSN Entertainment - Man Builds Giants Stadium Replica

 

[ZepTepi]

Turf Time!

Tomorrow is turf day! The new turf is scheduled to be laid down tomorrow & Friday.

For those of you not checking the Levi's Stadium website almost daily like myself:

Headlines | Levi's Stadium

Live view of the stadium:

Live View | Levi's Stadium

 

[sjballer03]

Tomorrow is turf day! The new turf is scheduled to be laid down tomorrow & Friday.

For those of you not checking the Levi's Stadium website almost daily like myself:

Headlines | Levi's Stadium

Live view of the stadium:

Live View | Levi's Stadium

New 49ers Levi's Stadium gets its field as opening day nears in Santa Clara - San Jose Mercury News

 

[-AC-]

I'm so glad the new stadium naming rights went to such an iconic company like Levi's! I was just checking out the slide show of pics of the new stadium, and the Levi logo that looms over the stadium is something I won't mind seeing for the next several years! It is such a relief that the naming rights didn't go to some .com company or technological company that may or may not even be around in five or ten years from now!

Just had to throw that out there!