The Twin Cities’ Met Council approved a lease with the city of St. Paul for Minnesota United‘s stadium land as expected yesterday, and as expected this didn’t make it any clearer how much money St. Paul is going to have to put up as part of the deal. But who cares, because we got renderings, baybee, whoooooooo!
This looks a fair bit like Red Bull New York‘s stadium in Harrison, N.J., except for the glowy part, which is supposed to be accomplished by wrapping the outer wall in polytetrafluoroethylene (i.e., Teflon), or probably Teflon-coated fiberglass, which is what’s used for translucent roofs like the one on the Houston Texans‘ Reliant Stadium and the new roof going up on Arthur Ashe Stadium at the U.S. Open in New York. The projected price tag for this has now gone up from $120 million to $150 million; given that the Harrison stadium cost $200 million six years ago without the fancy outer wrapping, this might be overly optimistic, but so long as United is paying for it without putting the city at risk of covering cost overruns … you see why it’s important to see the actual lease between the city and United now, right? Until then: Ooooh, shiny!
Can’t wait to see the “Unplugged” rendering of the same stadium around this time next year.
I am not sure that road map makes a ton of sense given the site, but maybe it will work. That intersection in the very extreme top right is crazy busy, and the light rail is another half block north (southeast in this picture).
It doesn’t just glow, though, it appears to be levitating over the ground on which it sits! This could make it exempt from property taxes! Oh, right, nevermind.
I really like the holographic multistorey commercial buildings too. We are getting closer to holographic replay systems/displays every single day people….
Neil;
I agree that the cost projection is probably optimistic, but wasn’t a significant contributor to RBA’s final cost greater than expected environmental clean up costs and many tons of concrete that no-one knew about (or admitted) which had to be chiselled out and disposed of?
I don’t recall an actual number for overruns related to that, but it seems to me I heard (somewhere) figures in the $30-40m range?
Glow is the new vaportecture detail of choice, replacing fireworks.