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Is this where a new stadium will be built

mc52beast

By mc52beast,
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1 minute ago, Anybodyhome said:

Most people here don't remember how Charlotte was promised a Super Bowl when the previous commissioner of the NFL welcomed the Carolina Panthers to the league....

I know all of you who live in Charlotte and like the light rail are disappointed.  However if your someone like me who has lived all over the Carolinas and lives in SC you're ecstatic.

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2 minutes ago, theballboy said:

There will definitely not be enough hotels at the state line.

There are a ton of hotels there because York County is cheaper.  Long term this is great for Charlotte and Rock Hill.  While Charlotte will be disappointed to not have it uptown...they'll get an opportunity to develop a new area of the city.  Also...if your visiting to see the game...how cool would it be to go to Carowinds and then walk over and see the night game.  In addition, because the Charlotte city government is comprised of idiots who built a non expandable minor league baseball stadium in uptown.....there would be a faint possibility of a future MLB stadium right next to the football stadium.  Think big and think long term.

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The location of the Super Bowl is chosen by the NFL well in advance, usually three to five years before the game. Cities place bids to host a Super Bowl and are evaluated in terms of stadium renovation and their ability to host.[43][49] In 2014, a document listing the specific requirements of Super Bowl hosts was leaked, giving a clear list of what was required for a Super Bowl host.[50] Much of the cost of the Super Bowl is to be assumed by the host community, although some costs are enumerated within the requirements to be assumed by the NFL. Some of the host requirements include:

  • The host stadium must be in a market that hosts an NFL team and must have a minimum of 70,000 seats, with the media and electrical amenities necessary to produce the Super Bowl. Stadiums may include temporary seating for Super Bowls, but seating must be approved by the league. Stadiums where the average game day temperature is below 50° Fahrenheit must either have a roof, or a waiver given by the league. There must be a minimum of 35,000 parking spaces within one mile of the stadium.
  • The host stadium must have space for the Gameday Experience, a large pregame entertainment area, within walking distance of the stadium.
  • The host city must have space for the NFL Experience, the interactive football theme park which is operated the week prior to the Super Bowl. An indoor venue for the event must have a minimum of 850,000 square feet, and an outdoor venue must have a minimum of 1,000,000 square feet. Additionally, there must be space nearby for the Media Center, and space for all other events involved in the Super Bowl week, including golf courses and bowling alleys.
  • The necessary infrastructure must be in place around the stadium and other Super Bowl facilities, including parking, security, electrical needs, media needs, communication needs and transportation needs.
  • There must be a minimum number of hotel spaces within one hour's drive of the stadium equaling 35% of the stadium's capacity, along with hotels for the teams, officials, media and other dignitaries. (For Super Bowl XXXIX, the city of Jacksonville docked several luxury cruise liners at their port to act as temporary hotel space.[51])
  • There must be practice space of equal and comparable quality for both teams within a 20-minute drive of the team hotels, and rehearsal space for all events within a reasonable distance to the stadium. The practice facilities must have one grass field and at least one field of the same surface as the host stadium.
  • The stadium must have a minimum of 70,000 fixed seats, including club and fixed suite seating, during regular season operations.

The NFL owners meet to make a selection on the site, usually three to five years prior to the event. In 2007, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell suggested that a Super Bowl might be played in London, perhaps at Wembley Stadium.[52] The game has never been played in a region that lacks an NFL franchise; seven Super Bowls have been played in Los Angeles, but none were held there in the 21-year period when the league had no team in the area. New Orleans, the site of the 2013 Super Bowl, invested more than $1 billion in infrastructure improvements in the years leading up to the game.[53]

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5 minutes ago, TheMaulClaw said:

There are a ton of hotels there because York County is cheaper.  Long term this is great for Charlotte and Rock Hill.  While Charlotte will be disappointed to not have it uptown...they'll get an opportunity to develop a new area of the city.  Also...if your visiting to see the game...how cool would it be to go to Carowinds and then walk over and see the night game.  In addition, because the Charlotte city government is comprised of idiots who built a non expandable minor league baseball stadium in uptown.....there would be a faint possibility of a future MLB stadium right next to the football stadium.  Think big and think long term.

Walk over? That's a hell of a walk from Carowinds to this site across some busy ass roads

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Felix Sabates is successful because he's a scumbag. I have family friends that know him well. I'm betting he's the little birdie that's been dropping all of these rumors(ie the gov't official is probably linked to him). It's absolutely a possibility that they could move a stadium 30 minutes outside of center city, and they'd just fill the space in with skyscrapers. I still think when you have a chance to keep a stadium downtown, walking distance from a bunch of major hotels, it'd be stupid to move it out to the middle of nowhere. Richardson has always limited events at the stadium to about 10 non-football events per year. Just opening that access up would bring in a huge amount of revenue without necessitating the complete rebuild of a stadium that's already perfectly situated and in the middle of the pack with regards to age and amenities. Moving just to get higher parking revenues and a dome would be dumb, but feigning the possibility of doing that would be good business. 

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