(05-11-2023, 09:25 AM)Jag149 Wrote:

(05-10-2023, 08:37 PM)GaJag Wrote: Basically said the renovations will require the team to play elsewhere for two. But where? Thoughts?

London

Of course that’s impossible. Other nearby venues suitable for hosting NFL games are scarce. I don’t see an option other than playing in the stadium during renovation. 

The best solution, in my eyes, would be a new stadium in the Lot J and Fairgrounds footprint. Unfortunately, the track record of this team makes convincing tax payers to help with a new stadium out of the question right now. However, if they can kick this can down the road for a few years, I think attitudes will change.

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(05-11-2023, 09:41 AM)mikesez Wrote: The option we should hope for is that they figure out how to copy what Miami did.  Use the exact same foundation and put new stands and a shade structure on it. 

Copying Tampa, and building the new stadium next door to the old one is tempting, but remember all that land is contaminated. The whole reason the stadium is where it is, and why it was able to be built relatively cheap in the first place, is they recycled a deep foundation dating back to before there were as many EPA type regulations, and they knew most of the contamination that's in the neighboring lots didn't affect that site because there had been a stadium there since the 1930s.  So building a new stadium next to the old one is probably the most expensive option.  Lots of soil remediation would be needed.

Another option would be building a new stadium somewhere else.  Every non residential area on the central Northside with good connections to the expressways is already well-used for offices and logistics, or is likely contaminated from the WWII days.  You need a place with expressway connections that's more derelict, that was still cowtown in those early industrial days. Regency Square Mall comes to mind.

Some coworkers and I were discussing this option earlier. Without an in-depth survey to reference, it seems like a good alternative .

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