0
![Not allowed!](images/buttons/down_dis.png)
![Not allowed!](images/buttons/up_dis.png)
Gareth Parker, The West Australian
January 1, 2011, 3:00 am
Premier Colin Barnett has received a personal briefing on more than $5 billion of new major stadium developments in the US as his Government prepares to reconsider the issue of a replacement for Patersons Stadium in Subiaco in the new year.
The briefing was the culmination of an October study tour of state-of-art stadiums in Texas, New Jersey and New York by the Department of Sport and Recreation director of strategic projects Ronnie Hurst and AFL stadium development manager Simon Gorr.
The pair were guests of South Dakota video and scoreboard designer Daktronics, which has installed big screens at dozens of US venues and has the contract for the new Gold Coast Suns AFL stadium.
Mr Barnett was briefed on the latest trends in stadium design that have been incorporated in the new homes of NFL teams the Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, New York Jets and baseball's New York Yankees and New York Mets.
The stadiums, which have all opened since April 2009 , place a premium on improved spectator comfort, premium corporate facilities and vastly expanded food, drink and retail options.
It is understood Mr Barnett was particularly taken with the New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey, a $1.6 billion facility for 82,500 spectators that is shared by the Giants and Jets football teams.
The stadium, which opened this NFL season, has been designed so each team can "brand" the venue with its own team colours, symbols and memorabilia for home games.
More than 350 pieces of signage, including at food and beverage outlets, merchandise shops and 20 giant screens around the stadium's entrance points, are changed to home team colours between games, many automatically. Mr Barnett said he was "particularly impressed" with the technology.
Officials from West Coast, Fremantle and the WA Football Commission have also been briefed on the stadiums and were urged to consider how a new facility could generate fresh revenue streams and better opportunities for fans to engage with teams.
At the $1.2 billion Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, home of the Dallas NFL team and host of next month's Superbowl, fans are able to stand in the corridor that links the team's dressing rooms to the playing field and a 49m-wide screen - the biggest high-definition display in the world - hangs from the arena's retractable roof.
Cowboys Stadium, which holds up to 110,000 people, also features sideline-level boxes with couch-style seating, more than 3000 TVs in the stadium's boxes, club lounges and concourses so fans never miss the action.
Mr Hurst said Australian stadium developments had typically approached video screens as "add-ons" but the US experience had convinced him they were integral in the planning of a new venue and could enhance fans' experience.
The Government will put the stadium issue back on the agenda next month.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-...n-us-stadiums/
Good move.
WA's design - 60,000 open stadium with a dodgy retractable seating $1.2b
v
Cowboys - 110,000 retractable roof with a 49m HD screen hanging from it $1.2b
hmmmmmmm
Perfect excuse for a junket.
CHECK IT OUT
The New Meadowlands Stadium seat view experience Select a seat and you can see what your view is like
http://www.seats3d.com/nfl/new_meadowlands/
I also read this and thought to my self what great staduims the new meadowlands and the also the new cowboys stadium for the NFL.
K and I went to the U2 Consert and came away thinking what a good showing for a large complex at Subi trains were crap buses were crap and the venue is in the wrong place and you would have thought the goverment would have looked at this event to see if the complex and facilities can cope ( which they Can't) I heard that there were 58 ,000 at each concert and the transport cant cope
Come on you pollies you got just a few months to get us our stadium like the Rebels or the titans settled b4 next election or you might be rudundant
Meadowlands at 1.6I never would have guessed that cost that much more the the Cowboys stadium. I've been to the New Meadowlands and although nice it's really nothing special like the Cowboys stadium seems to be. I'm sure part of it is the cost of land and labor is much higher in Jersey right across the river from NYC, also you have your Tony Soprano types who need to get their cut.
![]()
Yeah but that is all in US$...oh hang on...
"Bloody oath we did!"
Nathan Sharpe, Legend.
Plus we don't have any Mexicans to exploit to cut down on labour costs.
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
Plenty of labour getting locked up by the boatload...
"Bloody oath we did!"
Nathan Sharpe, Legend.