https://x.com/Broncos/status/1965455677230366968
Actually kind of nice to see. The fans already pay enough for tickets, merch, concessions, etc - they shouldn’t be paying for the stadiums, too.
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Absolutely should be the standard. Hell, I’d even put it into codified law if I had the choice.
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A lot of the stadiums built around the time of Ford Field are in the process of being replaced.
Washington, Tennessee, Cleveland, Chicago (significant renovations in the early 2000s), Denver
I hope it is to update their Input/Output panels. While the newer stadiums like SoFi, Levi Stadium, and places like Manny and Atlanta are all plug and play venues…places like FedEx Field and Soldier Field are stuck in the 80s/90s. TV crews have to home-run all of their cable connections from the truck out to the field, which is a pain in the ass.
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Won’t be an issue for too much longer
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If you can’t get even 30 years out of a state of the art stadium then I would say you suck at running a stadium. That’s what I would say if I were a city council member and some billionaire sports entrepreneur came in asking for public money to replace a stadium that’s barely old enough to rent a car. If the Broncos are putting up their own money though they can replace their stadium every 5 years for all I care.
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Stadiums should last 100 years or so. It’s insane that one’s built 20 years ago are looking at replacement.
I have not heard anybody say “I’d go to the game, but the stadium doesn’t suit my esthetic requirements.”
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Clearly haven’t talked to a lot of LA fans 
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a 100 yrs?
Current lifecycle of a building in the design world is 50yrs before you need to replace products on the envelope.
I remember when they pushed for the “new Mile High” on the heels of the Super Bowl wins in the 90’s. The old Mile High was definitely in need of replacement, and the new stadium would be state of the art and all that superlative jive. Tax payers voted for it. I’m curious how much is still owed on that one…..and who’s going to pay for the redevelopment. More to come I’m sure.
I think it’s fair to expect things to last when they cost as much as these buildings do. The empire state building is pushing 100 and it still seems to work. Wrigley and fenway are both 100 plus too.
Why not aim high?
Sure, of course you aim high, both have had modifications or updates throughout the years.
It’s a philosophical thing for me really, I’m not going to pretend that a building can last forever. It’s mostly a critique of how we look at building in our country and what our expectations are.
I understand that completely.
I’m involved in several of the large sports projects right now, United Center complex in Chicago, Miami Soccer stadium, Jaguars stadium upgrades and will be meeting with the design team on this one and others in the near future. It’s always fun and a nice change from the tower projects in FL and data centers we do a bunch on.
Codes constantly change and some can be modified or renovated some can’t. One example is parking garages, we do millions in garage screening every year, there open and closed garages with open being cheaper no Fire protection needed. In the last 12 months that code for open garages is changing due to EV being in those garages. All garages will have to be sprinkled going forward is what I’m being told. Existing will need to be modified
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An ev fire in a crowded parking garage is a scary prospect.
Are you seeing any changes in the construction market? More or fewer big projects?
It’s about the best macro economic indicator that gets overlooked.
So brief background
I have a small independent sales agency which covers FL, GA and AL for a few building mfrs. My kids are starting to run that company now with me assisting.
I took on a director of sales for NA for a building mfr out of South America where we are expanding out of the Florida market, and some East coast work. We have hired reps in 7 markets from CA/WA IL MI and SE markets.
To your question. We are seeing the same thing across the country a ton of bidding, quoting more work than ever, however, owners are still in a wait moment. I’m being told by several Intl GC’s and architects that owners are waiting for rates to move before moving forward on projects. They expect it to happen which is slowing orders to a crawl. From high end mixed use projects to medical and even data centers all are being pushed out further.
The mfr I’m working with has 75m dollar backlog in Fl alone so for now we are building up our sales network with a heavy push in the architects offices to be ready when things open up.
The heaviest bidding and active markets at this point have FL, TX and S California. I have open quotes of more 45m in Florida alone. We opened S Ca in May and have 15m in open quotes there and being told that we should be getting half of them.
The other mfrs we rep through the sales agency are seeing the same thing with their products - with most of them being smaller ticket items avg sale being 3,000-50,000. The SA company avg sale is around 1.3m so the design and sales process is typically 12-18months to get an order
Hope that answers or sort of answers the question.
Edit: we do get involved in high end homes as well and that market is still doing well in Florida and Texas. For us our products will be used on high seven figure homes and above.
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