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NFL venues
- Allegiant StadiumRaiders owner Mark Davis retained the architecture firm MANICA to design a ten-level domed stadium in Paradise, Nevada. The structure features an ETFE roof…
- Levi's StadiumIn 1997, San Francisco voters approved $100 million in city spending to build a new stadium and an attached shopping mall at Candlestick Point.
- Acrisure StadiumGround was broken for the stadium on the 18th of June 1999. The project cost $281 million and stood along the Ohio River in Pittsburgh's North Shore…
- MetLife StadiumIn 2010, the New Meadowlands Stadium Company, LLC opened its doors to replace Giants Stadium. This joint venture between the New York Giants and the New York…
- Lincoln Financial FieldLincoln Financial Field opened its doors on the 3rd of August 2003 with a soccer match that drew 68,396 fans to watch Manchester United defeat Barcelona 3-1…
- NRG StadiumThe Houston NFL Holdings group approached HOK Sport in 1997 to begin the schematic design for a stadium that would replace the Astrodome.
- Empower Field at Mile HighIn November 1998, Denver voters passed Referendum 4A to fund a new football stadium. This vote extended a tenth of a percent sales tax on transactions within…
- Gillette StadiumOn the 6th of December 1999, the town of Foxborough approved plans for a new stadium. This decision followed years of political maneuvering and financial…
- Hard Rock StadiumIn 1976, the city of Miami demanded a fourfold increase in rent for the Dolphins' existing home at the Orange Bowl. Team founder Joe Robbie decided to build…
- Highmark StadiumOn the 10th of February 2014, Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration appointed Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster to a new study…
- M&T Bank StadiumGround broke for the new stadium in mid-1996, shortly after the arrival of the Ravens. The team played its first two years at Memorial Stadium before moving…
- Northwest StadiumJack Kent Cooke died months before the stadium opened on the 14th of September 1997. He had chosen Wilson Dairy Farm in Landover, Maryland, as the site for…
- Paycor StadiumHamilton County voters passed a one-half percent sales tax increase in 1996 to fund the building of two new home venues for both the Bengals and MLB's…
- Arrowhead StadiumVoters in Jackson County approved a $102 million bond issue in 1967 to build a new sports complex. This decision followed the departure of the Kansas City…
- Lumen FieldLumen Field sits in Seattle's SoDo neighborhood, one mile from downtown, and it has held a Guinness World Record for the loudest outdoor stadium crowd twice…
- Caesars SuperdomePlans to build the Superdome were drawn up in 1967 by the New Orleans modernist architectural firm of Curtis and Davis. Local businessman David Dixon…
- Ford FieldOn the 20th of August 1996, the Detroit Lions announced their intention to build a new stadium in Downtown Detroit. Voters approved a referendum for the…
- Lucas Oil StadiumLucas Oil Stadium opened on the 16th of August 2008, and it did so by replacing something Indianapolis had relied on for nearly a quarter century.
- Raymond James StadiumIn 1995, new owner Malcolm Glazer purchased the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for a record $192 million. He immediately declared the existing twenty-eight-year-old…
- Wembley StadiumWembley Stadium opened in 2007 atop a peculiar piece of buried history: when excavators dug down for the new pitch, their machines hit the concrete…
- Huntington Bank FieldCleveland Stadium stood on the site from 1931 to 1996. During the 1995 season, owner Art Modell announced his plans to move the team to Baltimore.
- Lambeau FieldLambeau Field sits in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a city of modest size in the north central United States, yet it holds a stadium that ranks as the second-largest…
- Soldier FieldOn the 11th of August 1922, ground broke for a stadium that would cost $13 million to build. This sum was massive for the era, especially when compared to…
- U.S. Bank StadiumU.S. Bank Stadium sits on the east side of downtown Minneapolis, on the exact ground where the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome stood for more than three decades.
- AT&T StadiumIn 1994, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones proposed expanding the existing Texas Stadium by up to 40,000 seats. He envisioned a year-round venue featuring…
- Mercedes-Benz StadiumThe stadium's signature feature is its retractable roof, which features a pinwheel consisting of eight translucent triangular panels.
- State Farm StadiumState Farm Stadium sits in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb west of Phoenix, and it has hosted more defining American sports moments than almost any other…
- Tom Benson Hall of Fame StadiumThe year 1937 marked the start of a massive construction project in Canton, Ohio. Federal workers poured concrete and raised steel beams under the direction…
- EverBank StadiumConstruction began on the 3rd of January 1994 for a new stadium in downtown Jacksonville. The project replaced the aging Gator Bowl Stadium which had stood…
- Nissan Stadium (Nashville)On the 7th of May 1996, voters in Metropolitan Nashville/Davidson County approved a partial funding plan for a new stadium.
- Estadio AztecaEstadio Azteca sits 7,200 feet above sea level in the Coyoacán district of Mexico City, where the thin air and the roar of nearly 88,000 people have shaped…
- Bank of America StadiumThe ground beneath Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, once held the Good Samaritan Hospital. This location was chosen for the stadium…