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He estimated that both stadiums would cost $2 billion, with city and state taxpayers contributing $1.2 billion. The West Side Stadium plan resurfaced in December 2001, and by January 2002, months after the September 11 attacks, Giuliani announced "tentative agreements" for both the New York Yankees and New York Mets to build new stadiums. However, with most of the funding coming from taxpayers, Giuliani tabled the proposal, fearing rejection in a citywide referendum. That same year, Mayor Rudy Giuliani unveiled a plan to relocate the Yankees to the West Side Yard for a $1 billion stadium. In 1998, Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer proposed spending $600 million in public money to add dozens of luxury boxes to the stadium, to improve highway and public transportation access, and to create a Yankee Village, with shops, restaurants, and a museum. By 1995, Steinbrenner had rejected 13 proposals to keep the Yankees in the Bronx.

However, Cuomo lost his re-election bid a few months later. In 1993, New York Governor Mario Cuomo proposed using the West Side Yard, a 30-acre (12 ha) rail yard along the West Side of Manhattan and owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, as the location for a new stadium for the Yankees. In 1993, Mayor David Dinkins expanded on Koch's proposal by offering his Bronx Center vision for the neighborhood, including new housing, a new courthouse, and relocating the Police Academy nearby.

Steinbrenner agreed in principle, but then backed out of the deal. In 1988, Mayor Ed Koch agreed to have city taxpayers spend $90 million on a second renovation of Yankee Stadium that included luxury boxes and restaurants inside the stadium and parking garages and traffic improvements outside. Despite the rejection from New Jersey, Steinbrenner frequently threatened to move as leverage in negotiations with New York City. In a statewide referendum in 1987, New Jersey taxpayers rejected $185 million in public financing for a baseball stadium for the Yankees. New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean in 1984 authorized the use of land for a new baseball stadium in the Meadowlands, but the state legislature did not provide financing for the stadium. Steinbrenner at the time was reportedly considering a move to the Meadowlands Sports Complex in New Jersey. New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner began campaigning for a new stadium in the early 1980s, just a few years after the remodeled Yankee Stadium opened.

2.2 Field dimensions and playing surface.

The $1.5 billion price tag makes the new Yankee Stadium one of the most expensive stadiums ever built. Although Yankee Stadium's construction began in August 2006, the project spanned many years and faced many controversies, including the high public cost and the loss of public parkland. The stadium incorporates replicas of some design elements from the original Yankee Stadium, and like its predecessor, it has hosted additional events, including college football games, soccer matches, two outdoor NHL games, and concerts. It is located one block north of the original, on the 24-acre (9.7 ha) former site of Macombs Dam Park the 8-acre (3.2 ha) site of the original stadium is now a public park called Heritage Field. The $2.3 billion stadium, built with $1.2 billion in public subsidies, replaced the original Yankee Stadium in 2009 and is the third-largest stadium in MLB by seating capacity. It is the home field for Major League Baseball's New York Yankees and Major League Soccer's New York City FC. The current Yankee Stadium is a baseball stadium located in the Bronx, New York City. Tishman Speyer/International Facilities Group, LLC. Soccer: 28,743 (Expandable to 47,309) Īp 13 years ago ( April 2, 2009) (re-opening) (workout day)Īp 13 years ago ( April 3, 2009) ( exhibition game)Īp 13 years ago ( April 16, 2009) ( regular season)

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