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Originally Posted by Wayward Memphian
I like the idea of the super stadium, but that design wouldn't fly for American football in the States. As the middle of the field seats are the most desired and that really prohibits it unless the design was tweeked to provide much more seating there.
Let's take Memphis TN. It has an outdated outdoor stadium in the Liberty Bowl. It has great sightlines but due to it's era lacks ADA compliance and what little value added seating (suites and Club) it has towers above the field. The stadium effectively has about 10 events a year. With the vast majority being University of Memphis football. The 65,000 seat capacity is at least 10,000 more than needed since the city's NFL aspirations has died. The only event that needs that space is the Liberty Bowl. So that helps devalue the price the University of Memphis can charge for it's games due to supply and demand and it lacks the luxury seats to help make up the shortfall.
Memphis has a perfectly fine NBA arena in the FedEx forum. But it needs a new football first facility. What it doesn't need is some 80,000 seat monster like ATT in Aring ton or the new stadium in Atlanta. What it does need is a stadium in the 54,000 to 62,000 seat range that cane better accommodate other events. What it needs is a place that can transfer into a great large scale basketball venue to be able to host the later rounds of the NCAA tournament, have a great layout for stadium sized concert tours have an upper deck that can be partitioned off to effectively hide unused seats for smaller events and have an abundance of premium searing. Other events that could make use of the facility are other kind of events like Monster trucks, motocross, pay per view events like Wrestlemania, and if build in conjuction with a new convention center, exhibit floor space.
That all leads me to one of the designs tossed out for a new stadium in Vegas and UNLV. It has has all that flexibility with all the other massive bling folks want.
The Soccer layout shows off hiding the upper seating effectively and using it as projection purposes
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Are you purposefully bending facts to fit your agenda again?
Things that are in bold are nonfactual or conflict each other (ie non-ADA compliance with 65,000 seats). There's well below 65,5000 seats and that number has dropped throughout the past 5 or so years in order to comply with ADA regulations. Think more around 61,500.
Memphis doesn't need a domed stadium. Memphis can't afford a domed stadium.