150 Million Dollar Green "Bounce House" for the price of 300 Million??

[bullstampede9922]

If you look at the first image of snapdragon stadium, those are reinforced concrete pieces supported by those large steel columns.  Just because you can see exposed steel doesn't mean it is supporting metal bleachers in the USF rendering.  

[Roaming Bull]

5 hours ago, bull2bull said:

 

FAU - 2010 - $70 Million 30K Seating

USF - 2027 - $300 Million 35K Seating (assuming $40 million is being used for the TGH center for athletic excellence)

Seems about right. Have you heard of…. Inflation? Right now

 Percent. Plus the “supply chain” issues. Add in a couple wars, weather issues, and random other world events. Hell we’ll be lucky to get this thing build under $325 million with the way things are looking right now. You want cup holders? That might be an extra 15-20 million easy.

[Rocky Style]

Yes and inflation doesn't just happen.  So we are paying for our collective choices now.

[Sk00b]

1 hour ago, USF968 said:

I expected to be similar to snapdragon Stadium.

Naa. It's a piece of ****. I see steel support beams.

[Bob Loblaw]

Agree with many here. Exposed stadium beams look el cheapo. No way around that. We all expected more. 

[Bob Loblaw]

Agree with many here. Exposed stadium beams look el cheapo. No way around that. We all expected more. 

[macphisto]

11 minutes ago, Bob Loblaw said:

Agree with many here. Exposed stadium beams look el cheapo. No way around that. We all expected more. 

This was preliminary and does not reflect a final design. Crazy overreation to a conceptual render that will change.

[WoolyBully]

Is "conceptual" something we had the intern draw up based on what we told her the rest of us talked about over lunch? 'cause just the phrase "conceptual" is pretty nebulous. Just how close to the finished product does it have to be: "OK, let's say the orientation is east-west, and uh...let's say, seats around thirty-thousand, and...ok, let's add a couple of elevations. There. There's your placeholder. How's that. Just something to think about."

[Bulls On Parade]

Snapdragon Stadium last year was $310 million and capacity is 35,000 also.  I think what we are getting is going to be comparable. 

 

 

Edited December 8, 2023 by Bulls On Parade

[Dave_Glaser]

Oh brother! Had no idea we had so many amateur engineers, etc. here. We have a flipping football stadium coming and a bunch of numbnuts are critiquing one computer-generated sketch and deciding it’s a failure. Not to be believed. Honestly, UNBELIEVABLE. OK, now go ahead and unload on me. Go Bulls?