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Sports facilities today look different. The updated and ideal fan experience influences the design as teams compete with HD streaming to make an expensive outing to a game worthwhile.
As a result, builders’ work at stadiums often revolves around installing massive screens, providing premium seating and creating comfort and ease for attendees, whether in their seats or exploring the concourse and surroundings.
Here’s a look at some of the major league sports stadiums that are bucking the trend and are slated to reach the finish line by 2024.
Intuit Dome
Location: Inglewood, California
Contractor: AECOM Hunt/Turner
Cost: $2 billion
The Intuit Dome will become one of the most expensive sports venues ever built.
Courtesy of Los Angeles Clippers
When the 2024-25 NBA season begins, the Los Angeles Clippers will move out of Crypto.com Arena (formerly the Staples Center, which they currently share with their hometown rivals the Lakers) and onto their own court. This means that AECOM Hunt and Turner will have to deliver the project in the autumn of this year.
The joint venture began pouring the $2 billion from the Intuit Dome Foundation in January 2022 and finished its concrete frame six months later. When completed later this year, the stadium’s facilities will include nearly 18,000 seats, five basketball courts, a 38,375-square-foot Halo Board screen, more than 120 restrooms and more than 300 vehicle charging stations electric
One of the most expensive venues ever built, the Intuit Dome will create more than 7,000 jobs in construction throughout the life cycle of their project, according to a Clippers fact sheet.
The project is also seeking LEED Platinum certification, the highest available, according to AECOM’s website. The The project team claims the stadium will run 100% carbon free from opening.
Scotiabank Arena
Place: Toronto
Contractor: PCL Construction
Cost: $350 million
The Mastercard Lounge, one of the premium spaces renovated by PCL last summer.
Courtesy of PCL Construction
In the fall of 2023, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment announced the $350 million Scotiabank Arena reimagining projecta multi-phase renovation to the home of the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs and the NBA’s Toronto Raptors.
Last summer, the project team renovated and updated the premium spaces on the 200 level and added new technology to the concessions, including artificial intelligence technology to purchase items without queuing.
When the current home team seasons end, PCL will begin “a comprehensive 100-level arena design makeover,” according to the release.
Upgrades before the teams’ regular seasons resume this fall will include modernized grab-and-go style concession stands; an additional shop; a redesigned broadcast studio and a new Tunnel Club on the event level, with close-up views of players entering the bowl from the locker room.
Rogers Center Renovation
Place: Toronto
Contractor: PCL Construction
Cost: $300 million
PCL began structural demolition of the central bowl of the Rogers Center in the fall.
Courtesy of PCL Construction
PCL Construction remains busy in its home country. Over the past two seasons, the contractor has made substantial renovations to the 34-year-old home of MLB’s Toronto Blue Jays.
The contractor finished the works on First phase of the Rogers Centre in April 2023, it included a new weight room, staff locker rooms, more social spaces and patios, and seat replacements.
Since last fall, based in Edmonton, Alberta the contractor has worked on the second phase of the project, until opening day on April 11, 2024. This time it was a heavier climb, as the project team reconfigures the 100-level seating area near the field of a stick to stick
The new work includes the addition of three premium clubs close to home and improved armrests and cup holders throughout the stadium.
Structural demolition of the stadium’s lower bowl took place in October, according to PCL, which involved the removal and recycling of 29.5 million pounds of concrete and steel over 13 days. Excavations at pitch level followed to create space below ground for new player and premium club facilities, which involved removing 780 lorry loads of material and bringing in 530.
The contractor installed a temporary bridge over the site of the old seating bowl to help facilitate the excavation.
CPKC Stadium
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
Contractor: JE Dunn/Monarch Build
Cost: $117 million
When completed, CPKC Stadium will become the first venue built exclusively for a professional women’s sports team.
Courtesy of CNW Group/CPKC
The future home of the Kansas City Current, part of the National Women’s Soccer League, will become the first stadium built exclusively for women’s sportsaccording to the team.
The 117 million dollars CPKC Stadium is targeting a 2024 opening date season, which will begin this spring. Kansas City contractor JE Dunn and women-owned Overland Park, Kansas-based Monarch Build are building the project, along with a female-led team at Henderson Engineers of Lenexa, Kansas.
When the project team completes the stadium at the Berkley Riverfront Park job site, the stadium will have 11,500 seats in the general admission, club and suite levels, with all seats within 100 feet of the field.
Crypto.com Arena
Place: Los Angeles
Contractor: PCL Construction
Cost: Undisclosed
Renovations to Crypto.com Arena this summer will include new additions and improvements to suites and the main lobby.
Courtesy of AEG Worldwide
As the Clippers prepare to leave the venue they share with the Los Angeles Lakers, as well as the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings and the WNBA’s Sparks, Crypto.com Arena will also get a facelift.
PCL, the original builder of the premises in 1999, started in the summer of 2022 to update Crypto.com Arena every offseason since then. That year, the The contractor installed two new LED screens and ribbon boards for the upper and lower bowl seating areas, and the main concourse bar and grill was also redesigned and the President’s Club expanded, according to the stadium’s website.
Last summer, the contractor added Terrace Suites: premium seating with a close view of the action. PCL also renovated the surrounding area to create a large plaza connecting the arena and LA Live for a larger event lineup.
Finally, this summer will see further renovations and improvements to the main concourse, tunnel club level renovations and newly reimagined locker rooms for the Kings, Lakers and Sparks.
