"Almost one in four #stadiums in the top four divisions of English football will experience total or partial #flooding within the next quarter of a century.
The 2023-24 #football season in the #UK has already been hit by 10 named storms including Babet.
It's not just rising sea levels that pose a problem: heatwaves, drought, fires and air pollution are all set to disrupt a multitude of sports in the coming decades."
The future of the Royals and Chiefs in Kansas City was thrown into question Tuesday when residents of Jackson County voted down a sales tax measure that would have helped to fund a new downtown ballpark along with major renovations to Arrowhead Stadium.
The saga of Waverley Park — Melbourne's car-dependent suburban AFL stadium with a planned seated capacity of over 150,000 (not a typo!)
A really good run down by @philip on the plans by the AFL (and its predecessor, the VFL) to build the world's largest stadium in outer-suburban Melbourne.
Unfortunately, a planned railway line past the stadium to Rowville was never built. That meant a massive 25,000-spot car park as the only real means to get there.
While most of it has been demolished and redeveloped for housing, the oval itself still used by Hawthorn Football Club as a training and administration centre.
Anyone want to guess, the costs to host a meeting, for a group of 16, that collectively earn $25,600,000 a year? (Plus unk staffers salaries)
Weekends = 104 days + 14 public holidays
They have been working on the same problem for approximately 1000 hours to resolve just one problem? And they cannot find a solution. #HOMELESSNESS
3 Years- NADA #FastTrack - HOLD MEETINGS OUTSIDE?
Most #stadiums are somewhere between burdens and disasters for their communities. They soak up subsidies, overwhelm neighborhoods, increase traffic and parking … and are ugly to boot. So it’s worth celebrating the exception, which is Oracle Park in S.F. It is a benefit to its neighborhood, was built without subsidies … and recently was named as one of the city’s “architecture icons.” Why not expect this of all stadiums? https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2023/san-francisco-iconic-buildings/#MLB#NBA#NFL
@knizer@thomasconnor#NWSL has grown a bit since the #Breakers were around. Playing in high school #stadiums is pretty gauche by current standards. Over half the league's teams play in the same stadiums as their town's #MLS teams do.
So this White Stadium reno project will have to result in one real bang-up doozy of a high school stadium.
A respected city watcher puzzles over the impact of #stadiums on cities. Why are most a huge waste of land and gov’t subsidies … but a few actually improve things? Is it the sport? The location? Actually, there are three things that can redeem stadiums. One is a connection to transit, which reduces the blight of parking. Two is the number of games played there. (More is better.) Three is how well integrated it is into its surroundings, the result of good planning. https://www.governing.com/assessments/the-tricky-business-of-making-stadiums-pay-off
[Article] Voters reject stadium tax for Royals and Chiefs (www.espn.com)
The future of the Royals and Chiefs in Kansas City was thrown into question Tuesday when residents of Jackson County voted down a sales tax measure that would have helped to fund a new downtown ballpark along with major renovations to Arrowhead Stadium.