SANTA CLARA - Levi's Stadium (68,028)

[will101]

Originally Posted by blacktrojan3921

Many congratulations to the Bay area for finally getting themselves a brand new spanking stadium for your beloved 49ers =3

Thanks. This is going to be fun.

[will101]

Matt Maiocco
csnbayarea.com

The construction of the 49ers' Santa Clara stadium will turn up a notch on Monday, just as the football team begins a new phase of its offseason program.

Forty-eight cement trucks from Central Concrete Supply Company will line up at 11 a.m. to deliver 12-yard loads of fluid grout every 10 to 15 minutes as 3,000-plus anchors or piles will be drilled to support the stadium and ensure a deep, secure foundation, according to the 49ers.

Five powerful, high-torque drilling rigs and 50 workers from Berkel and Company Contractors will be drilling on average 55 feet below the ground for 25 days to complete the project. It takes about 25 minutes to install each pile, and 120 will be installed each day.

Laid end to end, the 3,000-plus piles would stretch over 31 miles, almost exactly the direct distance from Candlestick Park to the new stadium, the team said. The club said there will be 25,000 cubic feet of concrete (actually, fluid grout). The fluid grout is environmentally friendly, the club emphasized, and uses less CO2 than traditional concrete.

There are currently 250 workers on site. In addition to drilling the piles, the workers have been installing 30 miles of underground utilities, cabling and pipes. Ground-breaking on the stadium was April 19, and the 68,500-seat stadium is scheduled to open for the 2014 season.

The entire article is here:
http://www.csnbayarea.com/football-s...80&feedID=2539

[will101]

The Mizuno cleats Joe Montana wore when he threaded a 10-yard touchdown pass to John Taylor in Super Bowl XXIII currently reside in an office in San Jose.

The 49ers' helmet car that transported injured players off the field is hanging out in the bowels of Candlestick Park along with sideline benches, a covered wagon and scoreboards.

Old 49ers' contracts, plaques, programs, lineup cards and rows of alphabetized filing cabinets stuffed with players' pictures ("Nehemiah-T. Owens" reads the label on one cabinet) are stored in a nondescript building behind a strip mall in Santa Clara.

Various pieces of the 49ers' storied past are scattered throughout the Bay Area, but plans are under way to bring much of it together. The 49ers' new stadium in Santa Clara is set to become the team's home in 2014, and adjacent to the stadium will be a home for the franchise's history: the 49ers Hall of Fame.

The team has hired Cambridge Seven Associates Inc. and Cortina Productions to head the hall project, and those companies have assembled focus groups to help determine what will occupy the proposed 15,000-square-foot building.

By June, the companies will have met with journalists, season-ticket holders, students, teachers and figures from the 49ers' past such as Montana, Roger Craig, Dwight Clark, Bob St. Clair and George Seifert to help establish a concise vision.

Cambridge Seven Associates has designed a similarly sized hall of fame for the New England Patriots that opened in 2006 and attracts about 120,000 visitors a year. Other Cambridge projects include the Basketball Hall of Fame, the Babe Ruth Museum and halls of fame for the Orioles, Colts and Boston Bruins.

The entire article is here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...K90F.DTL&tsp=1

[Basincreek]

Well I can see that they have four pile drivers out there working like crazy on the webcam.

They appear to already have a few retaining walls completed on the south side. Also most of the utilities appear to be in the ground.

[Basincreek]

Somebody needs to get down there and get some pics for us.

[will101]

Originally Posted by Basincreek

Somebody needs to get down there and get some pics for us.

There's really nothing to see right now. But the webcam link on the team site has three angles, and they run 24/7.

http://newsantaclarastadium.com/live-view

Avoid the view from the Hyatt in the morning. Likewise, avoid the team HQ cam in the late afternoon. The Great America cam is panoramic, but lacking in detail.

[will101]

The team now has a nice 3-D viewer on the site, with ticket pricing, if you go here:

http://seats3d.com/nfl/49ers_new_stadium/#/level_4/

Among other tidbits, we now know that the stadium will have exactly 166 luxury suites, and not all of them will be in the tower. I'm going to post some pix, as soon as I can figure out how to do that on this forum.

[eMKay]

Originally Posted by will101

The team now has a nice 3-D viewer on the site, with ticket pricing, if you go here:

http://seats3d.com/nfl/49ers_new_stadium/#/level_4/

Among other tidbits, we now know that the stadium will have exactly 166 luxury suites, and not all of them will be in the tower. I'm going to post some pix, as soon as I can figure out how to do that on this forum.

looks like they have some along the top of the 2nd level, also looks like every eat has a PSL, lame.

[will101]

Originally Posted by eMKay

looks like they have some along the top of the 2nd level, also looks like every eat has a PSL, lame.

Why is that lame? When you have to pay for the stadium yourself, the money has to come from somewhere.

[Basincreek]

looks like they are done piling. There is one very large crane on site.

[krudmonk]

Originally Posted by will101

Why is that lame? When you have to pay for the stadium yourself, the money has to come from somewhere.

Do you ever stop shilling for that organization? PSLs are a shitty way to treat fans that are already paying for expensive tickets on top.

[will101]

Originally Posted by Basincreek

looks like they are done piling. There is one very large crane on site.

I'd be surprised if they were done already. I'm no engineer, but I do know that ground is fairly soft alluvium, and my guess is the stadium will probably need more than 200 pilings. If we assume that each piling has to go down 50 feet, and there are 200 of them, can they do that in two months?

Update: I just looked at the 'Great America' view, and the pile driver is still there, over near the old intersection of Tasman and Centennial. I bet the green crane that we can see from the 'HQ view' is probably setting up the first concrete support form. AFAIK there is no rule against building on completed pilings, even if you are still adding new ones elsewhere.

[will101]

By: Joshua Sabatini | 06/05/12 9:33 PM
SF Examiner Staff Writer

The 49ers were granted permission Tuesday to break their Candlestick Park lease to move into their new Santa Clara stadium in time for the 2014 football season, in a unanimous vote by the Board of Supervisors.

While losing the team is a blow for The City, board President David Chiu introduced legislation with Mayor Ed Lee authorizing San Francisco to enter into negotiations with the Warriors franchise to move here.

City officials and the Warriors recently announced that the team is trying to build an arena at Piers 30-32 for the 2017-18 basketball season. Golden State plays in Oakland.

Supervisor Mark Farrell said the 49ers lease change, which allows the team to leave one year earlier, protects The City financially while preserving its relationship with the franchise.

“I think, most importantly, San Francisco is going to partner with the 49ers to be the lead city in a Super Bowl bid, which is going to bring hundreds of millions of dollars of economic activity here to San Francisco,” Farrell said.

The lease deal includes payment of $1 million to the Recreation and Park Department, plus the $4.295 million the department would have received for the 2014 season if the 49ers stayed.

Allowing them to leave for a mere $5.295 million. How magnanimous of the city.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2012...dlestick-lease

[KingmanIII]

sounds like the only loser in all this is gonna be Oakland

[bd popeye]

Typical meat-headed California political decision. I know..I lived in San Diego for 26 years..More than likely this stupidity will not effect the stadium construction.

County suddenly yanks $30 million in tax funds from San Francisco 49ers stadium - San Jose Mercury News

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) A California county has surprised both the San Francisco 49ers and city of Santa Clara leaders by pulling $30 million in tax funds from the new 49ers stadium.

Santa Clara County officials told the Mercury News (http://bit.ly/OaqIBz ) Saturday that they would rather spend the money on teachers.

The team and the city said voters had specifically earmarked redevelopment money to help build the $1.2 billion stadium and that the county has no right to keep it.

The 49ers and Santa Clara officials will craft an official response this week. Lawsuits are likely, according to the newspaper.

The revocation occurred Friday by a new board that oversees property tax from redevelopment zones.

''Let's be real: That stadium is going to get built whether or not you get this $30 million,'' county tax collector George Putris, the oversight board member who proposed the motion, told a 49ers attorney at the meeting. He said the need was greater at other public agencies, such as school districts. The motion passed 4-3.

The move was so unexpected that Santa Clara leaders claim it was done in violation of public notice laws.

Santa Clara voters approved a 2010 measure that allocated $40 million in redevelopment funds for the stadium, which is set to open in 2014.

The state later did away with redevelopment agencies, and Santa Clara's redevelopment fund had only paid $10 million toward the stadium. So the 49ers loaned Santa Clara leaders the remaining $30 million and started construction, thinking they'd be paid back from future property tax revenues.

A 49ers spokesman declined to comment when asked whether the decision could affect stadium construction, which began in April. Officials have said the team would simply absorb the cost if it loses the funds, which amount to less than three percent of the stadium's total price tag.

[krudmonk]

Oh no, the government is giving less money to a private company! Call O'Reilly!

[Basincreek]

Originally Posted by will101

I'd be surprised if they were done already. I'm no engineer, but I do know that ground is fairly soft alluvium, and my guess is the stadium will probably need more than 200 pilings. If we assume that each piling has to go down 50 feet, and there are 200 of them, can they do that in two months?

Update: I just looked at the 'Great America' view, and the pile driver is still there, over near the old intersection of Tasman and Centennial. I bet the green crane that we can see from the 'HQ view' is probably setting up the first concrete support form. AFAIK there is no rule against building on completed pilings, even if you are still adding new ones elsewhere.

They had four machines and only one is left. I was watching them work and it seemed like each machine was knocking out piles at around three an hour. So I can believe they are pretty much done. And as of today it looks like they have transitioned to digging up piles for the superstructure.

[Benn]

So $85 a ticket plus a $2,000 psl per seat to sit 69-95 rows back in the corner?
Makes the cowboys pricing scheme seem suspiciously reasonable. I just sure hope we don't see any of these sort of numbers in 2016 for the Vikings, I'd have to figure out how to be a Gophers football fan. $2,000 minimum license per seat for right to buy season tickets, and a $5,000 per seat minimum to be anywhere remotely near the field, I know theres some money in the Bay area but thats some ol' bullshit. They might cover half a billion on seat licenses, add in naming rights, suite and parking revenues and they could be turning a profit just by building the damn thing.

[Knitemplar]

Originally Posted by bd popeye

Typical meat-headed California political decision. I know..I lived in San Diego for 26 years..More than likely this stupidity will not effect the stadium construction.

County suddenly yanks $30 million in tax funds from San Francisco 49ers stadium - San Jose Mercury News

Good for Santa Clara County. Y should they help those millionaires (both owners & players) get any richer? At least someone's got their priorities right.

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[will101]

Originally Posted by bd popeye

Typical meat-headed California political decision. I know..I lived in San Diego for 26 years..More than likely this stupidity will not effect the stadium construction.

County suddenly yanks $30 million in tax funds from San Francisco 49ers stadium - San Jose Mercury News

Fascinating. This has just upped the ante, and not by the $30 million in question. The Brown Act (California's open meeting and open agenda law, and having nothing to do with the current governor) is regarded as just as sacred to many here as the Bill of Rights. And politicos have actually suffered criminal penalties for severe violations. Between the clearly illegal lack of public notice, and the violation of the constitutional prohibition of ex post facto laws, I could see this in court well after the $30 million is long gone. This could end a few careers, and maybe have some politicos looking out from behind bars.