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Buffalo Bills to get new stadium in Orchard Park

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Recently at the annual NFL league meetings, the Buffalo Bills owners Terry and Kim Pegula reached an agreement to build a new $1.4 billion stadium in Orchard Park, New York. The Bills currently play in Orchard Park’s Highmark Stadium, their home since 1973 and the fourth-oldest complex in the NFL. The state legislature has approved budgeting that will contribute $600 million to the project, as The Buffalo News reported. Under a new 30-year lease with New York State and Erie County for construction of the new stadium, the Bills will get a record $850 million from public taxpayers, with $250 million from Erie County, along with the $600 million in state funds. 

Approximately 2,000 construction jobs will be created as part of the stadium building, per the legislature, while some lawmakers believe the new complex will greatly benefit local businesses. Others, however, were not so easily sold on the big deal. 

Pegula Sports and Entertainment executive Ron Raccuia talked about the New Stadium project. 

“We’re going to build the best football stadium we possibly can for the Buffalo Bills and our fans. It will be state of the art and will have a great deal of modern amenities that we currently lack at Highmark Stadium,” Per buffalobills.com. 

 “We do, however, want to maintain the intimacy, great sightlines, and the amazing home-field advantage and energy we currently have at Highmark Stadium. It will be a football-specific stadium and we want to take advantage of all of the modern amenities, comfort, and technology available to us as we develop our plan with the architects.” 

He continued to talk about the size and capacity of the stadium. 

“Most every new stadium that’s been built, not just in football, but throughout all of sports has had reduced capacity. The reason for reduced capacity is to create a better in-venue experience. Bigger seats, larger concourses, more intimacy, as we discussed. All those things are critical for a new stadium and to do that, capacity does go down. The amenities that our fans have told us that they would like are more temperature-controlled spaces, more variety of food and beverage, more gathering spaces where they can congregate together. All of that translates to a bigger facility and a lower capacity in the number of seats. In terms of the exact breakdown of seating, we’re still working through that process.” 

The team is coming off two back-to-back playoffs appearances and has made some very interesting offseason moves. From Von Miller’s six-year contract to resigning Stefon Diggs to an extension, the team continues to look ahead towards the future.

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