PANSTADIA & ARENA MANAGEMENT WINTER 2013/14 Levi’s® Stadium
After nearly 17 years of starts and stops, the $1.3 billion stadium will open next August for the NFL San Francisco 49ers. Steve Traiman gets insight on the game plan from the team, architect and contractors.
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Aerial view, Suite
Tower in foreground. All images courtesy: HNTB
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he new Levi’s® Stadium had its origins in mid-1997 when San
Francisco approved proposals for a stadium and mall at Candlestick Point, the 49ers’ current home. The team hired Devcon Construction in Milpitas, CA, for preconstruction services. The project was put on hold in 1998, and Devcon continued to assist with cost estimates and other services. It came up again in 2001, but 9/11 ended that effort.
In early 2006 the Santa Clara Stadium Authority named the 49ers’ Stadium Development Co. (StadCo) as its agent. StadCo is leasing the facility under a long-term agreement, with major fi nancing from a group of banks led by Goldman Sachs.
StadCo issued two requests for proposals, one for an architect and one for preconstruction services, with Devcon listed as a partner. Turner
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Construction was selected as the national contractor, and HNTB as the architect. The Turner-Devcon joint venture $854 million design/build contract is with the Stadium Authority. When the project started in 2006, the stadium was planned for the parking lot adjacent to Candlestick. In 2008, the site shifted to Santa Clara, about 35 miles south of San Francisco, and a modest stadium redesign was completed. Construction went into high gear in September 2011, when it was decided to move the timetable up a year to open for the 2014 NFL season.
As a multi-use facility, the 68,900-seat stadium – expandable to 75,000 for a Super Bowl or FIFA World Cup – can be confi gured for special touring events including concerts, motocross and other community events. The stadium is also designed to meet FIFA fi eld geometry requirements for international soccer.
Early November aerial view of tight 16-acre site. Image: Turner-Devcon
It will also feature over 109,000ft2 (10,100m2
space in the club areas.
This past May, the 49ers announced that San Francisco-based Levi Strauss & Co. had purchased naming rights. The deal calls for Levi’s® to pay $220.3 million to the city of Santa Clara and the 49ers over 20 years, with an option to extend the deal for another fi ve years for around $75 million.
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