Stadium Tour

I had the pleasure of taking a tour of the stadium on Tuesday.

Here is the scoop as I understand:

As stated on the AYL interview, there will be more price points for tickets at RES (translated: a price increase for most of us). These have not yet been fully determined. They will have 3 premium seating options on the west side:

• Luxury Suites: there are 32 of these and they are all sold out. I don't remember the price point on these, other than they are way out of my price range.
• Center Circle: these are the seats directly surrounding the player tunnel on the west side. I believe that there are 98 of these seats.
• Club level seating: from what I remember, there are 3 price points for these seats and they will fan out on either side of Center Circle. I believe the cheapest option is around $1,250.

All of the premium seating options will have access to the patio area (see Suite Food!). They will have access to this area before, during and after the game. At least some, if not all of these seats, will have access to the 900 parking spots on the West side, and will have access to field level seats for concerts. The rest of the stadium's season ticket holders will have right of first refusal for their seats and possibly the ability to purchase extra tickets before the public. This is assuming that the event is an SCP promoted event.

Also, one other tidbit of info. They will be laying sod, and they will actually have to re-lay this about 3-4 times per year at a minimum.

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Suite Food!

Since I am a connoiseur of stadium food (okay mainly hot dogs and nachos), I snuck over to the shindig at the stadium offices. This was an announcement of Levy Restaurants as the concessions provider and luxury suite dining provider in the new stadium. Apparantly Levy provides food for many high profile events throughout the US, including a few legendary places like Wrigley, Lambeau and Staples (okay so the last one doesn't quite fit).

All of the food was good, but I concentrated on the hot dog since I most likely won't have access to any of the fancy schmancy (technical term) fixins in the suites. They had some gourmet items there including beef tenderloin, buffalo ribeye, and red trout sliders (pictures to follow).

There were many dignitaries in attendance, and of course I didn't know who most of them were. The mayor (Tom Dolan) was there. Dave Checketts, Dean Howes and one other SCP representative was there. They gave a brief press conference and there were lots of cameras - so look for it on the news. All of the coaches, and Garth Lagerway were there. And many of the players - Talley, Morales, Espindola, Mantilla, Joy, Beckerman, Williams, Rimando and Beltran.

The highlights for me: I met James Edward and we had a brief soccer related convo. I had seen him in practice once or twice, but it was great to chat with him. And I had a brief conversation with Ian Joy. I love that guy. He has the right attitude. He asked about this blog and said he'd check it out. He also said the team was VERY disappointed over the loss, and they all feel like there is no excuse for it. They are all committed to giving their effort every time on the pitch, and not having these kindof letdowns during the season. I get the sense that there is no B/S coming from this guy.

On the suite front, it sounds like there are 32 suites totally and they are essentially sold out. There are also "foundation partners" (I think that's the term), and it sounds like we have a growing list of those that are signed up. And there is a Center Circle program, which it sounds like is similar to the Jazz 100 club. Sounds like all is well on the stadium front.

Also, there might be an extra incentive to attend the coaches show tomorrow at the construction office. So if you have a chance swing buy and check it out.

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