The stadium would have seated 95,000 initially for the games, and would have been converted to a 10,000-seat below-ground arena for track-and-field and cultural events after the Olympics.
The design is modern and the floodlights rise high in all four corners of the ground; the arena would not look out of place in England, Germany or Belgium.
They assemble at communal display grounds (the arena or lek), where each bird occupies and defends a site during the day; occasionally, an "apprentice" male may be permitted to share an occupied site.
Part of that middle-ground consumer arena consists of thrifty parents and their kids making ready for another September.
Directors were told to lock up the Butts Park Arena ground, which is not owned by the club, with all staff sent home, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Joseph DePlasco, a spokesman for Forest City Ratner, said on Thursday that the company remained confident that it would break ground on the arena this fall.
The project's developer, Forest City Ratner, says it plans to break ground on the arena this fall and has long expected to use tax-exempt financing to reduce its borrowing costs by tens of millions of dollars.
He acknowledged that "the tax changes would make it more difficult" to do the project, although he was still optimistic that he could break ground for the arena this fall.
When the NRL bigwigs feel confident enough to announce that the second game of next year's State of Origin series will be played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground – a monstrous arena in the heart of Aussie Rules territory – then something is clearly going right.
It should come as no surprise that as Trump is losing ground in the arena of public opinion he blames the messenger.
