But Red Barber gazed upon the absence of humanity in the old, pre-renovation stadium and told his radio listeners, according to his recollection in one of his books: "I don't know what the paid attendance is today — but whatever it is, it is the smallest crowd in the history of Yankee Stadium".
Despite some recent renovation, the stadium has a 1950s Soviet feel, shades of Dynamo Kyiv's much-fetishised former home, with its excitingly futurist concrete lines.
In terms of public address pollution, it sure is a lot louder than in 1976 when, after a two-year renovation, the Stadium was hailed as a modernized monument to itself.
Financing secured for $580million renovation of stadium and nearby area.
Without the renovations, Giants Stadium would not be eligible to make presentations to owners in October at a meeting in Chicago along with Arizona, Washington and Tampa Bay (if Miami is chosen to be host to the 2007 game).
The corruption scandal has toppled a senator, disrupted renovation of stadiums for the World Cup and prompted the resignations of judges and prosecutors who said they were threatened and obstructed by police.
"Due to the forward-looking nature of these renovations, the stadium requires minimal annual capital expenditures and little to no deferred maintenance costs," the Dodgers said in a statement.
"When we began this work the task force was unanimous that the best way to proceed was in the renovation of Memorial Stadium, and we rejected all thought of a new stadium," said Henry Butta, chairman of the task force.
And the 1997 student fee, the one created to pay off the 1992 football stadium renovation, was now going to help pay for this new renovation.
$321 MILLION The estimated cost of the stadium renovation at the University of California, Berkeley.
This paper presents a case history of Olympic Stadium renovation in Helsinki, Finland with a focus on blasting near the Olympic Stadium Tower.
