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$200M Soccer Stadium Moves Ahead

HARRISON, NJ-After a number of stops and starts, the 25,000-seat, renamed Red Bull Arena is finally moving forward with vertical construction.

By Eric Peterson | Updated on August 20, 2008

HARRISON, NJ-It’s to be a centerpiece for this city’s major redevelopment, but for all of the starts and stops, some wondered if the new 25,189-seat stadium for the Red Bulls franchise of Major League Soccer would ever get done. Now, it will apparently happen with the start of vertical construction for the $200-million facility.

“It’s something tangible that people can see,” says Red Bull New York managing director Erik Stover. “If they’re driving by on I-280 or riding on the PATH train, they can see it coming out of the ground. Up to now, it just looks like a dirt field.”

Its genesis goes back nearly a decade, when the Red Bulls were known as the MetroStars. The team continues to play its home games at Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands, but their average crowd of 20-25,000 rattles around in that 76,000-seat venue, and the team, which became known as the Red Bulls a couple of years ago, has long been in search of a more intimate venue. That venue is now slated for completion by September 2009.

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