SAN FRANCISCO-Mayor Edwin M. Lee just recently celebrated the successful bid to host Super Bowl 50 in 2016 in the San Francisco Bay Area in partnership with the San Francisco 49ers and the Super Bowl Bid Committee. The 2016 Super Bowl game will be held at the new Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara and will bring hundreds of millions of dollars in economic impact to the entire Bay Area, according to Mayor Lee.
The bid was delivered to the National Football League by Tipping Point CEO and Founder Daniel Lurie and San Francisco 49ers Owner Jed York in a live pitch to 32 NFL owners in Boston.
“Hosting a Super Bowl in the Bay Area will bring an enormous economic boost to our entire region and leave a lasting legacy,” says Mayor Lee. “I join the San Francisco 49ers, Santa Clara Mayor Matthews and San Jose Mayor Reed, and our entire region, in celebrating this win for the San Francisco Bay Area.”
The bid committee has raised $30 million in pledges from partners including Apple, Boston Consulting Group, Dignity Health, Gap, Google, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Yahoo!, Seagate, and ValueAct Capital. The committee will continue development efforts to exceed fundraising goals for Super Bowl 50 where 25% of which is dedicated to philanthropic legacy projects to help children and families living in poverty in the Bay Area. A separately-governed nonprofit body will be established to administer this first-of-its-kind effort.
The Super Bowl bid includes more than 22,000 hotel rooms set aside for the event, along with official and unofficial events to be hosted throughout the Bay Area region. A key part of the bid is the new Levi's Stadium, which will be solar-powered and will include high-speed WiFi for 75,000 fans and sustainable design materials, such as a green roof.
As GlobeSt.com previously reported, the $1.2-billion Santa Clara Stadium will have the flexibility to host domestic and international soccer, college football, motocross, concerts, various civic events, and can be expanded for major events such as the Super Bowl. Santa Clara Stadium will be the first professional football stadium to open with LEED certification, the recognized standard for measuring building sustainability.
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