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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For the record, N.E. Patriots paid for their stadium and continue to pay all upgrade costs. They just finished an expensive upgrade.

There also is a train stop on the property. Even though it is a commuter line, it's not busy. The hours kinda suck. But, better than nothing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Their original stadium (Foxboro) cost an incredibly-low $7 million to build circa 1970. Rather than building a bowl-like structure fully above ground like conventional stadiums, they instead dug a stadium-shaped hole in the ground and filled it with seats - a really practical way to do something like this, as long as you don't mind the flooding.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I remember it well. Shoveled snow out of the stands with FHS groups for $$.

Then Kraft built Gillette for $325 million. Just spent millions more on upgrades.