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Bills President Says Team Taking Deliberate Route To Discussing Possible Stadium

The Bills are "going to continue to take their sweet time when it comes to addressing when, where, or even whether they’ll build a new stadium," according to Vic Carucci of the BUFFALO NEWS. Bills President Russ Brandon said of the New Stadium Working Group, which was formed two years ago, "We have not met since April (2014). ... We’re going to take a very slow, quantitative, objective view on what makes sense.” Brandon also stressed that the Bills "fully intend to work closely" with politicians. Brandon: "At the appropriate time, we'll sit down and talk about what we need to look at." Carucci notes a new venue would have "significantly fewer seats" than Ralph Wilson Stadium, whose capacity is 71,850, and "prices for tickets, club seats and luxury suites would dramatically increase." Brandon: "We have made the model work on the Bills side, based on how we have built the business from a volume standpoint. So you have a lot of tickets in the building, general-admission seats in the building, 6,800 club seats, a lot of suites and price points have been fairly manageable, amongst the lowest in the league. As we go through market-condition studies and different things that you do when you look at things, like we've done previously with renovations, and as you update that information, you have to look and see what makes sense. The key is to realize that we are not LA. We are not Atlanta. We’re not Minneapolis. People say, ‘Oh, we’re very similar to Minneapolis.’ They have 28 Fortune 500 companies in that community. We have zero. We have to be a regional operation. We know that. That’s proven" (BUFFALO NEWS, 6/28). 

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