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New Plans For Renovation Of Bernabéu To Reduce Stadium's Occupancy

Real Madrid President Florentino Pérez has held three meetings with the Madrid City Council "in order to salvage his plans" for the New Bernabéu Stadium, the remodeling of which was "halted by the courts," according to J.L. Guerrero of AS. The club’s members "approved a motion to cover the stadium" in '12 -- Pérez had been promising a retractable roof since '04 -- because it was sold to them "on the basis of increasing the stadium’s occupancy by 5,000 seats." Pérez is "now planning on presenting a new proposal to the City Council before the summer." The reconstruction, which is budgeted at €400M ($448M), would "still include the same exterior design but at the cost of 2,500 seats." In addition, the hotel "would only contain 60 rooms instead of the 150 initially proposed," shrinking from 12,500 square meters to 6,500, and "would instead be located on the east side of the stadium" (AS, 3/28).

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