Redskins President Stephen Baldacci said that the team
"will add approximately" 2,000 seats at FedEx Field next
season to "enable the Redskins to sell season tickets to a
number of people at the top of the club's waiting list,"
according to Mark Maske of the WASHINGTON POST. The team is
"planning at least" $10M worth of renovations to the three-
year-old stadium, including the new seats and four new
escalators running from the ground level top the upper deck.
Around 1,200 of the seats "will be added above the two
tunnels leading from the field to the locker rooms" and 740
seats "will be added in the ongoing expansion of the loge
level" (WASHINGTON POST, 1/3). The team "recently explored
the possibility" of building a roof over the field in hopes
of hosting a Super Bowl but "rejected the idea as too
costly." Redskins spokesperson Karl Swanson: "It's not
going to happen. It has been ruled out." Redskins Owner
Daniel Snyder had even "hired" architectural firm HOK+LOB to
submit computer-generated depictions of a domed stadium
along with a price list, which ranged as high as $70M for a
permanent roof (WASHINGTON POST, 12/28).
