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Raiders Highlight Design Features Planned For New Las Vegas Stadium

A below-ground bowl will allow about half of the fans to go down to their seats and the other half upRAIDERS

The new Raiders stadium in Las Vegas "will have nine clubs" and three at "field level, including two on opposite sides of the field at the 50-yard line," according to Richard Velotta of the LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL. Players will pass through one of them and will be "cheered by the team's fans" before games. Raiders President Marc Badain and Las Vegas Stadium Co. COO Don Webb described many of the "features of the building under construction" to the Las Vegas Stadium Authority on Thursday before the body "unanimously approved nearly two dozen agreements and resolutions related to authorizing the financing of a portion" of the $1.8B venue. Badain said that his "favorite feature will be the north-facing folding lanai doors." He said, "I like the opening doors. I like having some form of an outdoor venue and I think that accomplishes that here. We obviously need to be enclosed because of the climate, but having those doors and seeing what some other teams have done around the league to get an open-air feature, we were able to take the best of those ideas and then appropriate them, especially with that view [of the Las Vegas Strip]." Velotta notes additional features include a ceiling that will "let in natural light," which can be "restricted with a pattern of embedded materials that can keep the heat down." The ceiling will "rest 220 feet above the floor, which will be sunk 20 feet below ground level." The below-ground bowl will "allow about half of the fans at an event to go down and the other half up to their seats, reducing congestion." Also, translucent stadium components will make the venue "appear black during the day, but lights inside the stadium will be visible from outside at night." The clubs areas "will have 8,000 seats at premium prices" (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, 3/23).

MULTI-FUNCTIONAL USE: In Las Vegas, Mick Akers notes a total of 40% of the stadium’s seating "will be in the lower bowl," though the capacity "varies with events." For a "typical NFL game, the capacity will be 62,500, with additional standing-room-only areas making up the rest of the 65,000 number floated around." For MLS games, the capacity "will be 60,000, while for concerts it's between 50,000 and 72,000." The stadium "could host a Super Bowl, with a capacity of 70,000" (LAS VEGAS SUN, 3/23).

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