2008 will see the debute of Nationals Park, home of the Washington Nationals.
2008 will also be the final season for both New York team stadiums. Yankee Stadium, home of the New York Yankees from 1923-2008, will be replaced by a brand new Yankee Stadium in 2009. The old Yankee Stadium was closed in 1974 and 1975 for massive rennovations and reopened in 1976. It will be torn down following the 2008 season.
Shea Stadium, home of the New York Mets from 1967-2008, will be replaced by Citi Field in 2009. Shea will be torn down following the 2008 season.
2008 new/old MLB stadiums
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A new stadium for the Yankees is currently under construction on part of the former site of Macombs Dam Park. The new stadium's design will incorporate the design of Yankee Stadium from its original 1923 exterior as well as from the 1970s renovation. As for the current stadium, The above-ground portion will be completely demolished, with the existing clubhouses, which are underground, remaining in use for replacement park facilities. Three baseball fields will be built atop the Yankee Stadium field after the Yankees' new stadium opens. These new recreation facilities were designed to alleviate the loss of parkland to the Yankees' new stadium. Monument Park will be relocated in the new stadium.
Before building their $1.3 billion stadium, the Yankees secured $425 million in public subsidies and permission to tear down 400 trees and take over 22 acres of public parkland north of the team's East 161st Street home; New York City retains ownership of the Yankees' new tract of land. The public costs include acquiring land for the stadium, building parking garages, tearing down Yankee Stadium, lost rent and parking revenue from Yankee Stadium, and tax breaks. It does not include a $91 million Metro-North station, which will be paid for entirely by the public (with money shifted from other parts of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's capital-spending budget). Of the stadium's remaining cost, up to 40 percent may be subsidized through reduced revenue-sharing contributions. The Yankees' $200 million payroll is consistently the highest in baseball, making them the largest contributor to the league's revenue-sharing pool. It has been estimated that the Yankees will contribute one-third of their new stadium's cost.
The Yankees' stadium and free-parkland acquisition were proposed in June 2005 without input from the community but with preapproval from pertinent legislative bodies. The plan was approved within days of its announcement, setting underfunded community groups and parks advocates back from the beginning. Even as fierce opposition mounted, they were left with no room to maneuver to save the neighborhood's parkland. One year after the Yankees' new-stadium news conference, the team cleared all legislative, financial, procedural, and legal hurdles. Construction began in the summer of 2006. The Yankees expect to begin the 2009 season in their new stadium.
As part of Yankee Stadium's last trip around the block, it will host the 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, with the final regular season game scheduled to be played September 21, 2008 against the Baltimore Orioles. The matchup is considered symbolic, as the Yankees came from Baltimore, Maryland in 1903, and the current Orioles are desendents of the St. Louis Browns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Stadium
Before building their $1.3 billion stadium, the Yankees secured $425 million in public subsidies and permission to tear down 400 trees and take over 22 acres of public parkland north of the team's East 161st Street home; New York City retains ownership of the Yankees' new tract of land. The public costs include acquiring land for the stadium, building parking garages, tearing down Yankee Stadium, lost rent and parking revenue from Yankee Stadium, and tax breaks. It does not include a $91 million Metro-North station, which will be paid for entirely by the public (with money shifted from other parts of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's capital-spending budget). Of the stadium's remaining cost, up to 40 percent may be subsidized through reduced revenue-sharing contributions. The Yankees' $200 million payroll is consistently the highest in baseball, making them the largest contributor to the league's revenue-sharing pool. It has been estimated that the Yankees will contribute one-third of their new stadium's cost.
The Yankees' stadium and free-parkland acquisition were proposed in June 2005 without input from the community but with preapproval from pertinent legislative bodies. The plan was approved within days of its announcement, setting underfunded community groups and parks advocates back from the beginning. Even as fierce opposition mounted, they were left with no room to maneuver to save the neighborhood's parkland. One year after the Yankees' new-stadium news conference, the team cleared all legislative, financial, procedural, and legal hurdles. Construction began in the summer of 2006. The Yankees expect to begin the 2009 season in their new stadium.
As part of Yankee Stadium's last trip around the block, it will host the 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, with the final regular season game scheduled to be played September 21, 2008 against the Baltimore Orioles. The matchup is considered symbolic, as the Yankees came from Baltimore, Maryland in 1903, and the current Orioles are desendents of the St. Louis Browns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Stadium
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Plans for new Mets ballpark
The original plans for what will now be Citi Field were created as part of the New York City 2012 Olympic bid. After plans for a West Side Stadium fell through, New York looked for an alternate stadium to host the opening and closing ceremonies. The Olympic stadium project was estimated to cost $2.2 billion with $180 million provided by New York City and New York State. If New York had won the bid, the stadium would have been expanded to host the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as other sporting events, and the Mets would have played their baseball season at New Yankee Stadium. Citi Field will be built despite New York's loss of the Games to London's bid. The location of the stadium was slightly altered and it can no longer be expanded into an Olympic stadium should New York win a future bid.
The new stadium is planned to have a capacity of 45,000 (~ 41,000 seats, ~ 4,000 standing room) and have an exterior facade reminiscent of Ebbets Field (a feature also at Coors Field and Safeco Field, which was long sought by Mets owner Fred Wilpon, a Brooklyn native) with an interior that many have stated evokes design features of recent ballparks, most notably Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore. The projected cost of the new stadium and other infrastructure improvements is $610 million, with the Mets picking up $420 million of that amount. The agreement includes a 40-year lease that will keep the Mets in New York until 2049. The stadium will be accessible via the Long Island Rail Road (Shea Stadium station) and the New York City Subway 7 train (Willets Point-Shea Stadium station), as the current facility is. On March 18, 2006, the New York Mets unveiled the official model for the new stadium. By July 2006, initial construction of the new park was underway in the parking lot beyond left-field, with a hopeful finish in time for Opening Day 2009 in late March of that year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citi_Field
The original plans for what will now be Citi Field were created as part of the New York City 2012 Olympic bid. After plans for a West Side Stadium fell through, New York looked for an alternate stadium to host the opening and closing ceremonies. The Olympic stadium project was estimated to cost $2.2 billion with $180 million provided by New York City and New York State. If New York had won the bid, the stadium would have been expanded to host the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as other sporting events, and the Mets would have played their baseball season at New Yankee Stadium. Citi Field will be built despite New York's loss of the Games to London's bid. The location of the stadium was slightly altered and it can no longer be expanded into an Olympic stadium should New York win a future bid.
The new stadium is planned to have a capacity of 45,000 (~ 41,000 seats, ~ 4,000 standing room) and have an exterior facade reminiscent of Ebbets Field (a feature also at Coors Field and Safeco Field, which was long sought by Mets owner Fred Wilpon, a Brooklyn native) with an interior that many have stated evokes design features of recent ballparks, most notably Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore. The projected cost of the new stadium and other infrastructure improvements is $610 million, with the Mets picking up $420 million of that amount. The agreement includes a 40-year lease that will keep the Mets in New York until 2049. The stadium will be accessible via the Long Island Rail Road (Shea Stadium station) and the New York City Subway 7 train (Willets Point-Shea Stadium station), as the current facility is. On March 18, 2006, the New York Mets unveiled the official model for the new stadium. By July 2006, initial construction of the new park was underway in the parking lot beyond left-field, with a hopeful finish in time for Opening Day 2009 in late March of that year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citi_Field