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That area was going to revitalize anyways; with all the tech jobs, and a limited number of places to build new condos, with or without the stadium, SoMa (and later mission bay) was going to experience a construction boom.

Not an argument against AT&T park, which is probably the model of how you build a stadium, but I think it’s a heavy lift to ascribe the revival of SoMa and Mission Bay to it.

BC

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I'm with you yvonne on the 400 level.

Looks like the floor is stabilizing in the $120-150 range but I'm sure they will come down further in the hours before kickoff.

I'll be watching on TV.

$170 is the current lowest price, at 6:13 a.m. Day of Game.

Day of game is tomorrow.  Unless you are here from the future.

BC

Just got out of my modified DeLorean.  Cheapest tickets still $170 on stubhub as of 5:49.  Also, Alabama scores first.  Won't say any more, wouldn't  be prudent.

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Football stadiums are a rather inefficient use of real estate.  That same footprint can be used to become the home of a tech HQ, or a hospital, or any number of other ventures that brings in thousands of job opportunities, new housing and property tax revenue.

That's why the Boston, New York, Washington DC, and soon LA teams play outside of their own town.   If your town's football team opts to play outside of the actual town then your town is probably doing OK.   Think of it as a compliment.

Detroit, where I live and work, has over 100,000 unoccupied residences as residents have been fleeing the city since 1974, when peak population was 2.4 million people.  Today, it is 678,000.  Ergo, real estate is dirt cheap...so to speak.

Which means that Detroit is proud that it is the ONLY city in the United States in which all four major sports teams not only play within city limits, but downtown.  Ford Field and Comerica Park are essentially across the street from each other, and the Red Wings and Pistons both play at the Gymnasium Named For the World's Worst Pizza.

Incidentally, I watched the Warriors play the Pistons last year.  And by paying absolutely no attention to the seating chart, I bought tickets in literally the top row of the place.  Can't tell you much about the game, but I can tell you which players were going bald.

I, for one, am a brobdingnagian fan of the urban stadium.  It just has so much more character then a stadium surrounded by office parks.  Where I am, in Pittsburgh, the football and baseball stadiums have great views of downtown and make for a much better gameday experience then driving out to suburbia.  Hell 90% of the reason to go to a Pirates game is to sit in the upper deck and enjoy great views in the sunshine while drinking beer and watching mediocre baseball. AT&T is similar, now that (unfortunately) the Giants have joined the ranks of the mediocre.

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That area was going to revitalize anyways; with all the tech jobs, and a limited number of places to build new condos, with or without the stadium, SoMa (and later mission bay) was going to experience a construction boom.

Not an argument against AT&T park, which is probably the model of how you build a stadium, but I think it’s a heavy lift to ascribe the revival of SoMa and Mission Bay to it.

BC

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I'm with you yvonne on the 400 level.

Looks like the floor is stabilizing in the $120-150 range but I'm sure they will come down further in the hours before kickoff.

I'll be watching on TV.

$170 is the current lowest price, at 6:13 a.m. Day of Game.

Day of game is tomorrow.  Unless you are here from the future.

BC

Just got out of my modified DeLorean.  Cheapest tickets still $170 on stubhub as of 5:49.  Also, Alabama scores first.  Won't say any more, wouldn't  be prudent.

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Football stadiums are a rather inefficient use of real estate.  That same footprint can be used to become the home of a tech HQ, or a hospital, or any number of other ventures that brings in thousands of job opportunities, new housing and property tax revenue.

That's why the Boston, New York, Washington DC, and soon LA teams play outside of their own town.   If your town's football team opts to play outside of the actual town then your town is probably doing OK.   Think of it as a compliment.

Detroit, where I live and work, has over 100,000 unoccupied residences as residents have been fleeing the city since 1974, when peak population was 2.4 million people.  Today, it is 678,000.  Ergo, real estate is dirt cheap...so to speak.

Which means that Detroit is proud that it is the ONLY city in the United States in which all four major sports teams not only play within city limits, but downtown.  Ford Field and Comerica Park are essentially across the street from each other, and the Red Wings and Pistons both play at the Gymnasium Named For the World's Worst Pizza.

Incidentally, I watched the Warriors play the Pistons last year.  And by paying absolutely no attention to the seating chart, I bought tickets in literally the top row of the place.  Can't tell you much about the game, but I can tell you which players were going bald.

I, for one, am a brobdingnagian fan of the urban stadium.  It just has so much more character then a stadium surrounded by office parks.  Where I am, in Pittsburgh, the football and baseball stadiums have great views of downtown and make for a much better gameday experience then driving out to suburbia.  Hell 90% of the reason to go to a Pirates game is to sit in the upper deck and enjoy great views in the sunshine while drinking beer and watching mediocre baseball. AT&T is similar, now that (unfortunately) the Giants have joined the ranks of the mediocre.