Thursday, January 21, 2010

New Meadowlands Stadium right across the street

Visiting the New Meadowlands Stadium?? Why not stay right across the street!?Visit our website for rates and availability www.sheraton.com/meadowlands See below for more information on the New Stadium!By RICHARD SANDOMIRNew York TimesPublished: September 5, 2007 The new stadium the Jets and the Giants are scheduled to occupy in 2010 will be distinguished by an outer skin of aluminum louvers and by interior lighting that will switch colors depending on which team is playing at home. Click Here to Get Your Personalized Scoreboard The changing colors green for the Jets, blue for the Giants reflect each teams desire to individualize the look of the 82,500-seat stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The teams current home, Giants Stadium, opened in 1976, but the Jets have long felt like a second-class tenant there since arriving in 1984. The louvers in the new stadium, which are arranged in various densities, may also reflect the teams colors.Although construction has been going on at the site north and east of Giants Stadium since April, groundbreaking on the $1.3 billion stadium will take place today, with officials from both teams; the N.F.L., including Commissioner Roger Goodell; and the state expected to attend.It is the newest local sports project after decades without construction: the Devils Newark arena will open next month; the Mets and the Yankees are building ballparks that are expected to open in 2009; construction of the Red Bulls stadium is underway in Harrison, N.J.; and the Nets still anticipate building an arena near downtown Brooklyn.Since Giants Stadium opened, 22 stadiums have opened in the N.F.L., including the new Soldier Field, which involved building a new stadium inside the exterior of the old one. Eight facilities are older than Giants Stadium. One of them, the Dallas Cowboys Texas Stadium, is to be replaced by a $1 billion facility in 2009. Another, Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis., had a $295 million modernization that was completed without compromising its essence in 2003.According to renderings of the Jets-Giants stadium obtained by The New York Times, giant red pylons at the north and east entrances will display videos of each team, depending on which one is playing.A signature feature of the stadium which will be built in the shape of a rounded rectangle will be the massive Great Wall that will be partly visible through the louvers at the main entrance.The wall will be 400 feet long and 40 feet high, showing panels of images that will rotate between photographic murals of the Giants and Jets on game days and different pictures for concerts and other events.Inside, four 40-by-130-foot scoreboards will hang from each corner of the upper deck.The sight lines will be similar to those at Giants Stadium, which seats a little over 80,000, but in some cases seats will be farther away because the new facility will have more than double the square footage. The stadium complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and it will have four restaurants, nearly double the current 117 luxury suites, and 9,200 club seats, two club lounges, wider concourses and at least one hall of fame.Just outside the stadium is the location for a railway station which connects the Meadowlands to the Pascack Valley Line of New Jersey Transit that is expected to be completed in 2009. The addition of the rail station is similar to the plan to bring a Metro-North stop to the new Yankee Stadium. There will be numerous tailgating zones, and myriad options to buy food and merchandise in the plaza that will ring the stadium.The Giants and the Jets are the only N.F.L. teams to share a stadium, but there was never a guarantee that they would build the new one together. For a time, the teams were on parallel tracks to the future.The Giants planned to renovate Giants Stadium at a cost of $750 million. Meanwhile, the Jets stood fast to a $2.2 billion proposal to construct a stadium on the West Side of Manhattan that would have been an extension of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and the main Olympic stadium if New York City had won the bid to play host to the 2012 Summer Games. The Jets politically sensitive plan was attacked by Cablevision, owner of nearby Madison Square Garden, and was eventually spurned by the Public Authorities Control Board.In September 2005, the teams signed an agreement to jointly develop the stadium in New Jersey, which was then estimated to cost $800 million.The $1.3 billion cost to finance construction of the new stadium has the teams considering whether to require season-ticket holders to buy one-time personal seat licenses. The teams have already obtained a loan of $300 million from the leagues G-3 stadium financing program that must be repaid over 15 years from club seat revenues.

Bon Jovi to open The New Meadowlands Stadium

Bon Jovi to Christen New Meadowlands StadiumNew Jersey Rockers to Play May 26, 27Updated: Friday, 23 Oct 2009, 5:42 PM EDTPublished : Thursday, 22 Oct 2009, 8:57 PM EDTBy ARUN KRISTIAN DAS / MyFox New YorkMYFOXNY.COM - New Jersey's Bruce Springsteen played the last concert at the current Giants Stadium, but Bon Jovi will be the first music act to play at the new stadium when it opens in 2010.All four official band members have origins in or ties to New Jersey: Singer Jon Bon Jovi is from Sayreville, guitarist Richie Sambora hails from Woodbridge, keyboardist David Bryan's hometown is Edison, and drummer Tico Torres was born in New York, but raised in Colonia.The band announced the tour at a special mini-concert in the parking lot of the Meadowlands in front of the new stadium Thursday. A few thousand fans, construction workers, and members of the media attended.The band's 135-show tour will kick off in Seattle in February and then come to the Meadowlands with two shows on May 26 and 27.Tickets for the Meadowlands concerts will go on sale beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31, while additional tour dates go on sale Nov. 9 and 16.The band's documentary, "Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful," airs on Showtime on Oct. 24.Bon Jovi's new album, "The Circle," goes on sale Nov 10."The title is about our unity, which is our strength," said Jon Bon Jovi. "Having had 5 studio records in this decade, these songs mark a time not only in our life but in the band's.">BONJOVI.COM/MEADOWLANDS

Bon Jovi at the New Meadowlands Stadium

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Bon Jovi Concert
Wed, May. 26th, 2010 07:00 PM
Thu, May. 27th, 2010 07:00 PM
Sat, May. 29th, 2010 07:00 PM

Joel Osteen at the IZOD March 19, 2010

"A Night of Hope" with Joel and Victoria Osteen is an outreach of Joel Osteen Ministries and is an exciting time of praise and worship where attendees will hear an inspirational message from Joel and Victoria along with the electrifying music of Dove Award winning Cindy Cruse Ratcliff, Steve Crawford, Da'dra Greathouse, and the Lakewood Band and Ensemble.Joel and Victoria Osteen are pastors for a new generation. Referred to by many as a voice of hope, they reach one of the largest audiences in the U.S. and across the globe. Millions of people worldwide are inspired through their weekly television broadcasts, New York Times bestselling books, worship events, and popular weekly podcasts. He and Victoria are the pastors of America's largest church and one of the most diverse - the 40,000 strong Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. For more information go to www.joelosteen.com or www.victoriaosteen.com

Slayer and Megadeth at the IZOD Center August 12, 2010 7pm

"American Carnage" is the first time that Slayer and Megadeth will have toured the U.S. together since 1991's epic "Clash of the Titans" tour. To celebrate that and in recognition of the tough economic times that many of their fans are having, Megadeth and Slayer have decided to roll back the price of a chunk of tickets at every U.S. show to the "1991 price" of $10.00.

Jay-Z BP3 Tour March 6, 2010-IZOD Center, Meadowlands Complex

Saturday, March 6 2010 at 8:00 PM at the IZOD center, Meadowlands Sports complex, East Rutherford, NJ.

Family Events at the IZOD Center, New Jersey

Freestyle Motocross - Nuclear Cowboyz Fri. February 26 - Sat. February 27 IZOD Center
Smucker's Stars on Ice Sat. April 10 IZOD Center
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Presents Barnum's Funundrum! Wed. March 10 - Sun. March 14 IZOD Center

Bamboozle Line UP May 1st and 2nd 2010, New Jersey

May 1, 2010 LINE UP
Paramore
Angels and Airwaves
HansonThe Maine
The Aquabats
Architects
Asking Alexandria
DJ Prime
Emmure
Far East Movement
I See Stars
Let's Get It
Mike Posner
Miss May 1
My Favorite Highway
Of Mice and Men
Paper Tongues
Plus
Linc's special Guest
Protest The Hero
Roxy Cottontail
Secret Secret Dino Club
Skeet Skeet
Stephan Jerzak
T. Mills
The Ready Set
The Word ALive
This CenturyVersaemerge
We Came as Romans
May 2, 2010 LINE UP
Girl Talk
Matt & Kim
Mute Math
Say Anything
Kevin Devine Piebald
All Get Out
All the Day Holiday
Cara Salimadno
Champagne Champagne
Fun.
Gabriel the Marine
Good Old warGrieves
Hey Monday
MC Chris
Moving Mountains
Nevershoutnever
OK GO
Polar Bear Club
Sainthood REPS
Steel TrainThe Parlor Mob
The Summer Set

Notre Dame vs Navy Football

Notre Dame vs. Navy Football Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 1:00 PM (EST) at New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ

Notre Dame and Navy to play at New Meadowlands

It's still a year off, but the US Naval Academy announced this week that the 2010 Navy vs. Notre Dame Football game will be played at the New Meadowlands Stadium, home to the Jets and Giants starting after the upcoming 2009 season.

Jets President and CEO Woody Johnson said he is "thrilled that Navy and Notre Dame will be playing their annual game in our new stadium when it opens next year,” and that the new stadium was designed to not only "be our new home but also to bring a variety of spectacular events, including high profile college football matchups..."This is just the first of what we expect to be many announcements of non-NFL events at the stadium and it's a good thing too. The concerts will sell out at Giants Stadium, but old facilities and poor sound turn many would be attendees off. Hopefully that will change in 2010.