[BuiltRamTough]

Just click on the picture to load more pictures. There's no denying the stadium is beautiful.

http://m.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/ ... touch=true

[Ramfan46]

Nothing but pictures, where are the financial details? Also why would Kroenke want a stadium for his club to be in the crappiest part of the city. Blighted is code for rundown junk. I just don't see people magically wanting to go to this stadium when they can't be bothered to go to the one they have a mile away. They can't even afford the old one which was $200 million. Now they can afford 1 billion?? I ain't buying it.

[Elvis]

Alleged stadium...

[bluecoconuts]

I like just about everything except for the stupid video screens. I still don't think Kroenke is excited about it though.

[Hacksaw]

It's way better than the ED. Not close to C of Champs

[TSFH Fan]

I'm thinking that stadium schematics are a lot like the business hotel pictures on TripAdvisor -- semi-misleading glamour shots from just the right angle (ignoring the fictional nature).

OT/For example, here's recent pictures of the planned/renovated LA Coliseum:

But, regardless, I'm hoping to see more pics of Chez Kroenke

[moklerman]

St. Louis riverfront and Rams are never going to happen. That being said, I haven't been overly impressed with their renderings anyway. Stan is proposing an NFL city that will host the draft, Super Bowls, etc. No way the league balks at that.

[den-the-coach]

St. Louis riverfront and Rams are never going to happen. That being said, I haven't been overly impressed with their renderings anyway. Stan is proposing an NFL city that will host the draft, Super Bowls, etc. No way the league balks at that.

This^ in a nutshell and that's where the City of St. Louis went wrong. Funny many in the St. Louis media stated that Kroenke would never go rogue, however, the city never tried to partner with Kroenke until it was too late thus the city went rogue. EJK wants more than a stadium as @moklerman suggest, he's a big picture type of guy.

St. Louis had their chance several years ago to partner with EJK and come together on a plan to build a venue similar to Indianapolis, which would have intrigued EJK IMO, instead they forced Kroenke to make a new plan Stan and he did with the City of Champions Stadium that will be a palatial venue for the ages....Almost Home!

[69superbowl]

Nice drawings, but I made the mistake of scrolling down and reading some of the awful news articles. Wow, rough town. The word juxtaposition comes to mind.

[TSFH Fan]

Rams stadium to serve “regular fans” by giving them place to drink beer and not watch the game
http://www.fieldofschemes.com/2015/09/0 ... -the-game/

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Neil deMause

When you’re locked in a flamewar with the legislators you need to pass your football stadium funding plan, what can you do to get people excited about it again? Release new renderings of what the stadium might look like if it ever gets built!

Now, sure, you or I might look at this and think, “Wow, those upper deck seats are going to be a million miles from the field, sitting atop two (or three?) levels of luxury suites and looking down even on the scoreboard.” But that’s not how HOK designer Eli Hoisington thinks of it:

“There’s a trend where everything is luxury, everything is suites now. And we put the general die-hard St. Louis fan front-and-center, embedded in the experience.”

Hoisington’s example of “front-and-center”: Fans will get a three-story brewpub on the outside of the stadium, where they can buy beers and look out at the Mississippi River. Also a 30-foot-wide observation deck for looking at, again, not the game.

Here’s where I would normally make a joke about a slow, muddy river being more entertaining to watch than the Rams, but you know what? This isn’t about what the Rams have done on the field lately, or what they’ll do in the future, or even whether diehard fans might enjoy watching the team through good times and bad, because that’s what diehard fans do. This is about stadium designers thinking that the best thing can do for “regular fans” is give them a really big place to get drunk while watching the game on TV monitors. The saddest part of which is that in the modern NFL-watching experience, it may actually be true.