The New Chargers Stadium is the working name of a proposed NFL football stadium that would house the San Diego Chargers football team, replacing Qualcomm Stadium as the franchise's home venue.
During the 2003 NFL season and even beforehand, there has been much talk of the Chargers replacing the increasingly obsolete (by NFL standards) Qualcomm Stadium with a more modern, Super Bowl caliber football stadium, mainly due to obsolete features of the stadium as well as severe maintenance issues with the facility.
The team and city have both attempted to bring business partners in on a proposed $800 Million project, which was supposed to be located in the parking lot of the current stadium and include upgrades to the area and infrastructure, but all efforts have failed.
Currently, after failed attempts by the Chargers and the city of San Diego to come to an agreement on the new stadium, mainly due to the city’s inability to fund a stadium, the Chargers organization is looking at other places in San Diego County, notably Chula Vista, Oceanside, and Escondido, and most recently Downtown San Diego. According to the San Diego Chargers in January 2013 they will remain in San Diego. With that being said, the Chargers stadium is still TBD.
Read more about New Chargers Stadium: The San Diego Stadium Coalition, Planning, Relocation, Projected Design, See Also
Famous quotes containing the word stadium:
“In their eyes I have seen
the pin men of madness in marathon trim
race round the track of the stadium pupil.”
—Patricia K. Page (b. 1916)