The final stretch: The journey to a new Buffalo Bills stadium
The Buffalo Bills franchise has entered the final stretch in the construction of the new Highmark Stadium. Read about the developments here.
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Here are five takeaways on the construction of the new home of the Buffalo Bills.
From the early stages of construction, to the final stretch before it opens in 2026, you can read The Buffalo News' stories about the construc…
Watch and see the progress of the construction of the new Highmark Stadium in these videos and photo galleries.
Construction of the new Highmark Stadium has had an impact on its surrounding area, from the closing of longtime businesses, to a rise in prop…
In March 2022, the Buffalo Bills, New York State and Erie County reached a deal to build a then-$1.4 billion stadium for the football team. Si…
The Buffalo Bills are now offering a virtual tour of the new stadium on their website that gives all fans a perspective of what it will be like to sit inside the more than $2 billion building and could help to get more fans signed up for the season ticket holder waitlist.
The Buffalo Bills have released new parking configurations and names for team lots. And they're certainly not cheap.
Work is going on constantly and with great speed around the entirety of the Buffalo Bills new stadium, which is slated for substantial completion in June. It鈥檚 being done so quickly that spaces like the building's enormous suite lounge, which still needs a lot of interior and drywall work, will look entirely different by next week.
The family of three bison coming to Family Circle at the Buffalo Bills new stadium will be stainless steel and can be illuminated in different colors and scenes. They can even have smoke billow out of their nostrils.
With many parts of the work to demolish the current stadium next spring now under contract, the Bills are projecting minority-owned, women-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned businesses will exceed the goals for their hiring at the stadium.
Thousands of fans went from the new stadium waitlist to becoming season ticket holders last year. The opportunity has created a significant base of fans from across the region, state and Canada who will be able to take their initial steps into the over $2 billion new stadium as first-time season ticket holders.
The project to build the Buffalo Bills stadium has meant physical demands, long hours and irregular work schedules for many of the construction workers on the approximately three-year job. That鈥檚 made it even more vital to make on-demand, preventative mental health counseling available.
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Power was officially turned off to the current Highmark Stadium on Friday.聽It is considered the start of the stadium鈥檚 mass demolition and is a significant milestone for the project as the new stadium nears completion.
Despite early worries about whether the Bills stadium construction project would be able to involve enough underserved and disadvantaged businesses, construction manager Gilbane Turner now reports more than 30% MWBE participation in the $2.2 billion stadium project.
Before demo work started on the old Bills stadium,聽Brandon Steiner's company worked feverishly to remove final聽keepsakes to put up for sale.聽
The Buffalo Bills say they were actually planning to start the demolition process around this time in May all along. But they needed to first make sure their new stadium would be ready as planned this summer in time for the 2026 season.
The Buffalo Bills will celebrate gaining their certificate of temporary occupancy and closing in on opening their new stadium with a ribbon cutting on June 23 in Orchard Park.
Toyota joins a long list of Buffalo Bills corporate partners who are staying on with the team as they move into the $2.2 billion stadium. The automotive brand is the team鈥檚 eighth founding partner at the new stadium.
What exactly does it mean for the Buffalo Bills to have their new stadium substantially complete? Essentially, the more $2 billion stadium project will be going from a construction site to a building that can be occupied by the team.
Legends Global held a job fair Monday at the Kaleida Health Performance Center to fill out jobs for stadium culinary, concessions and premium job staff. The company expects to hire approximately 600 part-time and full-time employees, with up to 1,200 workers needed for each home game.
The Buffalo Bills celebrated being on the verge of completing the project to build a new over $2 billion stadium on Tuesday, three years to the month that they broke ground on construction in June 2023.
It was made clear Tuesday during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new stadium that the legacy of Wilson, the founder of the Bills who owned the team from 1960 until his death in 2014 at age 95, will remain an important part of the franchise.
Tickets to Bills鈥 home games this season for the most part are only available on the secondary market, expensive and hard to come by, making just picking up and going a thing of the past.
More than 50 years ago, The Buffalo Evening News reported on the financing, construction an opening of the Bills' previous home, then called Rich Stadium. You can read that coverage in the pages of The News here.
Policing the Buffalo Bills over $2 billion stadium under construction in Orchard Park is expected to be a more seamless task than it is at the current decades-old Highmark Stadium.
The Bills aren't alone. There are at least seven other stadium projects underway or in the works. They come with different asks for public funding, and most with plans for surrounding development around the building to make the projects more than just a stadium.
The Buffalo Bills are getting very close to selling out seat licenses for their new stadium set to open next season after enjoying their biggest quarter of sales yet. Seat licenses were 89% sold through by the end of September, according to the team鈥檚 report that was released by the state on Wednesday.
