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Just about every new soccer stadium around the world incorporates these type of sections. Many older stadiums have also been retrofitted to incorporate them. Soccer stadiums used to be mostly a collection of various terraces, which were essentially just steps for fans to stand on. Nobody sat, except for small areas of the stadium which actually had seats. Over time, Seats were added to more and more areas of the stadiums, and the standing terrace areas were reserved for the "ultras" or the "hooligans". Here is what many of the stadiums in England and across Europe looked like until the late 80s and early 90s: In 1989, the Hillsborough Disaster occurred, in which 96 fans were crushed to death in one of the terraces during an FA Cup match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forrest when police lost control of the crowd and too many fans were allowed into a small confined area. As a result, rules were put in place in the UK (and slowly across the rest of Europe and the world) requiring stadiums in the top leagues to be "all-seaters". For decades, stadiums across Europe were remodeled to be all-seaters, and all new stadiums were built to be all-seaters. In the last decade or so, some countries have relaxed their all-seater rules now that these new safe-standing sections have been designed. Some large profile stadiums in Europe, such as Celtic Park in Glasgow have installed versions of safe-standing areas. In the US, almost every stadium built in the last ~5 years has been equipped with safe-standing. San Jose was the first to use it when they opened their stadium in 2015. Since then, Orlando City, LAFC, Minnesota United, DC United, FC Cincinnati, Austin FC, and Columbus have all built their stadiums with safe-standing areas. Other teams like FC Dallas and the LA Galaxy have renovated sections to include safe-standing areas. So, that's an incredibly long-winded way of saying this type of section is very common nowadays, and almost expected of any new soccer stadium.

The entire north end (the Nordecke) is what's known as "safe standing", hence the railing. The benches will be flipped up during the games, but can flipped down for other events when seating is necessary.

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I'm just gonna keep spamming this thread with stadium pics haha

Go Crew!

😍😍😍😍😍😍 Look at how steep those stands are for the Nordecke!

I saw this skyline picture posted to r/Columbus. It gives a good sense of the first phase will supplement the skyline from certain angles of the city. You can also see the Hilton tower rising in the distance.

"Millennial Apartments" lol I wonder how long it will take for developers to begin realizing that most of the younger end of the Millennial generation are now married and have a kid, and most of the older end are getting ready to send their first kid to college. It seems like most Boomers and many GenXers assume Millennials are still the single recent college grads. They really need to update their view of society.

There are some jokes to be made here....but I will resist.

In Ohio you can chose your electric provider. They do not have a monopoly. They also aren't sponsoring the stadium, they are simply an in-stadium sponsor, similar to sponsorships they have at other sporting venues around Columbus. Apparently you didn't read any other post in this thread. If they offer up enough money to someone, yea there would be a CoverMyMeds Arena. What's wrong with that? There's a "Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse" in Cleveland. There's a "Fiserv Forum" in Milwaukee. There's a "FTX Arena" in Miami. There's an "Xcel Energy Center" in Saint Paul. There's a "Lumen Field" in Seattle. There's an "NRG Stadium" in Houston. There's a "SoFi Stadium" in LA. There's a "Guaranteed Rate Field" in Chicago. There's a "Children's Mercy Park" in Kansas City. There's a "DRV PNK Stadium" in Miami. There's a "Q2 Stadium" in Austin. There's a "TQL Stadium" in Cincinnati. There are plenty of ridiculous sounding stadium names in the world of sports, because often times there are lesser known companies willing to shell out big bucks to garner more name recognition. That's exactly what Lower is doing and that's what many of these other stadium sponsors are doing. This is nothing new.

There really is a ton of potential left in the AD. If we could do something about the railroad triangle, I think it would really unleash that potential. That's a big if, but one can hope. Even without doing getting rid of the triangle, there are still a good number of surface lots and 1-2 story buildings that are ripe for development or redevelopment. I think once the first phase of Astor Park gets up and running, we'll start to see the rest of pieces begin to fall in place to fill in the gap between Astor Park and Neil Ave.

Here are some more that were posted to BigSoccer.

Apparently the building on that lot was built in 1920, and the larger building next to it was built in 1936. That's kind of surprising based on their appearance, but something to consider when thinking about how those lots could be redeveloped to enhance the Astor Park area.

Courtesy of Red Hawk Drone.

I was reading the BigSoccer thread for the new stadium, and a poster mentioned that they were told during a stadium tour that there are plans to build a hotel at 600 W Spring, which is across the street from the stadium, I believe, owned by NRI. If true, this would be pretty exciting. I'm really hoping the surface lots across Nationwide Blvd from the stadium get developed on at some point. If a hotel truly does get built there, I hope they get some decent height out of it. It would provide some pretty unique views of the city. https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/crew-stadium-2-0-construction-news-and-notes.2106744/page-189#post-39673813

Yep, it was taken down yesterday I believe. Very sad, but very exciting that we are so close to the stadium opening!

This view is awesome! I'm so pumped to see so much activity on that side of the river.

From the looks of it @NorthShore647and I were sitting very close to each other this past Saturday. Glad to see you made it to the game!

Could "Phase 3" be the 12-story tower? Let's hope so!

I don't think the rain will have much effect because of the most work left to be done is internal. It might effect the smokestack painting, but the stadium should be good to go.

Yea it will likely be taller than the top of the crane currently, but from a distance I don't know if it will be a huge difference. Regardless, it will be at least as tall as the crane currently which is very exciting!

I'm guessing the top of the crane is about how tall the tower will end up being, so this gives us a good sense of the impact it will have on the skyline.

We finally have a rendering of the Dodd garage.

And the tower will be even taller!

It's also very close to "The Bottoms". 😆