Gaints stadium tours.

Not for me. I could probably give the tour.

 

They were talking about this on NJN news the other day, no tours of the Giants or Jets locker rooms they are off limits only the visitors lr, some of you will be greatly disappointed...you will get to see the luxury suites, press box, get to go on the field.

Think I will pass.

Why the hell would they do this now? If they combined it with a tour of the new stadium maybe.

 

"On your left is the infamous Gate D"

 

"Get a glimpse of the player locker rooms".....they probably let you peek in an open door.

Anything to make a buck!! Kind of cheesey !!

The Meadowlands have no special meaning to me, hated the moved to Jersey in 84. I understand why the Jets needed to leave Shea....but never fully got over it. I guess only Long Island/Queens Jet Fans of the 60's/70's/early 80's understand. Can't wait till they tear that piece of crap down. The Jet's have always been second class citizens at their home field, even at Shea......the Met's and NYC told the Jets what they could and couldn't do.

 

15 a ticket? sad.

 

I think parking is only $20, so it's a steal

 

Xanadu is not going so well either, place will be a ghost town except on game days. Failed concept from the start.

How can they charge you to park if you wanted to go shopping on days when events are going on?

I thought about going to see Clapton/Winwood this week except a decent seat came to over $200 w/SC.

The good old days they will not return...oh well

 

Yeah, no way. I can understand a Yankee Stadium or Madison Square Garden tour... but Giants Stadium? What the fuck kind of history as at this place? You don't even get to go in the Jets locker room? Stupid.

The MSG one was insane. We got to go in the Rangers and Knicks locker rooms... in the backstage area where they had extra hockey nets... sat on the Rangers bench. This was way back though. It was awesome. I remember as a kid going and sitting the bench in Mark Messier's locker. Fucking awesome.

 

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/post_66.html

Didn't want to start a new thread...this place is butt fugly
Unless alot of people take the train I don't see anyway around satellite parking, tailgating fugetaboutit

Meadowlands Xanadu announces delay in planned August opening
by Ted Sherman/The Star-Ledger
Saturday March 21, 2009, 8:00 AM

Matt Rainey/The Star-Ledger
Dave Schick, an employee of GAR Equipment of South Plainfield works to load and remove up to 100 scissor lifts from the Xanadu work site Friday morning.
The signature outdoor store with its own waterfall and mountain stream is in hibernation. The multiplex cinema is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. And a key lender is in default.

Today, the Xanadu complex in the Meadowlands -- which was selling a $2 billion fantasy experience replete with an indoor ski slope, skydiving wind tunnels, the country's tallest Ferris wheel and hundreds of retail shops -- faced the cold reality of the faltering economy.


Officials said some construction is being slowed and the opening of the 2.3-million-square-foot complex along the New Jersey Turnpike in East Rutherford will again be delayed.

Workers at the site said they were told they were being let go, but a spokesman for the developer, Meadowlands Xanadu, said the project is not being halted -- only that it will not open as planned late this summer because of financing issues with one of its lenders.

"There is still ongoing construction," the spokesman, Tim White, said. "It's just at a different pace." The company is contemplating a new opening date beyond August 2009, he said, and asked contractors "to re-focus their work in line with that goal."

No new date has been set. The project, which has drawn criticism for its garish exterior of orange, blue and green panels that give it the appearance of stacked cargo shipping containers, is about 90 percent compete.



Xanadu has been having increasing trouble leasing the vast retail space it is assembling. One partner building an 18-screen movie theater in the complex is in financial default. Cabelas, the outdoor hunting and fishing outfitter and a major anchor, said earlier this month it will delay its opening until spring of 2010.

Xanadu officials say more than 70 percent of the shopping and entertainment complex has been rented, but many in the real estate industry say the continuing decline in the economy makes that number suspect with so many retailers across the country going out of business.

White said the construction schedule was changed because of a default by a non-bankrupt affiliate of Lehman Brothers known as Xanadu Mezz Holdings LLC -- which he said refused to fund its share of the construction loans. Meadowlands Xanadu said it was planning to file suit against the lender.

"We are taking all possible steps to get the lender to fulfill its obligations," White said. "We have opened talks with our other lenders -- all of whom are current on their funding obligations -- to resolve the issue."

While White said work at the site continued, some construction workers at the mega-mall site could be seen hauling away equipment and said they were told the project was being shut down.

Dave Schick, an employee of GAR Equipment of South Plainfield, said he was told the entire site is being shut down with the exception of electricians and sprinkler fitters. Paul Pine, another GAR worker, was sent to the Xanadu site to remove 100 construction lifts.

"All I know is they told us to get the stuff out," Pine said. "I was just told this morning."

Officials at the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, which received $160 million for a 15-year lease for Xanadu, said the authority is reviewing its redevelopment agreement to see what remedies the agency may have if the project is suspended. Carl Goldberg, chairman of the authority, was also irked that the state had not been informed of the problems.

"It's an integral part of our vision for the future," said Goldberg, who has a meeting scheduled within 10 days with the developer. "As the landlord, I need to know when they are going to open."

State Senate President Richard Codey (D-Essex) was more critical.

"This is the icing on the cake that flopped before you could get it out of the oven," Codey said. "This would be a tremendous disappointment in any economic climate, but given the dire straits we're in now, it's a huge setback to a region that was relying heavily on the project for job creation and revenue."

Codey said Xanadu's project managers "need to get their heads out of the sand" and answer whether completion is even feasible at this point.

Xanadu was always a risky project, said James W. Hughes, dean of Rutgers University's Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy who studies economic trends in New Jersey. He said the project was caught between overlapping storms.

"Basically the fiscal crisis is still in overdrive, and Xanadu is a risky investment at a time all lenders are risk-adverse," Hughes said. At the same time, there is continuing retrenchment by consumers.

"Labor markets keep getting worse, home equity is declining, and 401(k) nest eggs have big cracks in them, so people are zipping up their wallets," he said. "There is not a lot of slack purchasing power out there that will flow to Xanadu. It will go to Walmart."

Robert Corrales, a spokesman for Gov. Jon Corzine, said many companies are faced with difficult decisions because of the national economic crisis.

"When Xanadu opens, it is going to be a great destination for New Jerseyans," he said.

But Xanadu opponent Jeff Tittel, executive director of the New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club, called the project a disaster waiting to happen.

"We've given millions in incentives, tax breaks and transportation on a project that was pushed through because of political connections -- not because we needed it," he said. "Xanadu is a monument to hubris and excess. It's ugly. It's toxic. And now it's empty."

 

For $5 more, you cn have beer thrown on you at the bottom of one of the spirals.

 

"We've given millions in incentives, tax breaks and transportation on a project that was pushed through because of political connections -- not because we needed it," he said. "Xanadu is a monument to hubris and excess. It's ugly. It's toxic. And now it's empty."

this is exactly the type of thinking that has gotten us in all this trouble in the first place!

i never knew anything about xanadu until now, but it appears to be a disgusting mess, almost to the point of the new stadium. although with it being as far completed as it appears to be i cant see how someone wouldnt move in during the next few years and make it happen.

i highly doubt they will come in with the wrecking ball at this point.

 

Xanadu Shantytown

It's all about bribes, graft, and political corruption. What a freakin fiasco!!!!

 

That right there is fukin tragic.