Top 10 Biggest Sports Venue Development Fails

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  • Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2024

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  • @thedrunkenwobblies1331
    @thedrunkenwobblies1331 Месяц назад +47

    How Olympic stadium in Montreal missed this list is beyond me.

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  29 дней назад +16

      That's a good one for sure! For this list I left olympic venues off just because there are so many of them that had major problems.

    • @russkelly1684
      @russkelly1684 26 дней назад +5

      @drunken wobbles: totally agree; it deserves a video of its own. Whole complex should hold a Guinness Record for amount of concrete used.

    • @Marylandbrony
      @Marylandbrony 22 дня назад

      ​@BuildingTales In general these are collapsed or seldom used stadiums. Not disappointments with semi-regular use.

    • @thedrunkenwobblies1331
      @thedrunkenwobblies1331 22 дня назад +2

      @@Marylandbrony The roof of Olympic Stadium has partially collapsed twice. They are currently spending another 250 million dollars to repair it with no tenant. Also, the stadium wasn't the only building on that chunk of land with engineering failures. And there really isn't a more expensive venue in terms of how much it has cost in terms of building it and repairing it. I believe the initial cost, adjusted for inflation, is something like 5 billion.. So almost twice as expensive as SoFi in LA if you count just the building. The roof, which was a huge engineering feat and what cost a ton of money, never even worked.

  • @marklittle8805
    @marklittle8805 26 дней назад +19

    The Olympic Stadium in Montreal is the poster child for failure. It was not finished on time, it was souless for baseball and it has had a number of structural issues

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  25 дней назад

      Yep that's definitely a big one!

    • @David-lx4yb
      @David-lx4yb 3 дня назад +1

      Do the Montreal Alouettes still play there?

  • @chuckinhouston9952
    @chuckinhouston9952 8 дней назад +8

    Thanks for using your own voice instead of some stupid AI voice.

  • @_NoDrinkTheBleach
    @_NoDrinkTheBleach Месяц назад +7

    Campbell's Stadium was a heartbreaking failure. It was one of the best features of the Camden waterfront.

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  29 дней назад +1

      Agreed... shame to see it torn down. Camden needs all the nice things it can get, so to see a gem like that prematurely torn down is kinda a shame.

    • @guyfaux3978
      @guyfaux3978 29 дней назад

      @@BuildingTales Its counterpart in Northern NJ, Newark, had Eagles/Bears Stadium, also part of a redevelopment project. After almost 20 years it too got redeveloped.

    • @johnchambers8528
      @johnchambers8528 28 дней назад +2

      @@BuildingTalesThe problem was not the stadium. It was the baseball league that failed. Without other teams to play there was no use for the stadium. Its location just off the riverfront May also hurt the attendance at that site. You had a long walk from any transit line and most people were afraid of crime in Camden.

    • @PhillyBagel
      @PhillyBagel 27 дней назад +2

      The Atlantic League built taxpayer subsidized ballparks in Camden, Newark, Atlantic City, and Bridgeport, CT. They league never made money on those inner city teams and they all folded. Camden and Newark were demolished and the Atlantic City location will be leveled soon. Bridgeport was heavily modified into a concert venue and is unrecognizable as a ballpark. Amazingly, Gary, Indiana has a ballpark facing similar challenges but they’re doing well because they’re in a different independent league.

    • @davidbfitz13
      @davidbfitz13 14 дней назад

      @@guyfaux3978I used to enjoy going to Bears games in Newark. I always wanted to see the Camden park but it never happened.

  • @joshuamountz6891
    @joshuamountz6891 23 дня назад +5

    I would have considered the Richfield Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio. Built as the home of the Cleveland Cavaliers in hopes of building up the town of Richfield. The problem was that nobody wanted to move there ,the weather during the winter can be awful at times, and no easy access to most of the communities east or west of the town

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  22 дня назад

      Hadn't heard of the one before, I'll definitely look into it! Thanks for the suggestion!

    • @joshuamountz6891
      @joshuamountz6891 22 дня назад +1

      @@BuildingTales at the time it was built there was no easy access to Richfield from the western countries just a bunch of country back roads

    • @davidbfitz13
      @davidbfitz13 14 дней назад

      It was basically built in the middle of a remote forest and has since reverted back to that.

  • @johnchambers8528
    @johnchambers8528 28 дней назад +2

    I would add to the list an abandoned horse race track. The rebuilt Garden State Park in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. This building was a new stadium to be a primer place for thoroughbred and harness racing that replaced the old burned down thoroughbred grandstand. It was to rival the Meadowlands in north Jersey. Unfortunately it was built just as casino gambling was growing in Atlantic City, New Jersey. That caused the interest in horse racing to decline and while it did attract good crowds for big race days it never lived up to its expectations. Eventually it closed down and today is the site of mixed use purposes like retail and residential and other uses.

  • @JBM425
    @JBM425 24 дня назад +1

    There was a new arena project in Port Huron, Michigan in the early 2000s that was privately funded adjacent to an outlet mall in the outskirts of the city. The current McMorran Arena in downtown Port Huron only seats about 3,000 and this new arena would have tripled that. Construction began, and about 1/3 of the support columns had been built when financing fell through. It was essentially abandoned in place, and nobody stepped up to take over the project. I’m not sure if it was finally razed for redevelopment.

    • @JBM425
      @JBM425 24 дня назад

      Update: the remains of that unfinished arena in Kimball Township were finally demolished in July 2014. Ironically, around 2006, a new arena was built just down the river in Windsor, Ontario using not only the plans for the Kimball Township arena, but also some of the materials originally intended for the Kimball Twp. facility!

  • @anthonyarchuletasr7018
    @anthonyarchuletasr7018 25 дней назад +8

    You forgot Levi stadium in Santa Clara, California

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  25 дней назад +2

      I might have to make a part 2 video! Appreciate the suggestion!

    • @dannygreene6257
      @dannygreene6257 24 дня назад

      Levi's Stadium is not a failure as the 49ers play there

    • @Jackofspades76
      @Jackofspades76 20 дней назад +3

      A failure when its warm and there is no escape from the sun

    • @shaunnichols1743
      @shaunnichols1743 8 дней назад

      If you mean the heat that's only an issue for a few days out of the year. Yeah it's annoying but it's nowhere near the places on this list.

    • @shaunnichols1743
      @shaunnichols1743 8 дней назад +1

      @@Jackofspades76 go down to one of the concourses at the corners. You get a nice breeze and a closer view of the field.

  • @afterburner94
    @afterburner94 25 дней назад

    The google earth views made that top 10 video rise above anything else. Gelreat job editing it together !
    Its staggering the amount of money poured into failed sport stadium or buildings whil money would have been better spent on regular infrastructure like roads and bridges.

  • @johnmaster3748
    @johnmaster3748 28 дней назад +8

    Kemper Arena's roof was an engineering failure. But before and after, the building served its function. It was eventually superseded by a more modern arena. But the building was repurposed successfully. I am not sure that qualifies as a failure of development.

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  25 дней назад +2

      That's a fair perspective! It is pretty impressive that despite the initial problems, it has seen so much use in the decades since

    • @jamesfields2916
      @jamesfields2916 17 дней назад +1

      Agreed.

    • @MichaelSmith-mi2vr
      @MichaelSmith-mi2vr 9 дней назад +1

      Kemper Arena has hosted NCAA tournament games as well as the 1988 Final 4, where Kansas defeated Oklahoma in the championship n

    • @jamesfields2916
      @jamesfields2916 9 дней назад

      @@MichaelSmith-mi2vr Cost me a lot of money! I had Oklahoma iny pool

  • @geoff3103
    @geoff3103 18 дней назад +4

    honorable mention: Seetgeek stadium in Bridgeview Illinois

  • @Lee-y8w2b
    @Lee-y8w2b 15 дней назад +1

    I'm glad they were able to save the Pyramid in Memphis. One of my favorite pro sports arenas.

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  15 дней назад +1

      Agreed! Such a unique building, glad its getting a lot of use now!

  • @MrDougman59
    @MrDougman59 20 дней назад +1

    There was a San Francisco PCL baseball stadium, Ewing Field, built in 1914 only used for that purpose for one year.

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  20 дней назад

      Very cool! I hadn’t heard of that one before!

  • @georgeblangfordjr.1771
    @georgeblangfordjr.1771 29 дней назад +3

    The Miami Marine stadium was featured on CSI Miami

    • @99somerville
      @99somerville 24 дня назад

      Also an Elvis movie in the early 60s.

  • @chrismickunas8130
    @chrismickunas8130 8 дней назад

    Ah Kemper, can’t even count the number of KC Blades games, concerts and other events I’ve been to there. Even though I was not even 10 when the roof collapsed I still remember those stories after it happened.

  • @shaunnichols1743
    @shaunnichols1743 8 дней назад +1

    Oakland Coliseum. They took all the money for maintenance and renovations and used it to build a massive upper deck that ruined the atmosphere and never even got used. Meanwhile the stadium authority was so in debt they couldn't even do things like replace plumbing and repaint the walls so the whole stadium fell into disrepair.

    • @patrickdare5356
      @patrickdare5356 6 дней назад

      Isn't this where the dugouts flooded because the sewer system backed up?

    • @shaunnichols1743
      @shaunnichols1743 6 дней назад

      @@patrickdare5356 More or less. They tend to have issues when it rains. The field is below sea level and built on what is essentially reclaimed marshland. Combine that with not spending on upkeep for a couple decades and things tend to get poopy.

  • @sboyle71177
    @sboyle71177 9 дней назад

    The Panthers facility in Rock Hill, SC was a mess. They redid I-77 and the surrounding roads to accommodate higher traffic just for the whole thing to go tits up.

  • @99somerville
    @99somerville 24 дня назад +4

    Somehow I know taxpayers got hosed on these structures.

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  24 дня назад +1

      Unfortunately it does seem to work out that way most of the time

  • @billmcg1676
    @billmcg1676 18 дней назад +1

    Also, the ballpark at Arlington. Texas summer heat and outdoor baseball stadium: no bueno 😂

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  17 дней назад +3

      Very true! Its a shame about that, because otherwise it seems like a really cool stadium.

    • @billmcg1676
      @billmcg1676 17 дней назад

      @@BuildingTales Yeah, I never went there but it looked really cool. I guess one of the local colleges still uses it for football but as we all know baseball stadiums do not work well with football fields so it looks wonky. And it only lasted 20 years for the Texas Rangers.

  • @toneale
    @toneale 8 дней назад +1

    This list is incomplete without including the Alamodome.

  • @scarpfish
    @scarpfish 13 дней назад +2

    "Sports venues can be a very good investment"
    Said no one looking at the financials of building such facilities ever.

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  11 дней назад

      Seems like a bit of a generalization...

    • @shaunnichols1743
      @shaunnichols1743 8 дней назад +1

      Depends. Football stadiums have a pretty bad history for return on investment, but baseball parks are actually a decent value because they are guaranteed to be open 80+ days a year which is enough to support restaurant and hotel districts. If you look at places like San Francisco or Denver the ballpark changed the entire surrounding neighborhood for the better.

  • @mattknicky8919
    @mattknicky8919 26 дней назад +3

    No Greece or Brazil olympic stadiums?

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  25 дней назад +2

      I made a video specifically about some of the failed olympic venues a month or two back so for this particular list I decided to leave those ones off. But they definitely are some of the most striking examples of failed sports venues!

  • @antonellogiannuzzi6609
    @antonellogiannuzzi6609 25 дней назад +1

    You should look about the Calatrava's Sails in Rome. It was supposed to be an olymplic like sport city but it was never finished

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  25 дней назад

      Definitely will, thanks for the suggestion!

  • @mikejacobs7464
    @mikejacobs7464 24 дня назад +1

    Videotron center in Quebec City and Sprint Center also in Kansas City should have been mentioned due to both the facilities were built specifically to lure a major league (NHL or NBA) team to which neither venue has managed to get!

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  22 дня назад

      Both good suggestions! I'm going to need to make a part 2 video!

    • @bradleyminoski2020
      @bradleyminoski2020 13 дней назад +1

      At least with the Sprint Center, they constantly get concerts, wrestling and the Big 12 tourney to make up for that.

    • @dickensonfarms
      @dickensonfarms 12 дней назад

      ​@bradleyminoski2020 same can be said for Centre Videotron. The Remparts Major Junior team plays there and regularly tops the CHL. The Quebec Peewee Hockey Tournament is also held there

  • @skidawg22
    @skidawg22 29 дней назад +2

    Kemper was recently repurposed as a community center.

  • @MichialMathews
    @MichialMathews 7 дней назад +2

    HARTFORD Whalers, Not New England Whalers.

  • @bapples
    @bapples 10 дней назад

    6:20 ironically in 1981 KC Hyatt walkway collapse two years later led to the death of 114 people.

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  8 дней назад

      Crazy that a whole stadium roof can come down with no casualties, but that walkway incident was so devastatingly awful

  • @johngladding2315
    @johngladding2315 7 часов назад

    How about the football/baseball stadium in Sacramento. Abandoned hallway through

  • @willijs8
    @willijs8 8 дней назад

    How is it a failure if it's repaired and still in use?

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  7 дней назад +1

      Generally it’s considered preferable if your stadium doesn’t collapse

  • @zionavey1673
    @zionavey1673 13 часов назад

    Miami marina is not a fail. It's still standing. The sport died out for racing. The marina has stood the test of time.

  • @raymondlyons361
    @raymondlyons361 Месяц назад +5

    The money spent on all this "special" infrastructure that could have been spent better in other areas.

  • @bobzelley5100
    @bobzelley5100 8 дней назад

    Have you been to the Camden stadium. It was the poorest population and most dangerous of any stadium ever built in the lower 48. It was built to spend money .

  • @firebird6522
    @firebird6522 2 дня назад

    Not sure how you could consider the Allen football stadium a failure. The construction and the design firms did a bad job and they had to fix it at no cost to the school district. It's now been fixed and has been in use ever since. So how is that a failure? Is it over-the-top for a high school stadium? Probably everywhere but Texas. I don't live anywhere near Allen and have nothing to do with them, but I took a closer look and the school district is a very good one, most of the kids go to college, there are few dropouts, and the local taxpayers had a choice to approve the spending for the stadium. So where's the failure?

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  2 дня назад

      Thanks for watching! Interesting thought!

  • @Happymali10
    @Happymali10 24 дня назад

    I think you cut the audio for number 3 off a tad early.

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  22 дня назад

      Yea, im still kinda new to video editing so its still a little clunkier than I would like ... but definitely working on it and hopefully future videos will be a little smoother!

  • @jimrinard1969
    @jimrinard1969 Месяц назад +2

    Look into the Rosemont Horizon!

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  29 дней назад +1

      Will do! Appreciate the suggestion!

    • @JL-sm6cg
      @JL-sm6cg 28 дней назад +3

      It's now Allstate Arena, and it does get a lot of use, though mainly by concerts and the WWE. What was its original purpose, though?

    • @jimrinard1969
      @jimrinard1969 28 дней назад +2

      @@JL-sm6cg when it was being built it collapsed due to faulty bolts I believe.

    • @JL-sm6cg
      @JL-sm6cg 28 дней назад +2

      @jimrinard1969 oh, that i wasn't aware of. I was thinking usage rather than it falling apart.

    • @davdhartung9817
      @davdhartung9817 25 дней назад

      College basketball and minor league hockey ​@@JL-sm6cg

  • @DanB3286
    @DanB3286 9 дней назад

    How did Hawaii Football stadium get left out

  • @octavius9685
    @octavius9685 6 дней назад

    Crazy how Texans are proud of being "free" and "less regulation" but cant even build a damn HS football stadium thats safe, let alone those cardboard houses...

  • @troyarrington5492
    @troyarrington5492 25 дней назад +3

    The Miami marine stadium was in a video game. But I can’t remember which one 🤔

    • @MBG141
      @MBG141 20 дней назад +1

      That would be Driv3r (Driver 3) in the Miami level. It's surprisingly not in GTA Vice City. Hopefully it's in GTA VI!

  • @BradyKaynee
    @BradyKaynee 7 дней назад

    And Kemper Arena is where the fatal accident of Owen Hart happened.

  • @stevenbauer4799
    @stevenbauer4799 28 дней назад +3

    Richfield coli. ohio. Built for cavs wha nhl played there. Built so far away from cleveland it should have had a pennsylvania address.

    • @JBM425
      @JBM425 24 дня назад

      Wrong. It should have had a Canton or Akron address. It was built to the south/southwest of Cleveland, not to the east.

  • @Godzillajeff
    @Godzillajeff 7 дней назад

    That Levi stadium Qin California is UGLY.

  • @haraldgrundetjern2184
    @haraldgrundetjern2184 29 дней назад

    Deutsches Stadion shold be on this list, and we shold be tankful that it was never built

    • @BuildingTales
      @BuildingTales  29 дней назад

      Haven't heard of that one, I'll definitely look into it!

  • @PeaceToAll-sl1db
    @PeaceToAll-sl1db 23 дня назад +3

    some crazy projects on the list
    Don't forget to vote for Donald Trump for President

    • @bradleyminoski2020
      @bradleyminoski2020 13 дней назад +1

      No thanks pal. I want a actual competent person running things!!!

    • @PeaceToAll-sl1db
      @PeaceToAll-sl1db 12 дней назад

      @@bradleyminoski2020 kamala harris is a fool - she has the vote of the DEI, the racists and the ignorant