Parking does not need to be directly next to the stadium. Look at colleges in the SEC. Many you have to park, and heaven forbid, walk or use public transportation for a few cit blocks. Put some decent parking close to the stadium, then the rest can use other city lots and hopefuly an expanded light rail to get to the game. How about we tailgate throughout the city, not just next to the stadium?

I believe the Ohio Basin or Perry Projects is the best option if we ever get a new stadium, as it has the best access from the 190, is the closest to the city, and will help spur future development along South Park and in the Cobblestone. (how about move the field house to the projects and then have the stadium next to a rewatered Ohio Basin?

All you people advocating this - would you be willing to have millions in tax moneys build the stadium even if the Bills won't sign a lease to play in it? If we start building a stadium now, there's no guarantee there will be an NFL team here to occupy it when construction is completed. Wouldn't that be just brilliant.

As Carlmalone and Biniszkiewicz said, a new stadium is NOT something the Bills or the NFL are pushing for, or even willing to discuss at this point. The franchise here is in trouble because there's a growing gap between the corporate wealth in metro Buffalo and WNY vs. that of the top say 30 or so metro areas in the U.S. Even metros such as Cincinatti, Celveland, and Green Bay/Milwakee/Apleton are simply having a lot more corporations lining up to buy boxes than is happening here. If there were more of a market for corporate boxes that wasn't being met, then a new stadiums could make sense. But that's not the case.

Flyguy is way off base in his claims that Buffalo's market size is not a big problem. Even teams much crappier than the Bills (yes, there are some) are attracting corporate revenues much greater than what the Bills do. If it makes anyone feel better to deny that Buffalo has much fewer Fortune 500 and 1000 companies than other NFL markets, well great enjoy your denial.

From wikipedia:

Cincinnati is home to major corporations such as Procter & Gamble, The Kroger Company, GE Aviation, Macy's, Inc. (owner of Macy's and Bloomingdale's), Convergys, Chiquita Brands International, Great American Insurance Company, Western & Southern Financial Group, The E. W. Scripps Company, the United States Playing Card Company (located in Norwood), and Fifth Third Bank. Kao Corporation's United States headquarters are in Cincinnati as well. Comparatively-speaking, the region fares well nationally with 10 Fortune 500 companies and 18 Fortune 1000 companies headquartered in the Cincinnati area.

I think Buffalo has 1 in F500 (M&T bank). ten for Cinic, one for Buffalo. And in F1000, maybe 2 or 3 in Buffalo, 18 in Cinci.

That's just Cinci, now imagine the Dallases, Houstons, and Altantas - and even the Seattles and St Louses and Charlottes. This is the problem.

The Bills planned emphasis on Toronto will hopefully improve the situation, but it will take a year or two to find out.

The next owner, whoever that is (and hopefully it's somebody who at least wants to try keeping the team in Buffalo), will eventually have to make the hard decision of whether to try upgrading the current stadium or to consider a new stadium. That owner might be willing to take a big long term risk and make a committment here, and that might or might not involve accepting some debt for a new stadium. That person will want a big say in matters such as stadium size, type and site. Rightly so.

As with many other things, what would help is if WNY and upstate could start attracting coprorate growth here. Oh hey, I know - maybe a new convention center would make companies want to locate here! Where does everyone think it should be? Can anyone draw some maps?

I personally like the Philadelphia system (yes we could use philadelphia as a model) where they have the football stadium, baseball diamond, hockey arena, and basketball arena all in a large square. Parking is inbetween and along all sides. Many people here are correct to point out that there is not enough money IN BUFFALO to pay for all of the corporate suites but I am sure between Northern Ohio, Western PA, WNY, Rochester, and Southern Ontario/Toronto you could find enough people. I am also quite sure that Albany would do whatever it had to to keep such a large tax base in NY, being the state's only Football team...

I THINK THAT ANY DISCUSSION OF A BILLS STADIUM SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM THE WATERFRONT AND THE COBBLESTONE DISTRICT!!!! THESE DISTRICTS HAVE TO MUCH POTENTIAL AND VALUE FOR A PART TIME USE BLANK WALL FACILITY.

If there is a waterfront location then consider Lackawanna...it has more than enough brownfields that could be converted into parking lots plus highway access and it could easily be connected by rail and light rail.

but the section of Buffalo that lets face it needs a stadium is the eastside...so anywhere between the Larkin District and the Central Terminal is going to provide a significant impact to the redevelopment of the near eastside and it could easily be connected by rail and light rail. Perhaps a Bills Stadium could be linked to a merger between Buffalo and Lackawanna as part of a multimillion dollar development project that Lackawanna would not want to refuse.

The only thing deserving of a location adjacent to the water is a convention/conference/hotel center and even that should be at the southern end of the cobblestone district at a rewatered Ohio Basin so it is not prematurely obsoleted by development obstructing future growth and expansion.

Other than that, Buffalo has to think longterm and think about what areas have natural development value and which areas do not. Areas such as the eastside and areas such as Lackawanna would benefit from a stadium. The westside, northside, downtown and the cobblestone district already have large historical areas with natural development potential...to build a stadium there would be to refuse a future office building, museum, industrial site, etc.

What about the Elmwood Village? Seriously is this an exercise in futility. Have I missed something or are they going to build a new stadium. Just as a fyi: I don't think so.

The National Football League is in the business of making money. As we live in a capitalistic society, this tends to make perfect sense, but the choise of locations doesn't anymore. Two words: corporate boxes. Two more words: unsold here

If it were to somehow happen: Part of my thoughts would be to use it for UB Bulls home games also. Connect it to the metro rail (along with UB north)

Are you sure that the scale remained the same when you PLOPPED the Ralph into the fantasy sites?

i will.

just kidding :)

unless they discover some new form of attraction, football will continue to be a big draw. I don't think any of your locations are worth building and its not because of parking availability but continuity and purpose.

I know its going to sound silly but i like the idea of surrounding the stadium with a few wind mills. It would create some kind of income when the stadium was not in use and send the right message, they could light them up for the games and use them with the regular stadium lights. (they could be architectural)

Design something like heinz field and give the fans a view of the water on one end and the connecting bridge to the inner harbor/main street on the other. Put it right where the ice boom is.It would not need to be as wide as the ralph because it would be taller. They could expand the canal concept and provide people with a mixture of well groomed plazas,docks and all connected to the metro for post game bar action.

Home field advantage would take on a whole new meaning and i like the amount of respect our fans have always shown. If they can just get that spirit back into buffalo. We don't need to have something used all the time to have it be important, who goes to the art gallery every day?