They REALLY think they're gonna get taxpayer funds and tax breaks for this.

Fuck ALL that. Pay for it yourselves, cheapasses.

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  2. I’m just wondering where the fans will sit?

    It’s either nose bleeds suites or 100 level

  3. I know these aren’t the first, or likely even final renderings, but this stadium just bums me out. Seems cookie-cutter and charmless, doesn’t seem to represent the Bears or Chicago in any meaningful way. Just a generic new stadium that could be plopped anywhere.

  4. Viagra won’t help me with this bad stadium porn. I’m not even sure an injection or pump with some sexy talk will get it done. Northwestern is a smokeshow compared to this.

  5. Why cant someone with some sense be in the room to tell them that stadium is giga ass

  6. Stadium sucks. When you see shit like SoFi getting built then we have this generic POS it really sucks

  8. Is there something unique about this stadium vs the other modern stadiums being build? It appears to be a generic modern stadium.

  9. The bears do not need to move for the most generic stadium in the NFL that seats 60,000.

  10. Holy shit… 65,000 seats? That’s it?!

    I’m not too fussed over these early renderings, a lot can and will change before they finalize the plan, but to only plan for 65,000? All this just to add 3,500 seats? That’s absurd.

    They don’t need to go up to 80,000 like Met Life, but if you’re going to build something completely new, and move out to the suburbs where the footprint of the building won’t matter so much, it’s incomprehensible that they’d build something that seats under 70,000.

    For fucks sake, the original Soldier Field held over 74,000!

  12. A 60,000 fan NFL stadium.

    This is the stadium the Winnipeg Jets would build if they were an NFL team.

    I still can’t believe they’ll make a college stadium that holds 100,000 people in the middle of some podunk state, but for a pro team in a city of like, 7 million people, you’re going to make it 60?

    Like, WTF.

  18. I love how the rendering just ignores the 50,000 parking spots that people are clamoring for.

  19. If corporate entities want public funding, they should have to split any profit made from that funding with the city/state.

    You want 1/3 of your stadium funded by taxpayers? Cool, 33% of profits go back to the public.

    Stop handing billionaires even more billions of dollars for simply existing.

  20. so its not only ugly…but small….fml. why is it always the bears fans that get kicked down

  21. 60k seats?? Last year it was said to be 65k seats. Am I missing something lol?🤔

  22. This is a joke and a dead-on arrival.

    6.6 Billion for an NFL stadium come the F on. It can’t pay for itself at that price. There are not that many stadium acts.

    4.3 billion for mixed used shops? GTFO, Woodfield is 10 minutes down the road. There are already 100+ screens within a 20 minute drive. All of the destination retail is already in place. The area is saturated in retail. And look at Patroits place and Hollywood Park to see how not a big deal either really are.

    The new Buffalo stadium is the new bench mark in tax payers getting no lubed. That was 850 million towards the stadium. The Bears want more than that from tax payeres for “infrastructure”.

    And then of course we gett to economic impact 1.3 billion. A number pulled straight out of someone’s ass. 9000 permanent jobs another BS number.

    Edit- The numbers for the stadium and Bearsville are wrong. It looks to be closer to 6 billion for everything with no specific number attached to the stadium. I still stand by everything I said above. NFL stadiums are horriable deals.

  23. With it being a lot tougher to get public funds nowadays, I think most of the new stadiums will be smaller than in the past.

    TV money is what drives the league financially anyway.

  27. I was hoping for Bear Den vibes kinda how like US Bank looks like a freaking Viking vessel and is overall awesome.

    This rendering absolutely blows and is embarrassing if they follow through with it. Sucks the soul out of the franchise

  28. 60,000? What a clown franchise. This thing will be obsolete by the time it gets built.

  29. Kevin Warren have also made it clear they want to host a superbowl here, it’s so lacking of any character in both location and design I think it’s unappealing for a host city. It’s going to be a one-and-done (if that) host

  30. These impact reports are insane but all of them are. I wish I could find the one for the Lucas Museum because that was a duzzy.

    My favorite part has to be the annual event projections of 370 events a year. It breaks down to 10 Bears games, 2 CFB games, 1 International Soccer Match, 8 concerts, 1/3 major event (SB, B1GCG etc), 1/2 combat sport event, and 2 High School games. And of course 350 Private Events and Tours.

    The Ravens where recently bragging about selling suits for Fantasy Football Drafts for a 1000. To give you an idea what Private Events actually look like.

    The Rendering of “Bearsville” does not do the project justice. Its 300,000 sq ft of retail or the size of 2 costcos or smaller than most “Lifestyle Centers”.

    The office portion is 200,000 SF which in reality is good for about 200-500 office workers yet the Bears expect 5000+

    Here are the two impact reports, one the team and one the village.

    https://cms2.revize.com/revize/arlington/Departments/Planning%20&%20Community%20Development/Developments%20&%20Projects/Arlington%20Park%20Project/Arlington%20Park%202025/HR&A%20Arlington%20Heights%20Economic%20Impact%20July%202025.pdf?t=202509301045420&t=202509301045420

    https://cms2.revize.com/revize/arlington/Departments/Planning%20&%20Community%20Development/Developments%20&%20Projects/Arlington%20Park%20Project/Arlington%20Park%202025/Hunden%20Summary%20of%20Economic%20Impact%20%209-28-25.pdf?t=202509301044580&t=202509301044580

  31. Tell them to fuck off and sell if they can’t afford to build a new stadium. The NFL isn’t leaving Chicago, the public owns all the leverage.

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