Venue Detail
New York Red Bulls
RSV Pro Facilities Report
February, 2016
New York Red Bulls
Cape May St. Harrison, NJ 07029 Phone: 201-583-7000 Fax: 201-583-7055 URL: redbull.newyork.mlsnet.com Owner: Red Bull League: Major League Soccer, Eastern Conference
Venue
Red Bull Arena, Cape May St., Harrison, NJ Owner: Red Bull GmbH Managed by: Owner Built: 2010 Capacity: 25,189 Permanent concession stands: 65 Concessionaire: Sportservice Suite caterer: Sportservice Soft drink:
Ticket prices
Season tickets range from $330 to $1,140 Single tickets range from $20.00 to $45.00
Attendance
2013 average attendance: 19,461 2014 average attendance: 19,421 2015 average attendance: 18,888
Suites
Quantity: 30 Price: $65,000 to $100,000 Seats: 13 to 17
Club seats
Quantity: 1,116 Price: $3,045 to $3,045
Financing
The venue was privately financed.
At more than $200 million, the new home of the New York Red Bulls professional soccer team was be the costliest MLS stadium ever built when it opened in March 2010. Austria-based Red Bull GmbH paid for everything.
The energy drink maker designed the 25,000-seat facility along European lines, with an emphasis on getting fans close to the field.
“It will be the premier soccer stadium in America,” MLS Commissioner Don Garber said.
Construction began in December 2007 on the arena just north of Newark's largely Brazilian and Portuguese Ironbound neighborhood, about 10 miles from New York City. The seats circling the playing surface are close to the action for a professional sports venue of its size … just 21 feet to 158 feet away. A partial roof will shield fans from the rain, but leave the natural Kentucky bluegrass playing surface open to the elements. It's also expected to amplify the sound of the home crowd.
For Harrison and its 15,000 residents, Red Bull Arena is the centerpiece of a 250-acre riverfront revitalization effort 12 years in the making. It's been delayed by the recession and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which destroyed the PATH train station beneath the World Trade Center. Harrison can be reached directly from lower Manhattan via the PATH train.
The arena was first discussed a decade ago and scheduled to open in 2008. However, construction was delayed by the extensive cleanup required at the former industrial site, which included a pipe factory, and again by the need for a redesign after Red Bull GmbH bought out its partner in November 2007 and turned the arena into a soccer-only venue.
The mixed-use development project around the arena will produce 7,000 condominium and rental units when it's done, according to Harrison Mayor Ray McDonough, who estimates completion in five years if the economy improves, 10 years if it doesn't. The first 313 units are already finished and sold. Another 476 units have been approved.
Red Bull Arena will be the eighth soccer-only stadium for the 15-team MLS, which started in 1996. The strategy was adopted in 1999 to allow fans to bond with their stadiums much as New York Yankees baseball fans identify with Yankee Stadium and fans of the Manchester United soccer team in England identify with Old Trafford Stadium. (Facilities, Soccer, MLS, Professional Sports, Venue)