Several teams are building and\/or trying to build new stadiums. The Broncos are in the \u201ctrying to build\u201d category. <\/p>\n
And the key word is \u201ctrying.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been almost a year since we announced Burnham Yard as our preferred site,\u201d Broncos president Damani Leech told reporters on Sunday. \u201cIt remains our preferred site. We\u2019re laser focused on delivering it by 2031. It\u2019s been a great effort by ownership, ourselves, the staff, the city. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got to be honest, I wish we were further along in some areas than we are now. I think areas where we do control, particularly real estate, you mentioned Burnham Yard, real estate, engaging with the community, we\u2019ve done site tours of the location, the design of the stadium continues to evolve, the master plan continues to evolve. All of those things are moving along really, really well, but we also understand that we can\u2019t do this alone. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere are certain things we don\u2019t control. I think as an example, the community benefits process is something that we can\u2019t control. We\u2019ve had a lot of initial great discussions with community representatives. More recently here, it\u2019s been on more of a staff level. We\u2019re eager to engage with those community members directly, understand what they\u2019re looking for, what needs and interests they have on the development. Things like that, we have to continue to progress. We said many months ago, this is an ambitious timeline, so for that to happen, we need everybody to be involved. We can\u2019t do it alone in order to get to 2031.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leech said opening the stadium by 2031 is \u201cstill achievable for sure,\u201d but that \u201ceverybody has to be involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
Is there frustration with the process?<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be honest, there are days when I have concern,\u201d Leech said, \u201cthere are days when I have frustration because you can\u2019t control it all, so I think that\u2019s fair.\u201d<\/p>\n
On one hand, five years is forever. On the other hand, it\u2019ll fly by. Regardless of where it goes from here, it\u2019s clear that it hasn\u2019t gone the way the Broncos would like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several teams are building and\/or trying to build new stadiums. The Broncos are in the \u201ctrying to build\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-801574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}