ABOUT RED BULL ARENA

Red Bull Arena will be the benchmark in North American soccer landscape and set the standard for other soccer venues across the continent. The state-of-the-art soccer-specific facility, located in Harrison, New Jersey, is the new home of the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer (MLS).

Red Bull Arena has a number of unique elements that will make it the premiere North American soccer venue. Key to the design is the way the arena is structured to create atmosphere as fans in the front row will be just 21 feet from the touchlines. In addition, the main concourse will be 26-feet high, eliminating the majority of field-level entryways. This will give Red Bull Arena's seating bowl a very compact, close-to-the-action feeling.

Also key to the design is its dynamic form roof—a curving structure that wraps the entire arena in an elegant metal shell. The unique stadium roof design, which will create a distinguished identity and unique atmosphere for Red Bulls fans, will extend from its leading edge over the entire seating bowl and then curve down to the concourse, creating the dominate architectural statement of power and elegance. The roof will extend 120 feet from the last seat to just over the field's touchlines, with 60 feet of the roof being translucent, letting in natural light.

And Red Bull Arena will have unique media seating. Members of the media will be up close to capture the atmosphere and action as they will be seated in the lower bowl, directly behind the player benches. Set to accommodate 100 media members, the seating will be placed in a section at midfield with access to the main media workroom, located at field level underneath the media seating and near team locker rooms. An additional media area will be located on the 5th level, which will also include three television broadcast booths and three radio booths.

The overall seating capacity for soccer matches at Red Bull Arena will be 25,000, including 30 Skyboxes (20 lower level and 10 upper level) and 1,000 club seats. Other amenities include three arena clubs and two retail outlets. The skybox and club seating areas will be located on the west side of the field and each location will have access to their own private club areas.

The arena's updated design was completed by Rossetti Architects of Los Angeles, CA. New Jersey-based Hunter Roberts Construction Group, LLC, is the project's construction manager and general contractor.