The last scheduled event at Candlestick
was a concert on August 14, 2014 by Paul McCartney, and is where the Beatles gave
their final last concert 48 years earlier almost to the day. The Park was originally built for San
Francisco’s baseball team the Giants and was the home field to the 49ers from
1971 to 2013.
The demolition process for Candlestick
is being done with precision piece by piece.
Larry Thomas of Silverado Contractors, the company hired to do the
demolition said, “It’s a little trickier than wrecking a building.” He explained that wreckers do not have a lot
of experience wrecking stadiums as compared to buildings. To keep the dust and debris from polluting
the surround neighborhood, they are using mechanical wreckers rather than
wrecking balls or dynamite. The well-used
orange plastic stadium seats (some were sold to fans for $649 a pair) will be
ground up and recycled.
Candlestick Park was built in 1960 for
a cost of $32 million and the new Levi 49ers Stadium that opened in fall 2014 cost
$1.2 billion. Even though the total
seating capacity for the new stadium (68,500 Levi – Candlestick Park 69,900) is
less, Levi Park has 9,000 premium club seats and 165 luxury suites. According to the San Francisco 49ers
website, a new shopping, housing and entertainment development is scheduled to
be constructed in place of the old stadium.
Source:
sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Candlestick-Park-disappearing-piece-by-piece-6062980.php
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