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USAT: Titans Wire

Mar 11, 2022

- - - After the plan to renovate Nissan Stadium hit a snag when unforeseen issues arose that doubled the original estimate from $600 million to $1.2 billion, the Tennessee Titans and the city of Nashville shifted their focus to building a brand new stadium. - While speaking at a Metro Sports Authority board meetings on Thursday, Titans president Burke Nihill said the team is moving “wisely but with a sense of urgency” in their attempt to build a new stadium, with Nihill believing the new venue can open by 2026, per The Tennessean. - “We’re trying to move wisely but with a sense of urgency,” Nihill said. “There’s a path forward that, if we have alignment by the fall, we could have a new stadium open (by 2026). It’s aggressive, but we believe it’s in play.” - Nihill noted that striking a deal for a new stadium could take up to a year, and construction would take about two-and-a-half years after that. - The Titans president also went into detail about the downside of Tennessee’s current stadium, which opened in 1999 and was built for $292 million. - “This is a very basic building in the eyes of the NFL,” Nihill said of Nissan Stadium. “This is one of the bottom 20 percent of buildings in the NFL built before 9/11. Security enhancements adopted by the NFL haven’t been added.” - It isn’t exactly clear how much it’ll cost to build a brand new stadium. Recently-built NFL venues such as SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles and Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas cost $5.5 and $1.9 billion, respectively. - We tend to believe it’ll cost somewhere in the ballpark of $2 billion, but that’s just us guessing. If that comes to fruition, building a new venue at that price seems like the better option when considering how much the renovations would ultimately cost. - - RelatedHarold Landry: Titans 'real confident' they can win a Super BowlTitans select CB Trent McDuffie in Bleacher Report mock draftTennessee Titans release running back Darrynton Evans - - List - - 6 TEs Tennessee Titans should target in free agency - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Email - - - - - Sign up - - - - - - - - Like this article? - Sign up for the Titans Wire email newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning - - - - An error has occured - - - Please re-enter your email address. - - - - - - Thanks for signing up! - - - You'll now receive the top Titans Wire stories each day directly in your inbox.

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