Thursday, November 20
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - Wider concourses, more restrooms and about 2,000 video screens and monitors will greet football fans at the new stadium being built by the New York Giants and New York Jets.

Team owners John Mara of the Giants and the Jets' Woody Johnson hosted a tour of the facility Thursday. It's about 60 percent done, and both men say the project currently is ahead of schedule and under budget.

The 82,500-seat stadium cost $1.3 billion to build and is scheduled to open in 2010.

Mark Lamping, CEO of the company formed by the two teams to build and operate the stadium, says the new facility will have concourses that are twice as wide as the ones in the existing Giants Stadium, plus twice as many access lanes into the stadium.

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.


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