By Brian Suk
The Buffalo Bills. It’s the NFL team that practically keeps our city alive. And with the new owner of the beloved AFC East Division, Terry Pegula, the talk of the town has been about the future of the Buffalo Bills. The main subject is the case of a new stadium. Many people have been wondering where the new stadium will be and when it will be built and opened.
Some of the ideas are building a new stadium on the former site of the Bethlehem Steel Plant in Lackawanna, NY. Another less-popular idea for the new stadium’s location is on the current site of the the current Buffalo Bills Stadium, Ralph Wilson Stadium, in Orchard Park, NY, built in 1973. The Syracuse, NY-based shopping mall owning company Pyramid, who also owns the Walden Galleria in Cheektowaga, has offered to build the stadium on the former site of the now-demolished Seneca Mall. Buffalo, NY developer Carl Paladino has proposed a location along the Buffalo River at First Ward in South Buffalo. On August 7, 2014, a plan included a new stadium and retail center complex directly to the east of First Niagara Center, the home of the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres.
On November 5, 2014, Terry Pegula said “Well, there’s going to be a new stadium somewhere.” One of Pegula’s goals as owner is to end playing any home games in the large Canadian city of Toronto, Ontario at Rogers Centre. On December 3, 2014, the Toronto Series was officially pronounced dead.
So, while we still don’t know where a new Buffalo Bills Stadium will be, according to Terry Pegula, the project will happen one way or another.
