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Aerial Virtual tour of Qwest Stadium – Seattle

Posted on: July 6, 2009

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Aerial Virtual tour of Qwest Stadium – Seattle

Qwest Field is a multipurpose stadium found in Seattle, Washington, USA.

It serves as the home field for the Seattle Seahawks of the State Soccer League and Seattle Sounders FC of top Soccer. Washington state electorate licensed funding for a new stadium and events center on June seventeen, 1997. Five thousand more can be added for special events. The stadium has a total of 7,000 club seats and 111 suites. There’s also 1,400 seats for fans with incapacities and their companions. The stadium is famously loud during Seahawks games.

The noise has made a contribution to the team’s home field advantage and a rise in fake start penalties against visiting teams. It has hosted the biggest charity soccer game in the country, the Bacon Bowl, between the police departments of Seattle and Tacoma. It was designed with football in mind and the 1st sporting event at the stadium was a USL Seattle Sounders game. The MLS growth team, Seattle Sounders FC, started its opening season with a home game in 2009.

The stadium is also used for trade and patron shows. The complete complicated has 404,000 sq ft of exhibit space. The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Tenzin Gyatso, delivered a 28-minute speech at the stadium on Apr twelve, 2008.

50,817 attended the event which was part of the five-day Seeds of Compassion meeting held in Seattle. The 201,800 sq ft Qwest Field Events Center was built diagonally opposite to the stadium for $70M. The 255,000 sq ft complicated contains 2 exhibition halls, a conference room, and a concourse level. The events center hosts pre-game events for the Seahawks and Mariners. The event center contributes over half a bill greenbacks to the area’s economy.

20 p.c of the exhibition center’s net profits go to the state’s Permanent Common Faculty Fund for public college enhancements.

The events center had formerly been called “the worst venue in town” for concerts but in 2006, AEG Live and First & Goal Inc formed a partnership to create the just branded “WaMu Theater”. The destiny of the name is at present unknown since Washington Mutual has been obtained by JP Morgan Chase.The new theater space is assembled on an as needed basis in the building.

The 104 ft wide stage and other apparatus can be dismantled and stored in the stadium. Panels on the ceiling and a large curtain were installed to boost acoustics.