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The Santa Clara City Council has approved a construction contract for the San Francisco 49ers' new stadium that calls on the facility to open in 2014, a year earlier than expected.
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49ers, Construction, Football, Jamie Matthews, Matt Bigler, Mayor Jamie Matthews, NFL, Niners, San Francisco 49ers, Santa Clara, Stadium SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) ? The Santa Clara City Council has approved a construction contract for the San Francisco 49ers? new stadium that calls on the facility to open in 2014, a year earlier than expected.
The contract means the new, 68,500-seat facility would be ready by August 2014, meaning the franchise that started in San Francisco in 1946 could be gone in two years.
?It?s a very exciting and important step towards making the stadium a reality,? said Santa Clara Mayor Jamie Matthews. ?And by approving this contract it will ensure that we?ll have it done by 2014, so football will be played in Santa Clara in 2014.?
The contractor, Turner-Devcon, has an incentive to finish the project early. If the stadium is ready at least a week before the first exhibition game 2014, it will get a $5 million bonus.
However, Turner-Devcon would be fined $6 million for each 49ers game missed after that deadline, plus daily fines that could hit $20 million, according to the newspaper.
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Hopefully the rush job will keep safety first? We don?t want shoddy workmanship and inspections as many government jobs seem to have.
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