Fornebu Arena
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| Fornebu Arena | |
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| Location | Fornebu, Bærum, Norway |
| Broke ground | 2007 |
| Opened | 2009 (scheduled) |
| Owner | Stabæk Fotball |
| Operator | Fornebu Arena A/S |
| Surface | Artificial turf |
| Construction cost | 550 million NOK |
| Architect | HRTB A/S |
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Fornebu Arena is the code name of a new multi-use stadium being constructed at Fornebu in the municipality of Bærum, Norway. It will be used mostly for football matches and will be the new home ground of the football club Stabæk, who currently play at Nadderud stadion. The stadium is scheduled to open ahead of the 2009 season in Norwegian football.
The structure will be a single-tiered bowl attached to a seven-storey building on one side containing retail space, restaurants and bars for the premium-priced seats, executive boxes, and offices. As originally planned, the stadium was to have a retractable roof, but due to the high costs involved it was decided that there would instead be a fixed roof covering both the stands and the pitch. For football matches and other sporting events the total capacity will be approximately 15,000, whereas for concerts it will be up to 23,000.
The Fornebu Arena project has its origins in Stabæk's rapid ascent from the lower divisions of Norwegian football to the top division in the first half of the 1990s. Although several improvements have been made to their current home ground Nadderud stadion since then, including the construction a new main stand in 1996, it remains severely lacking in facilities, and does not meet national requirements for hosting football matches at the highest level. After initially seeking to buy and redevelop Nadderud, which is owned by the municipality, the club started to work towards moving to a new stadium elsewhere in Bærum instead.
In 1999 the club settled on Fornebu, the site of a large urban development project. Lengthy negotiations between the club, the municipality and the area's main developer came to an end in 2005 and the plans gained final approval on June 21, 2006. Demolition of existing structures on site began on February 17, 2007 and construction began shortly after.
The project has an estimated cost of 550 million NOK.
[edit] External links
- (Norwegian) fornebuarena.no - Stadium website
