The pit will soon give way to the steel.
Patrick Freeman was appointed chair of the New Stadium Community Inclusion Task Force – one of the first of its kind to oversee the expanding of access and opportunities for disadvantaged small businesses that are interested in participating in the construction and operation of a new stadium.
The part of the new Buffalo Bills stadium construction project that will make it look like an actual stadium is taking shape will soon get underway.
Structural steel is close to being ready to go up nine months after work first began on the $1.7 billion project in Orchard Park.
A ceremony next week will mark the hanging of a 22-foot, 1,225-pound steel beam signed by local and state officials and workers on the job, who were honored Friday during a stop by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
That will mark a new phase of the stadium construction work, one that will cause steel beams to soon rise above the surface of what now looks like a big hole in the ground on Abbott Road, across the street from the current facility.
The concrete that sets the stage to build the steel frame has been poured, allowing hundreds of workers to soon start on the skeleton of the stadium.
That new phase will take at least a year to complete, with the canopy for the…
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