Work to prepare the area where a new Buffalo Bills stadium will be built on Abbott Road in Orchard Park is in full swing.
And the early stages of construction are going well, according to Ron Raccuia, Bills executive vice president and COO, mostly because the weather has cooperated over the past few weeks.
There hasn’t been much rain to speak of since the Erie County Legislature gave the $1.54 billion stadium deal the final approval it needed May 4, and work on the site across the street from the current Highmark Stadium immediately got started and hasn’t stopped since.
Raccuia said Wednesday that it will be a “six-day-a-week project” until it is finished. He expects the digging will start in the first week of June, and an official groundbreaking event could also be held around then.
“I know they’re starting to move a lot of dirt,” he said.
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The workforce for the stadium project, expected to be approximately 10,000 strong, is “ramping up,” but it is still early in that process, Raccuia said.
Only the first two sets of bid packages have…
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