Bloomberg said that unbeknownst to him, Giuliani had inserted a clause in this deal which loosened the teams' leases with the city and would allow the Yankees and Mets to leave the city on 60 days' notice to find a new home elsewhere if the city backed out of the agreement. Michael Bloomberg, who succeeded Giuliani as mayor in 2002, called the former mayor's agreements " corporate welfare" and exercised the escape clause in the agreements to back out of both deals, saying that the city could not afford to build new stadiums for the Yankees and Mets. Business officials criticized the plan as giving too much money to successful teams with little reason to move to a different city. The teams would keep 96% of ticket revenues and 100% of all other revenues, not pay sales tax or property tax on the stadium, and would get low-cost electricity from the state of New York. The plan also said that the teams would be allowed to keep all parking revenues, which state officials had already said they wanted to keep to compensate the state for building new garages for the teams. Of $1.5 billion sought for the stadiums, city and state taxpayers would pick up half the tab for construction, $800 million, along with $390 million on extra transportation. Shortly before leaving office in December 2001, he announced "tentative agreements" for both the New York Yankees and New York Mets to build new stadiums. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani had already been instrumental in the construction of taxpayer-funded minor league baseball facilities MCU Park for the Mets' minor league Brooklyn Cyclones and Richmond County Bank Ballpark for the Staten Island Yankees. The Yankees also considered moving to the West Side of Manhattan, which was where the proposed West Side Stadium would later be considered for the New York Jets and the city's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Yankees ownership allegedly planned to move the team across the Hudson River to New Jersey. New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner began campaigning for the building of a new stadium in the 1980s, even alleging unsafe conditions around the original Yankee Stadium despite the possibility that such statements could discourage attendance at his own team's games. 2.2 Field dimensions and playing surface.Also controversial was the price tag of $1.5 billion, which makes it not only the most expensive baseball stadium ever built, but the third most expensive stadium of any kind (after Wembley Stadium in London and MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey). Replacement ballfields, slated to open when the new stadium did, have not been completed. The stadium was built on what had been 24 acres (97,000 m 2) of public parkland. Although stadium construction began in August 2006, the project of building a new stadium for the Yankees is one that spanned many years and faced many controversies. Much of the stadium incorporates design elements from the previous Yankee Stadium, paying homage to the Yankees' history. The first regular season game was played on April 16, a 10–2 Yankee loss to the Cleveland Indians. The first game at the new Yankee Stadium was a pre-season exhibition game against the Chicago Cubs played on April 3, 2009, which the Yankees won 7–4. The ballpark opened April 2, 2009, when the Yankees hosted a workout day in front of fans from the Bronx community. The new ballpark was constructed across the street, north-northeast of the 1923 Yankee Stadium, on the former site of Macombs Dam Park. It serves as the home ballpark for the New York Yankees, replacing the previous Yankee Stadium, built in 1923. Yankee Stadium is a stadium located in The Bronx in New York City. For the original stadium formerly located across the street, see Yankee Stadium (1923). This article is about the stadium that opened in 2009.
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