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Posted: January 18, 2008
Merritt & Harris selected as construction consultant for stadium
Merritt & Harris, Inc. has been selected as the construction consultant firm for the New Meadowlands Stadium for the National Football League's New York Giants and New York Jets.
The 82,500 seat, 2.2 million s/f stadium, which is scheduled to open in time for the 2010 season, is the most recent project for the M & H Sports Group, which has consulted on 26 professional facilities since its inception in 1987, including the University of Phoenix Stadium (NFL's Arizona Cardinals), New Busch Stadium, (MLB's St. Louis Cardinals) and Lincoln Financial Field (NFL's Philadelphia Eagles).
Other current projects for the M & H Sports Group include Citi Field, the future home of the New York Mets, the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Tex., and the N.J. Devils' Prudential Arena in Newark, scheduled to open in October of this year.
Merritt & Harris, Inc. has been providing construction consulting services to real estate lenders, institutional owners, bondholders, sports authorities, and investors since 1937, providing analyses and monitoring for more than 1,000 projects in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean in the past five years alone.
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