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| Heinz Field, Home of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh, PA |
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Heinz Field primarily serves as the home to the Pittsburgh Steelers and University of Pittsburgh Panthers football teams. The stadium opened in 2001, after the controlled implosion of the teams' previous stadium, Three Rivers Stadium.
The stadium is named for locally based H. J. Heinz Company, which purchased the naming rights in 2001. Funded in conjunction with PNC Park, the $281 million stadium stands along the Ohio River, on the Northside of Pittsburgh. The stadium was designed with the city of Pittsburgh's history of steel production in mind, which led to the inclusion of 12,000 tons of steel into the design. |
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Kansas City-based HOK Sport designed the stadium. The Rooney family asked that the stadium's design "acknowledge the history of Pittsburgh and also bring in an element of looking forward, this is where Pittsburgh is going." In order to accomplish this, HOK used steel structurally and externally. The stone used in Heinz Field's design is artificial, in order to decrease cost. |
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