Whoever the Carolina Panthers’ next owner is, they’re likely to want major upgrades to the team’s stadium – or a new one altogether.
And if they want a new stadium, could one even fit uptown? While any talk of a new stadium is, of course, speculative, it’s hard to miss the fact that uptown is much denser and there’s a lot less land available than when workers broke ground on Bank of America Stadium in 1994.
“It’s premature and it would be speculation,” said Ron Kimble, the former deputy city manager who led negotiations with the Panthers in 2013 for $87.