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My brother in law is an architectural engineer in Boston. Originally from the KC area. He says the teams aren’t bullshitting about concrete being an issue.
Says venues like Fenway and Wrigley are fairly easy to update to modern standards for things like tensile strength because you can simply swap out I-beams or reinforce trusses, etc.
Concrete, which was used heavily in the 60’s-80’s, does not maintain its strength over time the same way steel does and is extremely hard do replace in complex design systems like Kauffman and Arrowhead.
He says they could be steel reinforced but the costs to do so would likely be so astronomical that they wouldn’t make sense over just building anew.
His words “inspections will begin to fail, and upkeep will be too expensive to justify staying there, and I’m guessing they’re close to that point already.”
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