not sure how i feel about this...

BRONX (AP) The New York Yankees are expected to announce plans for a new $800 million dollar ballpark, which would be built next to the current Yankee Stadium in the Bronx and could be ready by the 2009 season.

The team has spent years planning the new stadium, which will have a capacity of at least 50,800. That’s 6,000 seats fewer than the current ballpark. But it could be expanded to about 54,000. It would be constructed in Macombs Dam Park, to the north of the current stadium, and financed by the team.

Yankee Stadium, which opened in 1923, is the third-oldest park in use in the major leagues. It’s younger only than Boston’s Fenway Park (1912) and Chicago’s Wrigley Field (1914). Yankee Stadium was renovated in 1974-75, but the team wants a modern ballpark with more luxury suites.