The $729 million knock-down and rebuild of the Sydney Football Stadium has been thrown into chaos after the NSW government said construction giant Lendlease would not complete the project.Sports Minister John Sidoti said Lendlease had not been able to meet the government's requirements to rebuild the stadium on the Moore Park site on budget by 2022.

"The project budget for Sydney Football Stadium is $729 million which includes stage one [demolition] and stage two [reconstruction] works," Mr Sidoti said."Lendlease’s stage two offer did not meet the government’s expectations so we are looking for another builder in a competitive market."

The government announced in December 2018 that Lendlease was the "construction contractor" for the entire project.Stage one, the demolition of the previous stadium, which opened in January 1988, has been mostly completed.Lendlease on Friday evening released a statement saying they were pleased to have "partnered again with Infrastructure NSW on stage one of the Sydney Football Stadium redevelopment project.""Building social infrastructure in partnership with government is a source of pride for Lendlease and we look forward to supporting future projects,” a Lendlease spokesman said.Labor made the government's stadium policy a major focus of the March state election after polling showed most NSW voters were opposed to the government funding a new stadiumMORE TO COME

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Wilderness for how many years?
Soulless Sydney Olympic Park beckons

Kogarah?

Why TF is this costing so much? Surely EastSydney doesn't need anything bigger than Bankwest or AAMI.

Because it's the SCG Trust trying to get the Rugby Union crowds m maximised.

I was under the impression Union was all but dead

You may be but not Alan 'shithead' jones

Yep, Union has completely given up on trying to colonise the West and pushed for the biggest stadium possible so they could move their biggest games to the East where their fan base are. 

Why am I not surprised?

Kogarah sounds like the new home... 

Borderline criminal they are spending that much on the SFS.
Time to look at some value engineering options.

In Australia? zero value. Maybe in 40-50 years when BIM is insanely advanced but not in the near future.

They should have gone for a return rather than the demolish option. 
ANZ should have a proper rebuild into a proper rectangular stadium rather than what it is now.
Everyone in Sydney, other than Smurf fans, knew it and its a complete schmozzle 

other than 'smurf' fans hahahahaha spike down you melt

Most Sydney fans were against the rebuild too you moron.

Why would Sydney FC fans not want ANZ redeveloped? wtf? It was legit all included in a package with Parramatta and Sydney Football Stadium.

SFC fans want ANZ redeveloped but they wanted Allianz first. The reality is however, there was never enough for 2 rebuilds.

Just send the money to upgrade Newcastle, Campbelltown, central Coast, win and Canberra stadiums

https://www.foxsports.com.au/football/a-league/adam-peacock-should-sydney-fc-consider-making-home-ground-parramatta-once-venue-is-ready/news-story/2af66e1ff98ac5c9169aedd94aed2f6e

They can piss that option off. They should consider Leichhardt or Shark Park.

More bad news for Indy hal, in what will be, like it or not, their most important market (SE Asia aside). 

Tough times ahead.

At worst, it probably only means a one year delay,

$700M+ so certain Wallabies fans don't have to travel to Western Sydney.
Imagine having so much influence.