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Qwest Field Information
The sun shines on the Olympic Mountains. A breeze from nearby Puget Sound drifts across the playing field. The crowd stirs in anticipation of the game. And just before the players take the field, you take a minute to admire one of the finest sports facilities in the nation...Qwest Field.
Qwest Field is located immediately south of Seattle's downtown in the Pioneer Square neighborhood (on the former site of the Kingdome). The open-air facility is configured in a horseshoe shape that is open at the north end, which includes an impressive tower with bleacher seating and a large, vertical scoreboard and large-format video screen. The stadium offers sweeping views of Puget Sound, the Olympic Mountains, the downtown Seattle skyline and Mount Rainier.
The building is constructed of cast-in-place concrete, pre-cast concrete, steel and concrete masonry units. The color scheme and appearance tie together the historic Pioneer Square neighborhood and Safeco Field, the Seattle Mariner's ball park. At the south end, the stadium is connected to Qwest Event Center and a 2,000-car parking garage.
Qwest Field is home to the National Football League's Seattle Seahawks and provides a new venue for attracting major soccer events and luring a Major League Soccer team to Seattle. The facility features:
Open air design with a roof protecting 70 percent of seats.
The field is FieldTurf, an artificial playing surface.
Seating capacity of 67,000 fixed seats with the ability to increase to 72,000.
7,000 club seats and 111 suites, including the NFL's only field-level suites.
1,400 seats for people with disabilities and companions.
Wide concourses offering outstanding views of the Seattle skyline, Safeco Field, Mount Rainier, Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains.
48 concession stands and restaurant seating for 500.
Public art interspersed throughout the interior and exterior.
11 elevators.
63 restroom facilities.
A 2,000 car garage-part of 6,500 parking spaces within a short walk of the stadium.
One executive suite provided to ticket-holders at each Seahawk game, with users determined by a lottery.
10 percent of Seahawk tickets priced at the average lowest ticket price of all NFL teams.
Roof
•760 feet long-the same as three Boeing 747s parked end-to-end
•5,200 tons-about the weight of 1,000 Orca whales
•210,000 square feet-enough to cover 3.5 football fields
Audio/Visual
• 3,756 miles of cable wiring-more than the distance between Seattle and Miami
• 841 televisions
• 80 flat-screen plasma televisions
• 4 large display screens
• 1 large-format video screen on the north tower • Internet connections in all of the suites
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