February 8th, 2008
You Can’t Buy the Naming Rights, but Call It the Billion-Dollar Ballpark
By Richard Sandomir
The New York Times
The old Yankee Stadium cost Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast Huston $2.5 million to build and $100 million (or so) for the city to rebuild. The cost to replace it is now about $1.2 billion — not $930 million ($830 million and financing) as originally estimated.