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The New Mets Stadium is a planned Major League Baseball Stadium for the New York Mets to be built in Willets Point , Queens , New York as a replacement for Shea Stadium , which currently stands adjacent to the site of the 1964 World's Fair . The creation of the plan for the stadium came after the veto of the plan for the construction of the West Side Stadium and was part of the failed New York City 2012 Olympic Bid , though it will be built despite New York's loss of the Games. The Olympic stadium project was estimated to cost $2.2 billion with $180 million provided by New York City and New York State . Construction is hoped to be finished in time for the 2009 baseball season. The new stadium is planned to have a capacity of 45,000 and have an exterior façade reminiscent of Ebbets Field with an interior that many have stated evokes design features of newer ballparks, most notably Oriole Park At Camden Yards in Baltimore . Projected cost of the new stadium and other infrastructure improvements is $610M, with the Mets picking up $420M of that amount. The agreement includes a 40-year lease that will keep the Mets in New York until 2049. This stadium would be the third stadium the New York Mets would play in over their close to 50 year history. The Mets played the 1962 and 1963 seasons at the Polo Grounds , which had also been the home of the New York Yankees and New York Giants . In addition, the New York Yankees also plan to open a new Yankee Stadium , on opening day 2009. On March 18 , 2006 , the New York Mets unveiled the official model for the new stadium. {Link without Title} The new stadium will not be renamed New Shea Stadium according to the NY Mets. FULL STADIUM FACTS
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