Auckland will never get a new stadium - there is too many rich pricks with investments attached to Eden Park. The bureaucracy attached to building a new stadium will kill the dream.
The only way Wellington is getting a new one is if the current circle thing falls over.
Is retrofitting the cake tin with a roof a cheaper option that knocking it down and starting again?
I remember reading that the stadium isn’t structurally sound enoto support a roof (a decision they made when they built it), and so any roof would have to be a free standing object, costing $100 M.
Forsyth Barr cost $200M, so if you wanted a smaller stadium, of say 15,000-20,000, which is big enough for the Phoenix, Lions, concerts, and the hurricanes (if it’s closer to 20) , the cost would probably be a bit closer to the $100M mark.