After a renovation, 95-year-old Forest Hills Stadium reopened in 2013. (Photo: facebook.com/ForestHillsStadium)
Forest Hills Stadium is moving forward with plans to become a year-round venue, and is introducing full-plumbing bathrooms and an automat for food service in the fifth year after its 2013 reopening.
The 95-year-old venue in Queens, N.Y., home to the U.S. Open tennis tournament until 1977, was renovated and reopened as a concert venue and is booked by Madison House Presents through a deal with AEG.
The venue is scheduled this year to host concerts by Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters, Roger Daltrey, Arctic Monkeys, David Byrne with Tune-Yards, and Van Morrison with Willie Nelson.
Forest Hills Stadium is to have a skating rink and holiday vendors in the winter after the concert season, the next step in making it a year-round venue, according to AM New York.
The venue has previously used portable toilets but now will include permanent “gender-inclusive bathrooms” with running water.
The automats are a throwback to the historic venue’s previous use of the hot food dispenser.
Helping in that effort are newly announced founding partners Heineken, American Express, Bulova and Bacardi.
“We are thrilled to have Heineken, American Express, Bulova and Bacardi as our 2018 Founding Partners,” Josh Gold, vice president of AEG Global Partnerships, said in a statement. “These world class brands have seen the vision of what we are building in this historic venue and we couldn’t be happier to welcome them to Forest Hills.”
This story originally ran at Pollstar.com, an affiliated publication.