Aloha Stadium in Hawaii was long considered the spiritual home of the Pro Bowl.For close to four decades, between 1980 and 2016, the NFL‘s best took a trip to Halawa for the annual exhibition game.Aloha Stadium hosted the NFL’s Pro Bowl for more than three decadesGettyThe striking orange bowl, which seated 50,000 in its day, became an iconic football setting in the western suburb of Honolulu.It was also home to the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Rainbow Warriors team, and hosted numerous college bowl games.But after 45 years of action, Aloha Stadium was closed in December 2020, amid financial issues caused by the Covid pandemic. By that time, it was plagued by maintenance issues and said to be in need of $30 million in repairs.Instead of putting that money up, the Aloha Stadium Authority stated the building would cease fan-attended operations, and the Rainbow Warriors moved back to campus.Come 2029, though, and spectators are expected back to the iconic Halawa site.Fresh details of Hawaii stadium revealed in rendersA New Aloha Stadium and entertainment district will be built in the footprint of the 98-acre site, where the condemned building currently sits.The project is set to cost around $650m. Taxpayers are expected to put up $350m, and the remaining $300m will be covered by the developer and other private entities.While the original stadium seated 50,000 fans, the new venue will be smaller.Initial plans suggested a limited capacity of 22,500, which came as a worry to state lawmakers.New images shown to state senate committees last week, though, provided an exciting update.View Tweet: https://twitter.com/hashtag/HawaiiFB?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwPlans now call for 31,000 seats with luxury boxes and ‘club-level seating’ — the latest design also leaves room for capacity to grow by another 10,000.“We thought it was very important for our legislative body to get a taste of what we’re planning,” Kaloa Robinson of Aloha Halawa District Partners told members from three state senate committees, per a report from Hawaii News Now.State senator Glenn Wakai suggested the new stadium will be ‘a very different experience for fans’ in the future.The University of Hawaii football team will be Aloha’s main tenant, but senators believe the project will attract pro teams as well.It’s hoped the United Soccer League could play future fixtures there, while major league rugby has also been touted.Wakai even revealed that the Los Angeles Rams have expressed interest in playing an NFL preseason game at the stadium, once it’s built.The Rams could make a return to Hawaii to play in the new Aloha StadiumGettyThe team played at the old Aloha Stadium, against the Dallas Cowboys in 2019, just over a year before it closed.When could the new Hawaii stadium open?Before the new arena can be built, the old stadium must be knocked down.Demolition work formally began last December, and is expected to take about nine months. The building is set to be dismantled ‘piece-by-piece’.Construction work on the new stadium is expected to begin later this year, but the opening date — for 2029 — has been pushed back.NFL Stadium StatusChicago Bears – $5bn efforts to keep Bears in Chicago fall through as team announce plans to build new stadium across stateCM Punk accuses Bears owners of ‘straight greed’ and calls for team to be sold over Indiana relocationKansas City Chiefs – $4bn Arrowhead move hits ‘high stakes’ snag with radical soccer-style stadium proposedKansas City announce major update on new $3 billion stadium designJacksonville Jaguars – Jags set for 150-mile relocation to 90-year-old arena as $1.4bn stadium project beginsJaguars have Super Bowl ambition to replace cruise ships with Shad Khan’s state-of-art $1.4bn stadium makeoverCleveland Browns – Pat McAfee raves at Browns’ NFL-first design masterpiece in new $2.4bn stadiumCavaliers and Guardians stadium plans in trouble as Browns $2.4bn relocation causes Cleveland chaosTennessee Titans – New $2.1bn NFL stadium splits opinion ahead of Titans moving out of 27-year home$25m piece falls into place for Titans’ new $2.2bn stadium ahead of grand unveilingLawmakers were initially hopeful for a March 2029 competition, but that has been delayed by at least five months.At last week’s briefing, state senator Donna Mercado Kim voiced worries the project would ‘not come to fruition’ at all.“You keep telling people yes, we’re going to get this stadium, knowing all the well — and I’ve told it to some of our neighborhood boards — there’s a lot of moving parts that right now, that project may not come to fruition,” she said via Hawaii News Now.Lead developer Stanford Carr, though, remains optimistic that the private funding will be raised and the project will go ahead.The old Aloha Stadium had a 50,000 capacity but was condemned in 2020GettyThe new Aloha would be half the size of the previous stadiumX @NFL_DovKleiman“I’ve told you before, I won’t put my name to a stadium that I’m not willing to autograph and that we can all be proud of,” he told lawmakers.Plans for the new Aloha Stadium are ambitious and evolving, and if the project goes ahead as planned, Pro Bowl football could one day return to Hawaii.Stay up to date with the latest from the NFL across all platforms – follow our dedicated talkSPORT USA Facebook page and subscribe to our talkSPORT USA YouTube channel for all the news, exclusives, interviews and more.