New Highmark Stadium is open. Look inside Josh Allen's new Bills' home

Open for business.

The Buffalo Bills officially cut the ribbon on the new Highmark Stadium on June 23, paving the way for the building to see its first regular season NFL game in the fall. Josh Allen and Co. will take their first meaningful snaps in the new stadium on Sept. 17, when the Bills welcome the Detroit Lions to town in Week 2 on "Thursday Night Football."

Jeff Uveino from the Democrat & Chronicle, part of the USA TODAY Network, got a behind-the-scenes look at the completed stadium.

Take a look:

An open-air 60,000-seat stadium that came with a price tag of about $2.1 billion, new Highmark Stadium bucks the trend in the current NFL landscape. In recent years, it has become more common for teams to build domes to combat weather and position their city to host a Super Bowl.

That won't be the case for Buffalo, barring something unforeseen, but the goal of creating a hostile road environment for NFL teams remains.

New Highmark Stadium is reminiscent of European soccer stadiums both in terms of design and intent. A building that mirrors Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, the Bills are doing everything they can to trap the noise without eliminating the weather advantage.

Hanging over the upper level is a canopy that is meant to trap the noise, without needing a full roof. NFL fans are certainly familiar with the impact those canopies can have on noise. Look no further than the Seattle Seahawks' Lumen Field, which has been one of the toughest road environments for years.

New Highmark has some big shoes to fill: it remains to be seen whether "Bills Mafia" can replicate what it had at the old home.

The concourses might be wide and the building might be state-of-the-art, but old Highmark had the look and feel of an old dive bar. Fans were right on top of the action to the point that snowballs would fly at opposing teams late in the season.

With premium seating and clubs scattered throughout, it may be a different feel when the Bills play in a new home for the first time in 53 years.