The Building of Russo Park at Louisiana

[CajunAmos]

We sold out at 4200 with a 3755 seating capacity. I can't imagine why the sell out capacity wouldn't increase as much as the std seating capacity. So if it goes up 800, maybe the sell out is 5000 or so now? I'm not 100% certain on that though.

Also, as HM stated, there will be room for SRO (I think on the decks at the top of the metal bleachers especially.) And very rarely were we at capacity. Really just when hosting postseason or LSU

If you're just looking at numbers, we averaged more than the stadium capacity last year. I don't think there were many (if any) games that we actually had more than 3600 butts in the seats. The proposed 4500 will be good unless you have LSU or regionals being hosted. My thinking is the next capacity increase will happen in the next phase of renovation when they replace the first base bleachers by extending the new grandstand down the first base line, but I wouldn't expect that to be a large increase either. The next after that would be the third base line upgrade.

[Ragin4U]

I emailed The Lemoine co. last Thursday and asked if they could move the cam to give a better view of the project. Looks like today they added a cam. Geaux Cajuns!

Good work!

[Big Buds]

Will someone please explain the construction plan. The 1st & 3rd base seating is being left in place and the only elevated area of the structure is behind home plate. But, look at the rendering. Will this stadium look anything like the rendering? That didn't happen with the APC.

Yes it did...it looks exactly like the final APC rendering.

[wcd35]

Looks like they are pouring concrete near the backstop of the field where the box seats were

[wcd35]

It will look exactly like the rendering. They will build the parts behind the existing metal bleachers after the grandstand steel is up

Just to add to this, based on the last schedule posted here, they aren't supposed to start doing structural steel for the 3rd base platform until December 23. 1st base side will lag a few weeks behind, with a January 16 estimated start date

[HelmutVII]

More stuff happening tonight. To the left of the first construction cam

[cajun tom]

Looks like they are not cutting down the tree between Reinhart and the stadium.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Looks like they are not cutting down the tree between Reinhart and the stadium.

Never expected them to cut it down.

[Big Buds]

Never expected them to cut it down.

Same here. From all the final renderings the trees seemed to be kept.

[HelmutVII]

Looks like the MEP guys got busy today.