You may well be right. But at this point, the upper deck is an eyesore, too few people sit there, and the press area is very much lacking. It doesn’t even need to be a completely finished product on the “inside” at first. Suites that go unsold go unfinished. But that’s probably chump change in the grand scheme. It could be worse I suppose. We could just demo the upper deck and “FIU” the deal, just putting the press under tents . 🤪
Honestly. I think most fans don't really care about all of the bells and whistles of a new stadium. The eyesore/pressbox must be replaced. Maybe throw in a few suites for the revenue. Some new restrooms would be nice. Get the rest of the place up to code.
Nothing else really needs to be done.
Pretty much agree. Phases: (1) Demo and rebuild press box and suites. Having a club level there really shouldn’t cost that much more in the grand scheme. Do it right “structurally”.
(2). Re-do seats on lower west side to meet code requirements. I suspect the lower concourse could be done at same time.
I don’t have numbers in front of me, but I thought the upper deck sat between 5-8 thousand. South end zone captures those seats to keep us around 30-32 thousand. We’d lose a few more seats when lower west side is redone down the road.
Just get on with it already!
Get rid of the temporary awful private seating located on the concourse of the first level. I recall many years ago seeing something similar at ULMOST. Thought it was ridiculous. Our version even worse.
It will absolutely be done in “phases.” But let’s be honest about what “phases” means. They will do a stripped down 1st phase press box, and they will do nothing else for at least another 20 years.
So if by instant gratification you mean completing this thing before half of us are dead, then yeah, I guess we do want instant gratification.
Its easy Maryland stadium is the way to go. If you have to add seats just add them to the visitor side like Maryland. Nice horseshoe stadium with luxury box and suites on the home side
Your last sentence is the issue. Now there are potential ways around it but I don't think there is an architech/structural engineer in their right mind who would propose building anything integral to the existing structure. You woul literally have to find a way to work around the existing infrastructure.
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