Memorial Stadium: Troy Dannen Provides Renovation Updates
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No, they changed the order and priority of what they were going to do.
Out with making South Stadium more habital for the plebes who sit there and In with giving the well-monied in West Stadium more chances to spend their money.
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Here's a lot more on the stadium renovation from Dannen.
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As a former Jayhawk, I've been keeping track of the rebuild of the West and North sections of our football stadium. For those who are interested, here is a link to the three construction cameras that they have going: Cameras
When I first heard them talking about Memorial Stadium, I thought, how hard could it be to knock shit down and build it up if you started demolition immediately after the last game and worked on it from mid-November until the end of August. Watching this process, I've learned that building anything takes way more time than I thought it would. They've been working around the clock on this. There have been times, earlier in the process, that I checked at 10 at night and they had lights on with people working. With all of that being done, you can see that they still have a ton to do, and that's basically only doing half of the stadium.
I have no idea what they plan to do eventually, but they are either going to have to essentially build a new stadium by tearing down a section at a time (east, west, north, south) and having that not used for a season, while getting 75% capacity, or they are going to have to do something similar to what KU did and arrange for our home games to be played at Arrowhead for a season and just go balls to the wall to rebuild the stadium.
When I first heard them talking about Memorial Stadium, I thought, how hard could it be to knock shit down and build it up if you started demolition immediately after the last game and worked on it from mid-November until the end of August. Watching this process, I've learned that building anything takes way more time than I thought it would. They've been working around the clock on this. There have been times, earlier in the process, that I checked at 10 at night and they had lights on with people working. With all of that being done, you can see that they still have a ton to do, and that's basically only doing half of the stadium.
I have no idea what they plan to do eventually, but they are either going to have to essentially build a new stadium by tearing down a section at a time (east, west, north, south) and having that not used for a season, while getting 75% capacity, or they are going to have to do something similar to what KU did and arrange for our home games to be played at Arrowhead for a season and just go balls to the wall to rebuild the stadium.
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