It’s called “ trying to invent an NFL venue without the support from the financial backers because you don’t know how to sell it”. The whole thing is necessary to combat the decrease in attendance but they have gone about it all wrong
Construction costs are high right now. Everybody is doing lots of work and materials are at an all time high. Everybody is overcharging because they can. Eventually the bubble will burst again and everything will be cheaper again. They really should wait until we have another recession.
That would be excellent, but I'm not sure how that would work with the angle needed for escalators coming from the upper deck.
Maybe a sky bridge from the old First National bldg downtown, to the west upper deck. Like they have in Gatlinburg.
Might not have the room for it. Granted once you get to a certain height you can put things like restrooms under them. You only need 6'8" clearance underneath them, but the escalators would still take up a lot of space.
It is overcompensating. It's overcompensating for the fact that you can't expand the stadium and fill the seats. And maybe that's where we are headed... we aren't going to be able to fill the seats. Frankly, we don't now. But for the most part, Alabama can bring in 100,000 folks to watch a game. Auburn cannot. Mississippi State couldn't even come close. So, they spend their dollars in other ways, and one of those ways is massive scoreboards. Texas did it too, even with a massive stadium, because of how it was built. I just think retrofitting one was going to look absolutely awful.
Believe those are part of the second phase of the BDS renovation.
Bingo. Apparently some of the bigger donations have been earmarked for a certain sport rather than going just to the Crimson Standard project.
