Stadium Expansion
I've heard about the possibility of "bricking" the the north and south ends of the stadium to cover up the steel erector set look and so that the ends of the stadium match the rest of the brick work. I've even seen a rendering of what it would look like.
And of course I've also heard of new scoreboards and the possible addition of roughly 5,000 seats. I can visualize new scoreboards but what are your thoughts on where they would construct the additional seats?
Looking at the aerial photo of the stadium, there appears to be only one access point for each end zone section. What is the possibility of adding an additional concourse along the very top of the ends of the stadium to improve ingress/egress and incorporating the new seats and scoreboards with the concourse?
When it happens, the only logical place to add the seats would be to the endzones. I doubt there would be any need for additional concourses as this would only increase the cost of the project without a real benefit. Somewhere between 10-15 additional rows would add an extra 5k in seats.
When they designed the new structures they designed it with the idea that they would add an upper deck or just go further back in the current bowl in the endzones. Most likely they would add an upper deck in the endzones and when they do this I am sure they would cover the beams of that exterior with brick.
Edit: One other thing I forgot to mention that the design of the new structure also allows them to extend the upper public concourse (that will open this season) around both endzones of the the bowl.
Yikes. I couldn't imagine going further back. The last row is already pretty far from the field due to the bowl design.
Going up would seem the only practical way to do add seating capacity.
I agree and I hope they put and upper deck in each endzone and put it at an angle a better angle than the bowl so more noice is directed towards the field then put the giant new scoreboards on top of those!
The AD already has sketches for a possible stadium expansion
The University of Michigan will embark on a stadium expansion project SO LARGE that it requires them to go to... AN UPPER DECK.
Nah, by then they will be leasing space from Zoltan...in space. Bring your binoculars.
In the year 3000 lady gaga and the goo goo dolls will form the mega band goo goo ga ga.
That would be really great. More people and better acoustics!
On top of the press boxes!!!!
They should have open seating/standing room on the top of the press boxes. I've been thinking that since seeing construction workers watch games from up there.
The four towers (where the stairs and elevators are located) are the only places you can see the field from. The area between the towers has a wall of which prevents a person from seeing the field. The structures were not designed to hold rows of people on the roof.
Could you share with us the rendering of the bricked in endzones?
Or it didn't happen.
I'm adding a new couch, which should seat three more people in my living room (can't have the guys over and have them watching football and rubbing legs with each other or touching each other "accidentally").
I look forward to the classic LEGO hairstyle coming back into fashion.
This is a Lego re-enactment of The Cask of Amantillado by Poe.
a google image search for Cask of Aman... revealed this beauty.
"bricked in" sounds like the farthest thing from adding a state of the art, high visibility, high occupancy, durably finished, quality constructed building to a widely revered 100 year old building that seats over 107,000 people at once.
If they ever added an upper deck to Michigan Stadium, John Pollack would be so pissed.
To the OP: Do you have a link to the rendering of the of the "bricked up" ends that you saw? I'd love to see that.