OT: Irish Stadium expansion

Submitted by pdxwolve on

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/10369344/notre-dame-fighting-irish-announce-400-million-stadium-expansion

 

$400 mil. to add 4,000 seats and luxury boxes. Now, I know that ND is private, and I'm no engineer, but this renovation cost is nearly double of most renovations, including the recent one at UM.  

So, is NASA building this?

superstringer

January 29th, 2014 at 11:20 AM ^

If it's the part of NASA that has contracts with Boeing and Lockheed, you get a couple toilets for $1M apiece.

If it's the part of NASA working with SpaceX, you get 4,000 luxury seats, 82" TVs for each seat, and a robot that'll hold your beer for you while getting you the private phone numbers of each of the blonde cheerleaders, all for $10 a head.

GoWings2008

January 29th, 2014 at 3:34 PM ^

Who said head?
I'll take some of that,
So I did, and it was good
And there was much rejoicing.
We screwed for hours and hours
Uprooting trees & bushes & flowers,
We screwed like Vikings
With horns on our HEAD!
HEAD!
Who said head?

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Team 101

January 29th, 2014 at 11:22 AM ^

I was at ND Stadium in 2012.  I was also there in 1990 before the last expansion.  They did a nice job with the expansion in adding the additional 25,000 seats but I don't think they did an overall renovation of the stadium and it lacks many of the amenities that the renovated stadiums have.  $400 million seems like a lot but if there is a lot of deferred maintenance and if they are adding luxury boxes and other modern amenities then I could see it costing a lot.

oriental andrew

January 29th, 2014 at 11:37 AM ^

9 stories seems high, although i do recognize they have a fully above ground stadium.  

will be interesting to see how the mixed-use facility is actually designed and implemented.  sounds like they've been talking to some urban planners, although it is innovative and could be a pretty interesting thing, particularly for an on-campus stadium.  

as an aside, what other schools have an on-campus (like part of their central campus) football stadium?

edit: also surprising - nobody has updated the notre dame stadium wikipedia page yet!

goblueram

January 29th, 2014 at 12:13 PM ^

Of the places I have seen, BC is the closest campus resemblance to ND, and their stadium is right on their main campus in a similar fashion.  It's the only campus I've visited that I thought was nicer looking than ND, plus they have downtown Boston right there as opposed to South Bend, Indiana.  

pdxwolve

January 29th, 2014 at 11:37 AM ^

They can spend their money however they want. They are adding some school buildings, but I can't imagine this costs more than $50 mil. And this isn't so much about ND; it's more about how much these things cost, and no one seems to bat and eye...