(04-18-2022 10:19 AM)niu1980 Wrote:  The alternate site is less specific at this point but probably at one of the ends of Hall of Champions. A big downside would be no view of the field and smaller.

I would favor this alternate site. Use of the "gap" between the north ends of the two main grandstands and the Yordan Center eliminates any possibility of a "bridge" grandstand. This is the only realistic possibility to expand Huskie Stadium by 3,000-5,000 in the future -- if that continues to be a goal -- by forming a horseshoe connecting the north ends of the grandstands.

Coupled with the 2014-15 plan for bigger east and west skyboxes, this would bring HS close to the widely-accepted standard of 30,000 for FBS football. Since HS has exceeded 27,000 attendace only six times in its history, this would be about right for its best market draw.

This would also leave the south end for a viable project: a formal east-west Touchdown Village structure topped by a larger videoboard, which would fit into the shallow (front to back) south end site. This would enable HS to provide a specialty feature plus compete with big-screen TVs ( a LOT of stadiums are doing this for that reason).

So I am less concerned about a few dozen or hundred users of this new facility having a view of the field to monetize a small space than I am screwing up potential options for the whole stadium.

This is why these "little" piecemeal projects bother me, and why I support Dog Fan's suggestion for a kind of revolving, continuously marketed investment fund/campaign coupled with a list of priority projects in and around HS.