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After BJCC Board approved Brasfield & Gorrie’s $179,958,150 bid to build Protective Stadium, @UAB’s home, board’s Joe Fuller: We never had a team play a top 20 team in a bowl. We should do something nice for Coach [Bill] Clark and Mark Ingram.” Chair Dennis Lathem: We just did.” pic.twitter.com/SU6FKkcRBW

— Roy S. Johnson (@roysj) December 20, 2019

Bhate Geoscience also won a $395,195 bid to do foundation testing work at the stadium site.

— Anna Beahm (@_AnnaBeahm) December 20, 2019

BJCC Executive Director Tad Snider said he “can’t say enough” about all the Birmingham-based companies that have worked on the Protective Stadium project.

— Anna Beahm (@_AnnaBeahm) December 20, 2019

Vertical construction should start as soon as the contractor can get to the site, Snider said. The actual contract will be finalized in the first days of January 2020.

— Anna Beahm (@_AnnaBeahm) December 20, 2019

Awesome! B&G will do a great job.

https://www.al.com/news/2019/12/birmingh...adium.html

Stadium update: BJCC board approves $179 M construction contract.
This limited scope contract allows Brasfield & Gorrie to begin up to $5M in work while legal contract is being finished. The final contract should be approved the first week of January. pic.twitter.com/Wlbg09zVSt

— Lauren Walsh (@LaurenWalshTV) December 20, 2019

This was the first vote to begin vertical construction of the stadium. BJCC leaders say the goal remains- to be ready for UAB’s 2021 Football season.

— Lauren Walsh (@LaurenWalshTV) December 20, 2019

BJCC Board Chairman says the price could go down more before the vote in January: "They’re still working on reducing price from the document we have."

— Lauren Walsh (@LaurenWalshTV) December 20, 2019

https://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/n...um-at.html

Is this a stadium that will belong to UAB or is it owned by the City? What is UAB's plan for filling the stands in a 45,000 seat stadium?

Will belong to the BJCC.

How we intend to fill the stadium, I don’t know. Attendance declines from game 1 on, each season. The hope is to get into a better league and that the competition will entice people to come watch UAB compete. 18 straight wins at legion field and we are still struggling to draw 20k late in the season.

The thought of a new stadium and it being on the other side of town isn’t enough to have the expectation of filling the stadium.

(12-20-2019 06:34 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  Is this a stadium that will belong to UAB or is it owned by the City? What is UAB's plan for filling the stands in a 45,000 seat stadium?

It’s owned by the BJCC and UAB is the main tenant

(12-20-2019 06:45 PM)BlazinBham Wrote:  Will belong to the BJCC.

How we intend to fill the stadium, I don’t know. Attendance declines from game 1 on, each season. The hope is to get into a better league and that the competition will entice people to come watch UAB compete. 18 straight wins at legion field and we are still struggling to draw 20k late in the season.

The thought of a new stadium and it being on the other side of town isn’t enough to have the expectation of filling the stadium.

We had much better late season attendance last year because the general fan thought we were playing something. 28,000 for UNT in late October and 25,600 for USM in late November

The last 2 home games this season we were coming off of back to back blowout losses where we looked absolutely horrible vs Tennessee and Southern Miss. We needed a miracle to align to make the championship game and most people didn't think that would ever happen. It at least played into it some

Obviously I'm not saying we will fill a 45,000 seat stadium more than maybe once a year...but yeah. 25,000 looks a lot better in a 45k stadium than a 70k stadium