Johnny Moxen
08-13-2008, 11:51 AM
Article below taken from the Abilene Reporter News (8/12/2008).
Wylie football players have begun practicing on the new artificial turf field at Bulldog Stadium.
Aerial photos of the field highlight the Wylie Bulldog mascot at center field. (Go to the Athletics Booster Club page at www.abilenewyliebulldogs.com/stadium_construction.htm to view the photos.)
Though the field is resurfaced and ready for the approximately 5,000 spectators when high school football season begins, phase two of the construction project will take most of the 2008-09 school year to complete.
When finished, Bulldog Stadium will have new ticket booths, new concession stands and new restrooms flanking a 55-foot-high archway and press box.
The upper-level press box will accommodate seating for home and visitors head coaches, scouts, media, PA and scoreboard personnel.
It will also have an elevator, stadium seating under the new press box, and restrooms with access for the disabled.
"We tried to design the press box and ground-level elements as small as we could get to save money and still get what we wanted," said project architect Jack Harkins.
The $2.8-million project will be directed under a new construction delivery system, as decided by the school board.
As part of the first phase of the reconstruction project, the caliche parking lots north of the stadium have been chip-sealed and will be striped in a matter of weeks.
The parking lot area is the same, but, said WISD Assistant Superintendent Nick Pruitt, once striping is painted on the new surface, event parking will be more orderly and hopefully raise the space utilization to the 700 spaces originally intended.
Wylie football players have begun practicing on the new artificial turf field at Bulldog Stadium.
Aerial photos of the field highlight the Wylie Bulldog mascot at center field. (Go to the Athletics Booster Club page at www.abilenewyliebulldogs.com/stadium_construction.htm to view the photos.)
Though the field is resurfaced and ready for the approximately 5,000 spectators when high school football season begins, phase two of the construction project will take most of the 2008-09 school year to complete.
When finished, Bulldog Stadium will have new ticket booths, new concession stands and new restrooms flanking a 55-foot-high archway and press box.
The upper-level press box will accommodate seating for home and visitors head coaches, scouts, media, PA and scoreboard personnel.
It will also have an elevator, stadium seating under the new press box, and restrooms with access for the disabled.
"We tried to design the press box and ground-level elements as small as we could get to save money and still get what we wanted," said project architect Jack Harkins.
The $2.8-million project will be directed under a new construction delivery system, as decided by the school board.
As part of the first phase of the reconstruction project, the caliche parking lots north of the stadium have been chip-sealed and will be striped in a matter of weeks.
The parking lot area is the same, but, said WISD Assistant Superintendent Nick Pruitt, once striping is painted on the new surface, event parking will be more orderly and hopefully raise the space utilization to the 700 spaces originally intended.