Photos of the Temporary Football Stadium

[pschatz25]

Now that commencement is in the rear view mirror I figured construction of the temporary football stadium would be getting started. Yesterday I took a spin by the Lakefill to check out out the site. They've already made a noticeable amount of progress. The goalposts have already been installed. The South stands are going up (first image). The existing West side (third image) is being at least somewhat dismantled (or reconfigured?). There's nothing is going on with the North stands yet. And on the East side (second image) there are some temporary sections of bleachers lining the sideline. I have to assume the finished East side will be nicer than this, but based on how they described it on that Zoom call it does make me wonder how much nicer it's going to get.

 

[BosCat]

Now that commencement is in the rear view mirror I figured construction of the temporary football stadium would be getting started. Yesterday I took a spin by the Lakefill to check out out the site. They've already made a noticeable amount of progress. The goalposts have already been installed. The South stands are going up (first image). The existing West side (third image) is being at least somewhat dismantled (or reconfigured?). There's nothing is going on with the North stands yet. And on the East side (second image) there are some temporary sections of bleachers lining the sideline. I have to assume the finished East side will be nicer than this, but based on how they described it on that Zoom call it does make me wonder how much nicer it's going to get.

East side isn't going to be built up so they can easily swap in the stage for all the concerts -- including a 2yr Taylor Swift residency that might bring one or two fans into the neighborhood...

 

[techtim72]

Looks like NU fans will be able to do their equivalent of the Iowa hospital wave. Turn around and salute all the future titans of industry. Hoorah!

 

[CMcCat]

Now that commencement is in the rear view mirror I figured construction of the temporary football stadium would be getting started. Yesterday I took a spin by the Lakefill to check out out the site. They've already made a noticeable amount of progress. The goalposts have already been installed. The South stands are going up (first image). The existing West side (third image) is being at least somewhat dismantled (or reconfigured?). There's nothing is going on with the North stands yet. And on the East side (second image) there are some temporary sections of bleachers lining the sideline. I have to assume the finished East side will be nicer than this, but based on how they described it on that Zoom call it does make me wonder how much nicer it's going to get.

Is there enough space on the east side to locate the stands without taking down the stand of trees? Before they released the schematics, I was hoping there would be no east stands and folks could stand at the fence line and watch the game through the trees. That would have created a cool kind of area over there for kids, a bit like that hill at the little league World Series.

 

[pschatz25]

Is there enough space on the east side to locate the stands without taking down the stand of trees? Before they released the schematics, I was hoping there would be no east stands and folks could stand at the fence line and watch the game through the trees. That would have created a cool kind of area over there for kids, a bit like that hill at the little league World Series.

I went by this morning and they were trimming trees on the East side. I'll have to check back to see if they removed any of them. I had been thinking it would be really tight to fit a football team, benches/equipment, and ~10 rows of bleachers in front of the trees.

 

[pschatz25]

Here are a few more recent pictures (some from Friday, some from this morning). The existing West side has been reduced to a few rows, with the press box now sitting on the Lakefill south of the stadium. The bleachers along the East side have been removed. They were trimming trees along the East side this morning. No work on the North side yet.

 

[BigCat77]

Reminds me of the bleachers in the pre-1983 McGaw hall. Boy would those sway if a crowd got jumping

 

[NJCat]

Reminds me of the bleachers in the pre-1983 McGaw hall. Boy would those sway if a crowd got jumping

I still have splinters in my ass from those bleachers......

 

[phatcat]

Reminds me of the bleachers in the pre-1983 McGaw hall. Boy would those sway if a crowd got jumping

Remember they gave us all toy hard hats for the last game?

 

[ubercat]

Yes, remember it well. From a state-of-the-art field house in the ‘50s, to a dusty splintered barn, to a state-of-the-art venue now. For football we’ll be in a similar progression with the same end in sight. Without the splinters.

 

[Just Gary]

I still have splinters in my ass from those bleachers......

Oh my. I hope the crowd doesn’t start jumping during the Wisconsin football game. The whole thing might come tumbling down.