WesternBlazer
Hall of Famer
Posts: 22,199
Joined: Jan 2008
Reputation: 90
I Root For: UAB
Location:
|
Scarbo: New UAB football stadium could be coming into focus
|
|
11-17-2015 03:26 PM |
|
hooverblazer
Promoter of UAB
Posts: 13,807
Joined: Dec 2006
Reputation: 101
I Root For: UAB
Location:
|
RE: Scarbo: New UAB football stadium could be coming into focus
Glad to see some official steps starting to unfold. 55,000 seats may be a tad high though IMO. I'd like to see 40-45k. I do like how they're planning a comprehensive update to the whole complex though.
(This post was last modified: 11-17-2015 03:31 PM by hooverblazer.)
|
|
11-17-2015 03:30 PM |
|
biglizard
All American
Posts: 2,530
Joined: Jan 2005
Reputation: 9
I Root For:
Location:
|
RE: Scarbo: New UAB football stadium could be coming into focus
(11-17-2015 03:30 PM)hooverblazer Wrote: Glad to see some official steps starting to unfold. 55,000 seats may be a tad high though IMO. I'd like to see 40-45k. I do like how they're planning a comprehensive update to the whole complex though.
It may not be 55k to start. It could start at 40-45 range with future expansion capability
|
|
11-17-2015 03:41 PM |
|
Blazer85
Hall of Famer
Posts: 17,552
Joined: Nov 2003
Reputation: 54
I Root For: UAB Blazers
Location: Gardendale
|
RE: Scarbo: New UAB football stadium could be coming into focus
So we really think it's going to be April 2016 before a design can even be approved and any dirt can begin to be moved? If so, definitely do not see how a 2017 start in the new stadium would be feasible at all.
|
|
11-17-2015 04:24 PM |
|
mixduptransistor
Hall of Famer
Posts: 10,987
Joined: Dec 2006
Reputation: 79
I Root For: UAB
Location: Atlanta
|
RE: Scarbo: New UAB football stadium could be coming into focus
(11-17-2015 03:46 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: It will be 45 unless something has changed in the last couple of days.
There is a lot of talk about designs being ready to go but they're talking about hiring a firm and just getting a design by April of next year. Sounds like there is a disconnect somewhere.
|
|
11-17-2015 04:30 PM |
|
EnviroBlazerD
Special Teams
Posts: 549
Joined: Nov 2014
Reputation: 5
I Root For: UAB, Alabama
Location: Blockingham!!!
|
RE: Scarbo: New UAB football stadium could be coming into focus
If Tuesday/Thursday nights to dodge Bama/Auburn home games is the goal, Legion Field won't work in 2017.
April 2016 IS early enough to break ground for a 2017 completion in this day and age, but just barely.
It really needs to be 2-3 months before, and we're 5 months out from April 2016 as it is.
Now I don't really think EVERY home game needs to be a weeknight, but if Bama's playing an SEC opponent in Tuscaloosa, that game needs to be "weeknighted." Auburn's effect is less certain. Hopefully we'll schedule smart enough that will be the exception rather than the rule and most home games can still be on Saturdays while both Bama and Auburn are either away or idle. It seems to me that we should be able to get at least 3 scheduled that way, as well as the "First Game of 2017" idea one week before Labor Day.
(This post was last modified: 11-17-2015 04:48 PM by EnviroBlazerD.)
|
|
11-17-2015 04:43 PM |
|
bladhmadh
All American
Posts: 4,801
Joined: May 2011
Reputation: 92
I Root For: UAB
Location:
|
RE: Scarbo: New UAB football stadium could be coming into focus
There is more to the plan than the stadium.
|
|
11-17-2015 04:45 PM |
|
EnviroBlazerD
Special Teams
Posts: 549
Joined: Nov 2014
Reputation: 5
I Root For: UAB, Alabama
Location: Blockingham!!!
|
RE: Scarbo: New UAB football stadium could be coming into focus
(11-17-2015 04:45 PM)bladhmadh Wrote: There is more to the plan than the stadium.
Good point. And besides, it's not like we can't play half the season at Legion and half at the new facility, is it? In fact, that's the way I see it playing out in 2017 at the rate we're going.
August 26, Labor Day Weekend (Bama plays at a neutral site and Sunday and Monday could be options), and sometime in mid-to-late September or early October could be our first 3 home games at Legion, and then later in the season in the new facility would be our last 3, perhaps beginning with Homecoming during one of Bama's off-or-away weekends.
|
|
11-17-2015 04:55 PM |
|
WesternBlazer
Hall of Famer
Posts: 22,199
Joined: Jan 2008
Reputation: 90
I Root For: UAB
Location:
|
RE: Scarbo: New UAB football stadium could be coming into focus
|
|
11-17-2015 05:31 PM |
|
rook360
All American
Posts: 4,478
Joined: Oct 2007
Reputation: 64
I Root For: UAB
Location:
|
RE: Scarbo: New UAB football stadium could be coming into focus
|
|
11-17-2015 05:57 PM |
|
UABGrad
All American
Posts: 3,069
Joined: Nov 2003
Reputation: 99
I Root For:
Location:
|
RE: Scarbo: New UAB football stadium could be coming into focus
Yeah $165,000 buys you some cartoons. The real design fees will be in the millions I would think.
|
|
11-17-2015 06:32 PM |
|
blazer-J
2nd String
Posts: 329
Joined: Nov 2007
Reputation: 7
I Root For: UAB
Location:
|
RE: Scarbo: New UAB football stadium could be coming into focus
(11-17-2015 04:24 PM)Blazer85 Wrote: So we really think it's going to be April 2016 before a design can even be approved and any dirt can begin to be moved? If so, definitely do not see how a 2017 start in the new stadium would be feasible at all.
I was under the impression that it would take three years to build, so it would 2019 at the earliest. Three years does sound like a ling time though.
Anyone have a good time line?
|
|
11-17-2015 07:31 PM |
|
WesternBlazer
Hall of Famer
Posts: 22,199
Joined: Jan 2008
Reputation: 90
I Root For: UAB
Location:
|
RE: Scarbo: New UAB football stadium could be coming into focus
From what I've seen online it seems that 18 months from 1st shovel to opening is typical. I guess AB would be the person to ask, though...
|
|
11-17-2015 07:42 PM |
|
FNblazer
#freeuab
Posts: 12,384
Joined: Nov 2007
Reputation: 222
I Root For: UAB
Location: Austin, TX
|
RE: Scarbo: New UAB football stadium could be coming into focus
Looks like the failed FRW Administration has been out-strategic planned.
|
|
11-17-2015 08:48 PM |
|
bladhmadh
All American
Posts: 4,801
Joined: May 2011
Reputation: 92
I Root For: UAB
Location:
|
RE: Scarbo: New UAB football stadium could be coming into focus
(11-17-2015 09:41 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: We can get in it by 2018 season. They need to select an architect quick though.
this is the same company that is building the Colorado state stadium.
|
|
11-17-2015 10:11 PM |
|
BAMANBLAZERFAN
Hall of Famer
Posts: 17,221
Joined: Oct 2005
Reputation: 57
I Root For: UAB & Bama
Location: Cropwell, AL
|
RE: Scarbo: New UAB football stadium could be coming into focus
With all those stadiums we have seen built around the nation in just the last decade or so, why does it seem we have to "reinvent the wheel" to build one in B'ham? What new &/or different elements could we expect that would be so different from what has been built elsewhere -- especially on what is probably going to be a "bare bones" budget?
|
|
11-17-2015 10:20 PM |
|
mixduptransistor
Hall of Famer
Posts: 10,987
Joined: Dec 2006
Reputation: 79
I Root For: UAB
Location: Atlanta
|
RE: Scarbo: New UAB football stadium could be coming into focus
(11-17-2015 10:20 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote: With all those stadiums we have seen built around the nation in just the last decade or so, why does it seem we have to "reinvent the wheel" to build one in B'ham? What new &/or different elements could we expect that would be so different from what has been built elsewhere -- especially on what is probably going to be a "bare bones" budget?
They will definitely be bringing in elements they've used before. That's part of the point of hiring a company that specializes in a given type of facility. They will have to pick out the elements right for the project and fit it into the available land, tie it into the BJCC, etc. You can't just go to Costco and buy a football stadium.
|
|
11-17-2015 10:34 PM |
|