Stadium Expansion

Today's updates.

Not so many pics of East Stadium today. Just some general shots to show the progress:

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Ed Weir Track is all torn up now. They're rebuilding this thing literally from the ground up:

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I walked over to the west side of the O Street overpass for these shots of the Arena and environs today.

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This structure went up in about ten days. There was basically no ironwork here when I took last week's photos, just some ground work for the foundation. I don't know what this is - I'm guessing it's a hotel.

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The Amtrak station is a lot easier to see from the overpass. They're moving right along with this, too

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The Arena from the south, with the hotel structure to the left. The Amtrak station is to the left, or west, of the hotel in this shot. In the far right background you can see the Haymarket footbridge, where I usually take pics of the Arena.

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Playing around with false tilt-shift stuff on Photoshop and I made this of the Amtrak station:

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That last pic is cool, knapp. I've got a thing for trains, though. (Seriously. That's not innuendo. I've just always thought trains were cool.)

 
Nebula said:
That last pic is cool, knapp. I've got a thing for trains, though. (Seriously. That's not innuendo. I've just always thought trains were cool.)
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Me too. I have an HO scale model train I have had since I was about 6. I need to rebuild that thing.

 
I'm surprised they haven't done any more ironing work on the East in the last two weeks. But based from you top photo, it now looks like they have their iron rails to put in place. Were they waiting for a shipment or something?

 
knapplc said:
Today's updates.

This structure went up in about ten days. There was basically no ironwork here when I took last week's photos, just some ground work for the foundation. I don't know what this is - I'm guessing it's a hotel.
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It's a powerplant for the arena:

"The DEC natural gas plant will be a plain brick building built into a parking garage and will provide low-cost, efficient heating and cooling for the arena and surrounding private development."

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Hello! I've been following this thread for awhile. I live in the LA area and am so thankful for the pics of Memorial Stadium's expansion! Just thought I'd drop a quick note letting everyone (especially knapplc) know how great it is to check out the progress... feels like I'm home (now someone mail me some Runzas or Schmigos)!

Anyway, I was also wondering what peoples' thoughts were about the final result in terms of atmosphere. There has been plenty of discussion in the last year about The Sea of Red's lack of game-day enthusiasm on a consistent basis... surely this addition will increase the volume and resonance of the stadium in general, not to mention add 5k more voices, right? I'm hoping this is a HUGE step in the direction of reminding Husker Nation how great our fans are... and making Memorial Stadium actually a difficult place to visit. Thoughts?

Edit: Does anyone know of plans to bolster the sound system?

 
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California4Nebraska said:
Hello! I've been following this thread for awhile. I live in the LA area and am so thankful for the pics of Memorial Stadium's expansion! Just thought I'd drop a quick note letting everyone (especially knapplc) know how great it is to check out the progress... feels like I'm home (now someone mail me some Runzas or Schmigos)!

Anyway, I was also wondering what peoples' thoughts were about the final result in terms of atmosphere. There has been plenty of discussion in the last year about The Sea of Red's lack of game-day enthusiasm on a consistent basis... surely this addition will increase the volume and resonance of the stadium in general, not to mention add 5k more voices, right? I'm hoping this is a HUGE step in the direction of reminding Husker Nation how great our fans are... and making Memorial Stadium actually a difficult place to visit. Thoughts?

Edit: Does anyone know of plans to bolster the sound system?
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No plans to do soundsystem unfortunately. :(

Even more unfortunately, Amigos IMO has really started going down hill the last couple years. :(

 
Amazing how we can't get a reasonable upgrade of the most basic (and needed) thing in our stadium, yet we can get a multi-million dollar expansion. All about the $$$ I guess.

If anyone knows some filthy rich a-hole, tell him to donate a couple hundred grand so we can get some decent sound equipment installed

 
The sound system is really just downright embarrassing IMO. When I get to go to my one game a year I am in east stadium at about the 45 yard line 15 rows up, so about right in the middle, the sound goes in an out with the wind, it's just awful.

I have never really eaten at Amigos but used to love Runza (my mom makes them homeade) and IMO Runza has really gone downhill, still have great fries though.

 
Links to some pics thanks to Nebraska Video @NEB_FB_VIDEO

Great view of Huskerball from the Pressbox: https://twitter.com/...3896066/photo/1

Putting up the walls on our South Stadium EZ booth: https://twitter.com/...6710274/photo/1

Here is a cool HDR picture of our South Stadium EZ booth: https://twitter.com/...2602369/photo/1

Here is a photo from today of the progress on the East Stadium construction: https://twitter.com/...2550272/photo/1

UNL Memorial Stadium video tower construction (& West Haymarket arena in the background):http://idyllicplaces...nstruction-west

 
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