Stadium Expansion

Did my weekly walk-around this AM. This is really becoming a second spectator sport here in Lincoln, and it's neat to see all the out-of-town license plates drive by taking pictures. It's also a lot of fun to walk up to a random Husker fan taking pictures and talk Husker sports. Shoutout to Phillip, whom I met today in the East Loop parking lot, and to Luka from arenatree.wordpress, who lives in the Haymarket and has been taking near-daily pictures of the arena as it goes up.

I'll put my pictures up in a little bit....

 
Quick pic dump tonight, guys. I got an appointment.

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Wow. They are much further than I thought they'd be. This is going up extremely fast!

Thanks Knap!

What is the first picture?

 
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You guys have fun at the spring game for I will be bringing a lawn chair with a cooler filled with beer and I'm going to drink myself stupid while watching the construction workers expand the East Stadium out in the parking lot.

 
Here we go.

Obligatory shot of the main east entrance. They've put up a number of new beams (as tschu jokingly pointed out above) since last week.

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The crane looking straight up from the columns. I'm a budding artist.

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The view from Ed Weir Track. This shot got me thinking about the distance between the new facade and the original stadium, and how much of the old stadium will be visible when this project is complete.

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That wondering led to this shot, where you can see they're putting the north end so close to the original stadium that they've actually cut into the border of the inscription to put the beams up. Apparently the inscription on this side will be flush with the new facade. Now I'm wondering if they're going to be terribly clever and have a room inside this facade where you can walk up to this inscription - which would be tremendously cool. I'd hate to think this will be essentially wallpapered over.

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From the track I swung around to the south side to get a few shots of the inscription there, to see how closely they were putting the facade to this side. I was surprised to see that the stand-off space was much, much further away on this side. This is about how far off the west stadium facade is from the original west stadium. Now I'm wondering why the big difference in stand-off space, or if it's just a matter of the south side not being complete, and they'll swing in closer to the inscription here as they move south with the structure.

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I walked over to the most famous of Memorial Stadium inscriptions to get a shot of how they retained our ability to see the inscriptions on the west side.

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I then went atop the parking garage just west of the stadium and took some shots of the Arena from that perspective. There really aren't any good spots to get a good perspective of the growth of the arena, since none of the buildings surrounding it are public. This is an OK shot. Note the progress on the upper deck, which sprung up in just the last few weeks.

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My weekly pic from the Haymarket foot bridge:

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And my other weekly pic from the parking lot just south of the Post Office:

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Knap I was wondering that on the southern side of the East expansion too. My guess is that they aren't as far a long on that side and that's why there's a gap. If you look at the norther side you will also see they have gotten progressively far on adding the staircase too.

Looking at your North photo, I wonder how I am going to get into gate 16 next season haha.

Also, what's that one beam on the entrance smaller and higher than the rest?

Thanks for the weekly photos Knap! I think HB is the top place to go for expansion updates! Take that Husker SID!

 
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Here's a way we could add seats...

Dig the field down about 10-12 feet and bring the sideline seats closer to the edge of the field. Imagine that: 90k looking straight down on the field, u could add primo seats on the east and west sidelines. However many additional seats 5 rows would add, it would be a lot and it would be loud

 
I am I said:
Here's a way we could add seats...

Dig the field down about 10-12 feet and bring the sideline seats closer to the edge of the field. Imagine that: 90k looking straight down on the field, u could add primo seats on the east and west sidelines. However many additional seats 5 rows would add, it would be a lot and it would be loud
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Not gonna work. They would have to find a place where they can relocate all the dead bodies that are buried under the field.

 
HuskerShark said:
I am I said:
Here's a way we could add seats...

Dig the field down about 10-12 feet and bring the sideline seats closer to the edge of the field. Imagine that: 90k looking straight down on the field, u could add primo seats on the east and west sidelines. However many additional seats 5 rows would add, it would be a lot and it would be loud
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Not gonna work. They would have to find a place where they can relocate all the dead bodies that are buried under the field.
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hey buddy thats inside information that i told you about, you are supposed to keep this kind of stuff quiet....

 
In regards to th spacing on the north end vs the south, think of the space limitations. The track really affects the location of the steel for the support of the addition. The south end had a lot more room.

 
corncraze said:
PaulCrewe said:
In regards to th spacing on the north end vs the south, think of the space limitations. The track really affects the location of the steel for the support of the addition. The south end had a lot more room.
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So they would build it uneven?
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I am sure they would continue to wrap the steel works around to match, but the spacing limitations may have played a role when it comes to the spacing and closeness of the steel columns. If the amount of weight being supported needed X amount of columns in a certain amount of square footage, they may be closed to the existing facade on that end. That is what I was going for. In the end when it is covered and done, we'll probably never really notice. Especially from the exterior.

 
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