STADIUM: Construction Updates

[Clickclack]

Quickest way to Phase II is to sell out or get close to it in every game - not just the first game and homecoming.

 

Bring your family, friends and co workers.

 

Arrange for a work outing. Group ticket packages are actually pretty cheap.

 

If we just get the Clackster to bring one person for each of his posts we should be all set.

By the home opener we would likely be over capacity.

That's over 7k more people...where are you gonna put them.

 

Man, you've been really silly lately!

 

EDIT: whelp...looks like we'll have to add one more seat...

Edited July 18, 2013 by Clickclack

[haggyland]

That's over 7k more people...where are you gonna put them.

 

Man, you've been really silly lately!

 

EDIT: whelp...looks like we'll have to add one more seat...

 

I wasn't counting those that were already planning on attending, so yeah, it might be too many.

 

Good to see you fell into the trap by responding, though.

[UAalum72]

East side bleachers finished today

 

What I guess are the 'broadcast lights' are installed. Makes me wonder how they'll arrange "HOME OF THE GREAT DANES" on the roof

 

Oddly, where we used to have the entrance stairway is now a pile of rubble

 

But they've saved some of the stair sections

 

Also they've laid out the borders to extend the sidewalk back to the ticket booth.

[uofalbany]

Thanks 72 for the photos... what day did they actually start assembling the visitors' bleachers?

[UAalum72]

Thanks 72 for the photos... what day did they actually start assembling the visitors' bleachers?

Post #1091 shows the work early afternoon on Monday, so then unless they did a little Saturday after the webcam went down. Four days tops.

[alum73]

Probably had to get vehicles up where the stairs were.

[Brutus]

 

 

 

What I guess are the 'broadcast lights' are installed. Makes me wonder how they'll arrange "HOME OF THE GREAT DANES" on the roof

 

If you refer to any of the renderings posted out there, you'll see that that the "Home of the Great Danes" is along the roof edge at the north side of the building, not where the lights are.

Edited July 19, 2013 by Brutus

[Brutus]

Probably had to get vehicles up where the stairs were.

 

The stairs were poorly constructed and the contractor was asked to replace them.

[danefan]

Those broadcast lights are interesting. I wonder if they'll always be on or if they'll only be used for televised games. If they are are only select times, will it be noticeable by the players on the field?

[UAalum72]

Those broadcast lights are interesting. I wonder if they'll always be on or if they'll only be used for televised games. If they are are only select times, will it be noticeable by the players on the field?

Since Rick Coe called them 'broadcast lights', probably only for TV games, not for soccer matches or practice. May be noticed by the home team which is there all the time. Similar to playing baseball in a minor league park compared to Yankee Stadium, or how an ice rink normally uses lights adequate for recreational skating but turns on an extra set so hockey players can see a 100-mph puck.

[UAalum72]

What I guess are the 'broadcast lights' are installed. Makes me wonder how they'll arrange "HOME OF THE GREAT DANES" on the roof

 

 

If you refer to any of the renderings posted out there, you'll see that that the "Home of the Great Danes" is along the roof edge at the north side of the building, not where the lights are.

Yes, but most of the renderings I saw didn't show the lights, and I'm having trouble envisioning how big the lettering will be; also the lights in the middle look too short to have the sign in front of them, which means the stadium name on the south side will be separated by bright lights from the north side. Hope the sponsor's name isn't too long - Martin, Harding and Mazzotti Multi-Sport Complex, Home of the Great Danes'. Just speculating until it's actually erected.

 

BTW weren't they expecting to award the naming rights by now?

[uofalbany]

Assembe in four days... disassemble will be fast and easy, when the permanent structure goes in. For temporary, I think they look pretty sharp. They'll fit in nicely somewhere on another field, when the time comes. They WERE suppose to have announced the naming rights by now.

Edited July 19, 2013 by uofalbany

[madDOG]

I can't believe they haven't fixed the webcam yet. Ridiculous!

[Dane96]

In the picture of the new broadcast lights, does anyone know what that added "gate" is located on the top row to the far left of the TV platform?! It looks to be about 10 feet from the broadcast platform.

[UA_MA_2000]

I can't wait for us to take down the bleachers that we just put up and complete the lower bowl all around the stadium. At least I hope that is the plan. A complete lower bowl would look legit.