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Roos Field Renovation

LDopaPDX said:
I think it's well past the "fact-finding" stage, and sounds like it is now putting together a pitch to gather donations. Eastern is actively prpeparing marketing to hit the street and giving a proposal to the Board of Regents (or Trustees or whatever the hell they call it) to secure university funding. I guess one large donor from the Willamette Valley and a couple from the Westside are already onboard.

Just to be clear, I have NOT seen blueprints... I think I may have not said that correctly earlier, but they do exist and are being shown to fundraisers. What is included is a new two-tiered Eastside structure that will have a bulding facade on one side and the stadium seating on the other. The stadium will be "compressed" versus the current incarnation and the track will be removed allowing seating right up to the field surface.

University funding is being sought to cover the removal of the track and relocation to a new venue atop the current practice fields. I'm not sure what plans for seating exist up there, maybe they could move the current Eastside temps, who knows. I guess the field can be relaid without much prep? I was unclear on that.

The final project will amount to 14,000- 15,000 seats. That will still include the structure at the end of the North endzone. Mark Hughes is the guy largely spearheading this. The only real hitch that could unhinge the project is him leaving Eastern... and we all know plans have a way of falling apart quickly at EWU. I think a public announcement will be in store for the Spring, as that's when the proposal will be sent to the University for public financial support. I have no idea on an estimated completion date, but my understanding is that this is a "sooner" rather than "later" project and beginning at the end of next season is likely.
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Great to hear. If theyre gonna upgrade the eastside, the may as well do the south endzone like they did the north endzone. But still great to hear. Lopa who/what are your sources? or at least tell us how reliable are the source(s)? 50%? 100%? :thumb:
 
Source is 100%.

However, it was mentioned that this is sort of a working plan and needs various approvals before moving forward. And knowing Eastern, someone will eventually come along and try to fuck it up. We've seen projects to expand the stadium reach and exceed this point before and never come to fruition. But I hear the benefactors and fundraisers are very committed to making this happen.

Let's say I'd be catiously optimistic.
 
IMO not much needs to be done to the south end-zone. Not if, upon completion of the proposed project is going to add 4-5k seats. Additional end zone seating wouldn't be needed at that point.
 
clawman said:
LDopaPDX said:
LDopaPDX said:
Somebody with a background in large-scale construction can probably add more to this, but my understanding is that it costs about $1m per 10 ft. of digging and grading to start a one-block sized building. In other words, four sub-level floors equals $4m.

To remove the track, it would require 20 feet of digging and grading (about 2 floors), but the sheer scale of digging that much would probably double and maybe even triple the cost. And that's assuming you don't hit a bunch of bedrock that needs to be blasted out. Final cost just for eliminating the track--- somewhere between $4 and 6m.

That probably represents 2x what we want to spend on the new grandstand, and that is before we'd actually do any building. As much as every football fan would like to remove the track, I seriously doubt that is a legitimate option.
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FWIW, the only other option would be to pick up and move the field about 30 ft. to the inside wall of the current grandstand. I'd suppose that would be the cheaper option, but considering we just laid the field, it would seem equally unlikely to disregard what we've already spent. I know it would go down as sunk cost and all of that, but that would be hard to sell to donors and the university.
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Especially considering that the major cost of the field project was the preparation and dirt work, not the field turf itself.
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Doesn't matter. pick up the track, pick up the turf, move it 10ft. west. Now simply build the east grandstand where the track used to be. You still have to leave room for Cheerleaders, team benches etc. and minimal ADDITIONAL ground prep work is required to relay the turf. (only ~120 yards x 10ft.) Lowering the field isn't mandatory but removing the track is. UW & WSU have to lower the field bc they already have PERM grandstands on each side. EWU is in a unique situation bc the perm east side doesnt exist yet.

Fill in the corners of the west grandstand, no track, same north endzone + new east side grandstand = Sweet 15k Venue. :twocents:
 
I wonder if moving the field closer to the west stands are even in the works or will they just leave gaps where the track used to be? Seems it would be expensive to move.
 
eaglesfootball said:
I wonder if moving the field closer to the west stands are even in the works or will they just leave gaps where the track used to be? Seems it would be expensive to move.
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I think they'll leave the field but remove the track. :ohno:
 
I dont know it would have to be a pretty bone headed move to do all that work and simply remove the track without moving the field closer. Consider the cost of the entire project I doubt moving the field amounts to much. We could still reuse the turf.
 
Eagle1990 said:
I was in Cheney yesterday and heard there was going to be a major announcement this week. Anyone else hearing anything?
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Nope, but hope it's the one we've all be waiting for as Eagle alums and not something like the Root Sports package we've all known about. And hopefully not something like we are playing South Dakota in 2014. :)
 
Eagle1990 said:
My nephew is a sophomore at Eastern and heard scoreboard yesterday. I hope he is correct.
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:nod: This is what I have heard as well, scoreboard. The person I asked hadn't heard anything about any further renovations, but a new scoreboard would be a great start.
 
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