JTS Improvements - Want More
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There must not be much to see with the construction. I thought folks may post CyTown construction after the spring game. But, dirt and parking lot stuff is not that exciting to look at.
I'm still waiting for that 3rd deck on the east side and expanded press box at JTS. Get capacity to over 70k and watch the Hoks spontaneously combust. Biggest stadium in Iowa!
Assuming they go with asphalt, it can be paved pretty dang quickly and parked on 24 hours later.
Both probably. It's probably PCC islands and curb & gutter with HMA parking and drive lanes.
Because outside of the bluest of blue bloods, stadiums are actually reducing capacities and investing in amenities. Way more cost effective to have less people paying more money for fewer seats with more options.
Iowa State does not currently need or will ever need more seats than they have right now.
Reminds me of the arguments against bowling in the south endzone.
If Iowa football reverts back to the futility of the 60s and 70s and we can capitalize on it, Jack Trice has room to accommodate bandwagon fans. We could convert a lot of the standard benches into club seating and continue expansion. Potential future generations of high dollar donors may eventually necessitate a grander press tower and more suite levels on the west side.
Bowling in the South Endzone was much more about the premium seating than it was about getting more butts in seats down there.
I'll hear arguments about needing more club seating all day (assuming demand is cultivated) but that doesn't necessarily mean it has to be as part of a press tower project.
Iowa has been consistently 'good' for 45 years now and with the influx of cash they aren't going anywhere as far as being a major draw for that fan base. That stadium is never going to have wide swaths of unused seats.
That and I’m not really interested using the University of Iowa Athletic Department (and all their wonderful decisions) as a measuring stick for success.
This has been a trend for about a decade, iirc. And this is a specious argument that ignores actual conditions.
Which ISU has been bucking for most of that period.
Other schools maximized their potential, and are dropping. Due to decades of futility, the Cyclone program is just beginning to reach it’s potential.
And it has nothing to do with what UI does or doesn’t do. If CMC continues ramping up Cyclone football to be a national contender annually, there is untapped market aplenty a thirty mile drive away.
That's the way I read it as well. Concrete for the perimeter and then asphalt for everything else.
Assuming they get decent weather, the asphalt paving portion of it will be fast. Big, flat open space with lots of space to stage trucks and turnaround? That's a pavers dream. That's where you get to play the game of who's the limiting factor? The paving crew or the asphalt plant?
I have to think this is the way they will do this. Asphalt is far cheaper and faster than concrete. It would take lots of extra time for that concrete to cure before the season starts.