NU to unveil $150 million football facility plan Friday

ZRod said:
Was just in town last week and can't believe how much the campus has changed, but commuter parking is an after thought. It's only on the perimeter now.
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Parking for students absolutely sucked in the 80s when I was there.  To my knowledge, it hasn't improved.

 
ZRod said:
Was just in town last week and can't believe how much the campus has changed, but commuter parking is an after thought. It's only on the perimeter now.
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That's what they were trying to accomplish.  Not as many vehicles driving through campus there it's more of an open feel for pedestrian/bike traffic.

 
Mavric said:
That's what they were trying to accomplish.  Not as many vehicles driving through campus there it's more of an open feel for pedestrian/bike traffic.
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Which is nice. So just change that lot over to grass and preserve some of it for the tailgating and the game day atmosphere.

 
why not set it up for vendor tailgating.. Let say 6-10 vendors set up assigned area's with one being a beer garden and then put out canopy tents for shading. Lastly, allow 6-10 random tailgate spots for the public to bring in their grills/cookers to add to the atmosphere. In the Nov games, put up a several Standing LP heaters to warm the tailgater's. The vendor spots are sold yearly while the public (call them grilling spots) ones are free but only available once per year per family. Draw the public spots randomly and send the spot schedules out accordingly. Vendor and Public spots are setup Friday night to eliminate on campus traffic issues. 

 
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Loebarth said:
why not set it up for vendor tailgating.. Let say 6-10 vendors set up assigned area's with one being a beer garden and then put out canopy tents for shading. Lastly, allow 6-10 random tailgate spots for the public to bring in their grills/cookers to add to the atmosphere. In the Nov games, put up a several Standing LP heaters to warm the tailgater's. The vendor spots are sold yearly while the public (call them grilling spots) ones are free but only available once per year per family. Draw the public spots randomly and send the spot schedules out accordingly. Vendor and Public spots are setup Friday night to eliminate on campus traffic issues. 
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Because those are very expensive tailgate spots that the AD can sell to boosters. 

 
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I hadn't thought about it, but next year is also the centennial for Memorial Stadium! Good timing to get the new facilities done.

 
Just read the University is going to hire a third party to design or look into future upgrades for Memorial Stadium.

 
I hope they put that on solid footings so that they can dig under it in a few years to put in underground parking. Unless they want to do what a lot of other places are looking at and put parking under the stadium itself. You could probably put most of the gameday parking under there and open up a lot of parking space for other use around campus for other usage.

But the next project after this and the stadium really really needs to be renovating the coliseum into the Cornhusker Hall of Fame and Meusem. Get everything out of North Stadium and get more stuff out of storage and on display and maybe add a small theater that shows film that is in the archives on loops and the like. Go look at the baseball hall of fame and the Boystown Meusem for inspiration. Theres a lot you could do with it in that space. Then since you no longer need the facilities inside North Stadium, expand the facilities you do need and then turn the rest into an NIL operation zone where kids can sell their own merch and current and former Huskers can make some money.

 
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