Mizzou reveals groundbreaking renovation plan for Memorial Stadium
Mizzou is coming off one of its best seasons in program history after 11 wins in 2023. Now, the Tigers are up to No. 6 in the latest AP Poll, and the program is receiving some major backing from the university.
On Thursday, Mizzou unveiled a massive renovation plan for Memorial Stadium. Given the name “Why Stop Now,” the project is a $250 million improvements plan for Memorial Stadium and is expected to be completed by the start of the 2026 season to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of the first game at Memorial Stadium.
https://twitter.com/MizzouAthletics/status/1834337740277907847
According to the press release, the project will aim to enhance the fan experience by further enclosing the north end of the stadium and adding a variety of premium seating options. The plan will focus on maintaining tradition while integrating modern intervention.
The expansion along the north edge of the stadium will include 2,000 new premium seats including box seats, mezzanine club seats and 66 suites. The total final capacity after the renovations is expected to be nearly 65,000.
The project will include additional upgrades throughout Memorial Stadium. Some of those amenities include upgraded restrooms and concessions, a new team recruiting center, event space for year-round use and upgrades in lighting, sound system, Wi-Fi improvements and ribbon boards.
Thank goodness. It’s so embarrassing to see the bleacherless or highschool-bleachered endzones at Missouri, Vandy and Georgia.
the trouble with Faurot Field is that the stands are too far back from the field – there’s the track, then the hill and then the stands – UT (the real one in Austin) remedy a similar problem by digging down and adding more rows of seats
I don’t know if this is true or not, but I heard they had looked at lowering the field at Mizzou and the cost was so prohibitively high because the bed rock is just below the current field level.
When rocks are outside the end zone, bed rock is probably low priority
It will be VERY difficult (expensive) to lower the field – there is a major N-S Storm Box culvert than runs down the centerline of the field. It was failing in the late 80’s, took top off, put in a pipe, and filled the rest with concrete. Drains large part of Stadium Blvd and area to the north
Beautiful stadium, or proposal for the stadium.
COMO is an awesome town and the Mizzou campus is incredible, definitely deserving of a top-tier stadium.
Excited to see it done! Fitting that it will be on the centennial anniversary of the stadium.
Last year was a magical season for the tigers, but it wasn’t their ‘best in program history.’
That would be 1960 in which they could theoretically claim a national championship ( but don’t)
Man give us a break… some of us have to fight and claw for $250 mil in public funding… Especially in a state where a lot of it is allocated to placate our multiple professional championship winning football, baseball, and hockey teams.
Was supposed to be a reply??? Oh well.
except… this isn’t public money. It was donated and ear-marked for this specific purpose by a private party.
They should embrace the rocks and make it look like Red Rocks Ampitheater with a football field in the middle