Just heard that construction on the new Softball stadium will begin in about a month and a half. The stadium should be finished in time for next season.

As I posted on another thread the AD made a wise business decision to add the softball lockers and offices to the soccer lockers and offices when they built the building. That should speed the complex along .

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That's great, where will it be located? Also any renditions of it available? I wonder what kind complex are they building. State of the art or basic with room for addition later? Hope they do state of the art. This program seems to be headed in the right direction.

Cplatt

That's great, where will it be located? Also any renditions of it available? I wonder what kind complex are they building. State of the art or basic with room for addition later? Hope they do state of the art. This program seems to be headed in the right direction.

Cplatt

 

Unless things have changed, the softball stadium will be next to the soccer stadium and in the vicinity of Vincent-Beck Stadium. The current soccer support building was originally constructed to serve both soccer and softball. It also is depicted as the "Soccer and Softball Complex" on the campus map (#56 on linked map)

 

http://www.lamar.edu/campus-map/

 

Agree that it would be nice to see renditions.

 

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The baseball and softball fences will be facing each other with about 100 feet in between the two. From what I am hearing, the softball stadium will cost around 2.5 million dollars to build and will seat around 2,000 people. For a reference, the Baylor softball stadium cost 1.6 million to build and this is what their stadium looks like.

 

http://www.baylorbears.com/facilities/getterman.html

 

I am expecting a pretty nice stadium.

Here's another stadium. Michigan State built theirs in 2011 for $2 million.

 

http://www.msuspartans.com/facilities/ocf-softball.html

 

It appears that the Michigan State project included locker rooms and other support costs. Our project should not require that since the Soccer / Softball Complex building was orginally designed to serve both the soccer and softball stadiums.

 

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Here's a link to the RFQ that went out in December, 2013. If you click on the "Package 1" link embedded in the first paragraph of the linked page below, some information is provided; especially in sections 2.3 and 2.5.

 

There are no renditions, but project scope and components as well as timelines are provided.

 

http://esbd.cpa.state.tx.us/bid_show.cfm?bidid=109404

 

Here's a similar RFQ for Architect/Engineer

 

http://esbd.cpa.state.tx.us/bid_show.cfm?bidid=109203

 

Hopefully, everything is on track.

 

So it will be covered. That is good to hear.