Just my two cents. The seismic retrofit of the grandstand and the new press box on the west side were very expensive. They should have demo'd the entire west side of the stadium (not retrofitted) and constructed an entirely new, and smaller, west grandstand with a new, and less lavish, press box (all up to current seismic standards). I t…
Just my two cents. The seismic retrofit of the grandstand and the new press box on the west side were very expensive. They should have demo'd the entire west side of the stadium (not retrofitted) and constructed an entirely new, and smaller, west grandstand with a new, and less lavish, press box (all up to current seismic standards). I think that would have been significantly less expensive than what they did.
And they should have done a little more on the east side. It's really silly when you have spent hundreds of millions and you still have porta potties and no decent concessions on the east side, isn't it?
The entire project was poorly conceived. And this leaves still open the question of whether they got their money's worth for what they actually ended up doing (ie, was the project as built well managed and overseen).
The die-hard Cal fan in me bristles at the thought of a smaller West side. We should wanna be the Big House like Michigan’s. As for the east side, yeah the austere accommodations might be just one reason why so many students don’t go to games.
Just my two cents. The seismic retrofit of the grandstand and the new press box on the west side were very expensive. They should have demo'd the entire west side of the stadium (not retrofitted) and constructed an entirely new, and smaller, west grandstand with a new, and less lavish, press box (all up to current seismic standards). I think that would have been significantly less expensive than what they did.
And they should have done a little more on the east side. It's really silly when you have spent hundreds of millions and you still have porta potties and no decent concessions on the east side, isn't it?
The entire project was poorly conceived. And this leaves still open the question of whether they got their money's worth for what they actually ended up doing (ie, was the project as built well managed and overseen).
The die-hard Cal fan in me bristles at the thought of a smaller West side. We should wanna be the Big House like Michigan’s. As for the east side, yeah the austere accommodations might be just one reason why so many students don’t go to games.