Michigan State Aims To Complete $20M Football Stadium Upgrades For '14 Season

Michigan State Univ. by May of next year “should have completed" a $20M Spartan Stadium renovation, which would be "spruced up during the summer" and unveiled for the '14 football season, according to Joe Rexrode of the DETROIT FREE PRESS. The MSU Board of Trustees “will have a retreat and meeting June 19-21, during which construction is expected to gain final approval.” MSU AD Mark Hollis said that the $20M is “split between" $14M in donations and $6M in funding from the MSU athletic department. More than $10M in donations has been "raised so far." The school has “hired IDS for the architecture and Barton Malow for the construction.” The plan “calls for a two-level building at the north end of the stadium." The first level will have "locker rooms for both teams and coaches, a locker room for officials, an equipment room and a media center.” MSU currently has “small locker rooms for both teams at the north end of the stadium, no locker room for officials and trailers for media interviews” (DETROIT FREE PRESS, 5/13).