Workers Readying New Cowboys Stadium For Opening Concert
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Cowboys Preparing To Host George Strait, Reba
McEntire Concert At New Stadium On June 6 |
About 2,000 workers at the new Cowboys Stadium are "toiling to complete areas of the stadium that country music fans will see" when the stadium opens for the June 6 George Strait/Reba McEntire concert, according to Jeff Mosier of the DALLAS MORNING NEWS. The stadium's "60-yard long HD video boards are not yet fully functioning," and parking lots are "still being paved." Road work also "continues on highway and surface streets alike." But Cowboys Construction Manager & Stadium GM Jack Hill said, "Our expectation is to have the areas that the public sees finished. Some of the things that might not be finished will be in the back-of-the-house areas." Hill added that "floor finishes, paint, wall coverings and some millwork won't be completed in the stadium locker rooms and training rooms" by the time of the concert, and those areas also "won't be fully furnished, and some of the storages areas will be incomplete." Mosier notes workers will have an "extra six weeks to prepare for the stadium's first sporting event, the CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer quarterfinal doubleheader on July 19" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 5/7).
PRACTICE FACILITY FALLOUT: In Dallas, Todd Archer reports Cowboys assistant athletic trainer Greg Gaither yesterday was released from Baylor Univ. Medical Center after "being injured in the collapse of the Cowboys' indoor practice facility." Gaither "suffered a fractured right tibia and fibula and had surgery Saturday" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 5/7). Meanwhile, New York-based Air Structures American Technologies, Inc. CEO & Chief Engineer Dan Fraioli, whose company "engineered and manufactured the Dolphins' 96,000 square-foot, fabric-covered bubble-shaped indoor field," said the media is "misleading the general public by announcing that structure in Dallas is an air-supported structure." Fraioli: "Our structure for the Dolphins is an air-supported structure and not a fabric envelope supported by large steel arches or trusts systems like the one in Dallas. If it deflates, it turns into a light-weight tarp and it doesn't have any weight to it to allow it to plunge down to cause injury as if [it] were a big steel frame collapsing. The safest structure you can have is an air-supported one" (South Florida SUN-SENTINEL, 5/7).
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