A sign over the football stadium's Ricer Road entrance now reads HighPoint.com StadiumNJ ADVANCE MEDIA
Rutgers' football stadium "will be called HighPoint.com Stadium" in '18, after the company with naming rights to the venue recently "took 'solutions' out of its name," according to Keith Sargeant of the Newark STAR-LEDGER. The 52,454-seat stadium located in Piscataway "had been called High Point Solutions Stadium since Rutgers sold the naming rights to the Sparta, N.J.-based company" in June '11. While the term "expires on June 30, 2019, HighPoint can extend the deal for two more years at $750,000 annually." The sign over the stadium's Ricer Road entrance "now reads HighPoint.com Stadium." However, HighPoint co-Founder & Owner Tom Mendiburu said that he is "working with Rutgers officials on the placement of other signs outside the stadium and on the field" (Newark STAR-LEDGER, 6/5).
ALMOST THERE: In Newark, James Kratch notes the "final piece of structural steel was placed down on the construction site for the new RWJBarnabas Health Athletic Performance Center next to the Rutgers Athletics Center during a 'topping off' ceremony." Rutgers AD Patrick Hobbs said that the facility "remains on track to open" in July '19. It will cost $115M in total and "will come in at 307,000 square feet in total area, 134,000 square feet of which will be dedicated to athletics." The building "will host team facilities for men's and women's basketball, wrestling and gymnastics, ... plus a public area holding the the Rutgers athletics hall of fame and a fan store" (Newark STAR-LEDGER, 6/5). In New Jersey, Jerry Carino notes virtually the "entire men’s hoops team, plus several other coaches, officials and donors, signed their names across the beam before it was lifted by crane and placed on the roof in a symbolic moment for Rutgers sports" (ASBURY PARK PRESS, 6/5).
