Kenan plans get OK
Published: Tue, Dec. 05, 2006 12:00AM
Modified Tue, Dec. 05, 2006 03:31AM
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closeCHAPEL HILL -- Following on the heels of a $1.86 million annual contract for new coach Butch Davis, the North Carolina football program won approval of a $75 million expansion at Kenan Stadium.
On Monday night, the Chapel Hill Town Council approved changes to UNC's campus development plan, including a project that would add more than 8,800 seats to the 60,000-seat stadium.
New box seats and the final leg of a concourse on the eastern end of the stadium will displace the Spanish revival fieldhouse near the Rams Head Plaza. Kenan Stadium also will gain new restrooms, concession stands and a new pedestrian path to Rams Head.
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The stadium will be under construction from November 2008 until September 2010.
The approved plans also include doubling the number of seats at Boshamer Stadium, where last year's national runner-up baseball team plays its home games.
The $14 million project would bring the seating at Boshamer to about 4,000 and create new concession stands and restrooms, a new batting tunnel, field, lighting and landscape improvements and a new maintenance building.
That project is scheduled for next summer and fall. The stadium should reopen in January 2008.
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