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Did I miss something here? Who the hell pays 60 million for a high school football field.
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A North Texas high school's $60 million stadium that has been shut down since February amid structural flaws will remain closed through the fall football season.
The Allen Independent School District on Tuesday announced consulting engineers found "significant" structural problems at Eagle Stadium.
The decision, first reported by The Dallas Morning News, says Allen High School home games will be played in neighboring Plano.
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The district said $2 million that was supposed to be placed into an escrow account to help cover repair costs has been withdrawn by the companies' insurance carriers, who refused to authorize the escrow payments.
Pogue Construction said in a statement it couldn't hand over the escrow money without "risking insurance coverage.""
They forgot to to supersize the load bearing specs for supersize seniors.
"'design deficiencies' in the elevated concourse that fail to meet building codes."
"engineers discovered areas where the design load demand “exceeds the code-permitted capacity by 10-20 percent at multiple locations, and by greater than 70 percent at isolated locations,” "
"Partial findings by Nelson Forensics indicate that some support structures were not designed in a way that would hold the weight anticipated on that level of the stadium."
Did I miss something here? Who the hell pays 60 million for a high school football field.
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A North Texas high school's $60 million stadium that has been shut down since February amid structural flaws will remain closed through the fall football season.
The Allen Independent School District on Tuesday announced consulting engineers found "significant" structural problems at Eagle Stadium.
The decision, first reported by The Dallas Morning News, says Allen High School home games will be played in neighboring Plano.
Taxpayers should demand any deficiencies be corrected and paid for from the teachers pension fund.
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