Protective Stadium (York: appointed, shop, bills)

[mcalumni01]

People have to understand that there was a lot of hands into this facility getting built and how it was design to be built. This wasn't 100% the city of Birmingham. It was Jefferson County and the many individuals involved with them, UAB and the many many individuals with ties with the school, BJCC authority board, which probably has the most say so into anything that is in that area. (Me personally, I think that board should be abolished), Legion FC representatives, and then the city of Birmingham. Even though the city contributed the most money, they probably was the least to have any imput into how it would be designed. If it was up to the city, it would probably look a lot different and a lot more seats. From my knowledge I don't think the city representatives was giving much imput to begin with. Much of the designing room meetings was BJCC and UAB. So you get what you get. Tad Synder, who's over the BJCC campus never really strike me as a guy looking out for the best interest of the city. He treat the BJCC complex as if it was in Hoover or Mountain Brook or it's own little city. And then they had to listen to UAB. One of their problem with LF was capacity size. So I'm pretty sure their message for the design of the facility was make it look compact and campus like.

I would hope this isn't the finish product. Professional anything here is a dream and the next best hope is that the way CFB is headed with these mega conference, that the SEC get involved more with Birmingham on the neutral field hosting site thing to put pressure to invest/maintain a high quality facility with improvement add-ons. But I know that's hard to do with schedules/sites already finalized for years from now. Plus most schools, especially FBS, now do home and home series. Just really late to the game. What's going on now should have been back in the 2000's decade. Only if MAPS would have passed. It is what it is.

[TimCity2000]

landscaping just about done. signage being installed. i do think the front plaza will be a nice feature for people to enjoy before games, especially fronting Uptown.

[MinivanDriver]

I was flying in Sunday afternoon. As we passed downtown, you could see that video screen playing. Looked impressive.

[TimCity2000]

so do the middle 3 sections on each side have chairback seats? is that what i'm seeing being installed in this pic?

[TimCity2000]

Pretty cool drone video: https://fb.watch/759EIuIEvR/

[OldBankhead]

I hope UAB has some night games. There will be some great views of the skyline in there.

[BammaBoy17]

UAB first game against Liberty will be a night game.

[RocketDawg]

Originally Posted by BammaBoy17

UAB first game against Liberty will be a night game.

Will it be televised? Hope so - it'll be nice to see how the stadium looks.

[TimCity2000]

CBS Sports Network will carry it. Guess it depends what type of cable / streaming service(s) you have. Don't think that's a standard cable channel.

[bhamblazer]

Yes, the three middle sections on the east side have cushioned chairback seats.