Delaware Stadium to receive long-awaited facelift at cost of $60 million
Delaware Stadium, which has beckoned Blue Hens football fans for decades despite its fading beauty, is about to receive a long-awaited major makeover.
The University of Delaware will announce at halftime of Saturday’s football game against Albany that the 22,000-seat Newark facility will undergo a $60 million transformation.
It will include installing chairback seating in the three middle sections – C, D and E – of the west (home side) grandstand and box-seat area just above Tubby Raymond Field.
More noticeably, it includes construction of a five-story, 90,000-square-foot, glass-and-steel building that will run the length of the stadium outside the west grandstand.
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