The University of Central Florida recently announced a proposed expansion of Roth Tower at FBC Mortgage Stadium.
According to documents, the Roth Tower renovations will include 1,236 club seats, 34 loge boxes, 34 skybays and 25 luxury suites. The project, which involves expanding approximately 58,000 square feet, is estimated to cost $88 million.
The club seating area will increase by 40% to approximately 16,000 square feet as it grows from 900 to 1,236 seats. Luxury suites will increase from 25 to 59 and the school plans to offer a level of “sky cribs” that will provide fans with an open-air patio suite with upscale food, beverage, beer and wine.
The stadium expansion is part of a new football campus, first proposed by UCF athletics director Terry Mohajir in 2021. The project includes the building of McNamara Cove and the Sharon and Marc Hagle Gateway, which will serve as an activation area on gamedays while providing an additional entryway to the football stadium.
It also calls for the building of the Taylor A. Gerring Football Center. This two-story standalone football operations building will house football coaches’ offices, meeting rooms and a student-athlete lounge.
Phased construction is scheduled to start in the spring of 2024.
A planned 115,000-capacity stadium in Morocco — Grand Stade de Casablanca — is projected to be the largest football stadium in the world.
The stadium will be fully compliant for FIFA competitions, with the ability to host games at the FIFA World Cup 2030, following Morocco’s naming as joint hosts for the tournament alongside Spain and Portugal. It will also serve as the home of two local clubs.
A consortium led by architects Oualalou + Choi and Populous has been awarded the contract to design the stadium.
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- Development permits have been filed for a new stadium for two soccer clubs in East Oakland, Calif. The project would replace a surplus parking lot within the Coliseum campus and allow the two teams to start playing in the 2025 season. The permits were filed the same day the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum board unanimously approved plans for the Oakland Athletics to negotiate a lease agreement for 2025-2026 with the teams’ owner.
HOK is the project architect. PGAdesign is overseeing the landscape architecture, BKF is involved for civil engineering, and Lloyd Sport + Engineering will be responsible for the civil field engineering.
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