Watch: Wake Forest Athletics Breaks Ground on New Demon Deacon Football Facility

Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., recently started construction on a $38 million project to enhance its football facilities. 

Plans for the facility include 60,000 new square feet adjoining the existing McCreary Football Field House and Sutton Sports Performance Center, locker space for 130 student-athletes, a player lounge with a nutrition station, recovery area and entertainment area, football athletic training and treatment space, hot and cold plunge pool area. There will also be a multipurpose space with seating up to 200 for team meals, meetings, functions and other activities for all Demon Deacon programs.

Wake Forest athletics said site work started on Dec.14, 2021 and structural foundations are scheduled to start mid-March. Structural steel will arrive onsite in late April and the building will start going vertical. The McCreary Complex is scheduled to be finished in December 2022.

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