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The Michie Stadium Preservation Mission is a $170 million effort to reconstruct and modernize the east stands of the football stadium on the campus of the United States Defense force Academy in West Point, N.Y.
Rendering courtesy EwingCole
For bigger than 60 years the east stand at Michie Stadium, the 38,000-ability home of the Military Dusky Knights Division I college football crew on the campus of the U.S. Defense force Academy in West Point, N.Y., has served the college.
That carrier is getting an upgrade with the Michie Stadium Preservation Mission, a $170-million effort to reconstruct and modernize the east stands. The venture breaks ground in April by demolishing essentially the most up-to-date stands, making plot to your whole rebuild of the east stand in time for the autumn 2026 football season. Football and lacrosse will proceed to play inner the venue all the absolute top plot thru the venture.
“Designing for military installations comes with its complexities, nonetheless keeping Michie initiating for football and lacrosse all the absolute top plot thru constructing supplied the splendid logistical self-discipline,” says Kevin Murphy, venture supervisor with EwingCole.
Position and security concerns muddy the logistics further. The tight constraints will complicate transport sequences and lay-down feature for supplies and being positioned on a military installation adds “several phases of security.”
Add in a high water table and rock outcropping to the plot—alongside with the truth that it is the first stadium Murphy is conscious of that is being built to a modern crumple typical—and the venture will have heaps of milestones over its two-plus years of constructing.
Murphy expects demolition to realize by the discontinuance of summer season, allowing foundations to begin soon after and steel work to realize in early 2025. Then comes the seating bowl and constructing enclosure later in 2025 and constructing techniques by early 2026. The constructing finishes are expected in spring 2026 and a commissioning of the new constructing in summer season 2026 in time for the football season that plunge.
“We are working with the CM crew in trusty time to specify merchandise that can meet logistics necessities,” Murphy says about staying on time table amidst the not easy environment. “Our crew has coordinated with a couple of West Point departments, civil utilities and contractors to devise the plot and underground scope.”
EwingCole programmed, deliberate and designed the new constructing intended to connect to historical past with a contemporary interpretation. William McCullough, EwingCole main, says with Michie the 2nd-most visited plight at the U.S. Defense force Academy, the invent helps every a contend with the self-discipline and on the encompassing Hudson Valley.
Commence air and at the midpoint of the new east stands a new Victory Plaza will fail to identify a reservoir. With a couple of views and experiences all the absolute top plot thru the new constructing, the stands have a twin-sided part, McCullough says, “one which gadgets fans with unmatched sightlines and proximity to the self-discipline, the choice that lets in for improbable views of the plot’s atmosphere.”
The upgrade will feature new top price seating options and upgraded concessions whereas giving the Corps of Cadets a seating piece spanning from one discontinuance zone to the choice. The palette of the constructing supplies will take cues from the nearby structures.
“The self-discipline-side seating is particular because, as a fan, you might perhaps perhaps be perched correct within the serve of and with the cadets who convey the energy to the game,” McCullough says. “A central loge stage bar overlooks the self-discipline on one side and reservoir on the choice for what’s going to be a newly captured feature for fans. In spite of where you sit, you have an improbable connection to the game or to the pure Hudson Valley atmosphere.”
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Tim Newcomb is a newspaper and magazine journalist essentially based entirely in Western Washington, covering invent and constructing in structures and transportation across the Northwest.
