Check out the new $7.3 million press box to be built on War Memorial Stadium in time for the next football season (UL-Monroe and LSU). The construction will include 494 enclosed “club” seats, up from the current 218.
UPDATE: Stadium manager Charlie Staggs says the four-level structure will have club seats on the first level; on the second level, club seats and five suites (for home and away athletic directors and home and away coaches’ wives and the stadium management); working press on the third level, and an open photo deck on the top level.
Here’s the seating news. The existing 218 club seats were sold in 1967 for life for a $1,000 payment. The new seats will now be sold by the UA as part of the priority seating plan (you pay extra to the Razorback Foundation for good seats). Staggs said he didn’t know what premium UA would put on the seats, but it was part of a plan to ensure that Little Rock games come closer to matching Fayetteville revenue, where the stadium holds many more spectators. Current seat holders will have first-refusal rights on the new seats, at whatever price is listed. The stadium will continue to receive $75,000 per game rent and concession and parking income, which will go to pay for the work along with a state appropriation.