[Matthew]

Wrigley Field was expanded and renovated. When I was born, if you told a Cubs fan that stadium would have lights and night games, they likely would've laughed. Night games were money makers and that stadium had lights three years later. In recent years, they've blocked some of the Rooftops (famous rooftop seating on buildings across the street) with a massive video board and even dug under the stadium seats to add themed experience areas. I want to say an original building (it may have been a groundskeeper building?) was moved for their massive renovations and they even built a grand entrance with an office building.

As football becomes the main money maker for the entire Wake Forest University Athletics Department, they will look for ways to bring more people to that stadium and create new experience areas to keep them there and separate fans from their money. I think this was missed in my post, but if they are successful in attracting more fans and building a larger fan base outside Winston-Salem by around 2033, it wouldn't surprise me if they add 15,000 to 20,000 seats to reach a very reasonable 50,000 seat goal (no less than 45,000 and no more than 50,000 would be a good size), with a lot of experiences included in that expansion. That would still rank among the smaller stadiums in the ACC and the Power Five, but it would be better sized to make money for them, allow them to host very popular teams at home instead of finding a larger venue elsewhere, and host more and larger non-game events, generating more money. Football is now the money sport in the ACC and a 50,000 seat stadium would allow Wake Forest to still have a smallish stadium while bringing in more money. Keep in mind the many college stadiums with twice that many seats. The university I graduated from has around 93,000 seats in their stadium! 50,000 is small. They are already working to keep their football team a ranked team, attract great players, bring more students to the stadium on game-day, and build a larger fan base in the region. It's that larger fan base that will make a bigger stadium happen. It will also bring more money into everything from baseball to golf to soccer. Again, if they are successful in their continued efforts to field a strong football team and attract more fans, I do think we could see a funding campaign and plans for added seats and new fan experiences in the 2030s.