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Posted Feb 3, 2021, 11:21 AM
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Update, East Bench - University Of Utah Stadium Project
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Originally Posted by Atlas
The Rice-Eccles stadium expansion is coming along:
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‘We’ve got one shot to get this right and that’s our absolute plan’...Rice-Eccles getting $80 million in enhancements.
By Dirk Facer
https://www.deseret.com/2019/11/30/2...tadium-project
SALT LAKE CITY — The University of Utah broke ground back in November — albeit in ceremonial fashion — on its new Ken Garff Performance Zone. Dignitaries in hard hats used gold shovels to turn some dirt on the $80 million project
that officially began in January...When complete in the summer of 2021, the Ken Garff Performance Zone will bring significant enhancements to the stadium. The existing building and stands in the south end zone will be replaced by a
structure featuring new locker rooms, meeting spaces and premium seating. It’ll enclose the stadium and raise the capacity for Utah football games from 45,807 to 51,444. Funds for the project are being covered by donations and future
revenue streams associated with the new suites, loge boxes, ledge seating, stadium club, field-level club, rooftop terrace, and benches. The zone will also include sports medicine and hospitality areas, as well as spaces for equipment, media,
and a recruiting lounge. Harlan said it will be one of the best facilities in the country when completed.
University members and donating families participate in the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Ken Garff Performance Zone before the start of an NCAA football game
between the Utah Utes and Colorado Buffaloes at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019. Colter Peterson, Deseret News
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Picture By Jeffrey D. Allred , The Deseret News - The current configuration of the University of Utah's Rice-Eccles Stadium is pictured.
Rederings, newly expanded stadium
A few new renderings from this link: https://www.kengarffperformancezone.com/
Olympic Cauldron relocated to make way for Stadium Expansion
SALT LAKE CITY — Cranes and construction workers surrounded the Olympic Cauldron Park Thursday afternoon in preparation for the Rice-Eccles stadium expansion, only to face a small hiccup.
...Original plans to move the 72-foot tall 2002 Olympic Cauldron were postponed to Friday when the moving company, Mountain Crane, realized the cauldron was bolted down to 2 feet of cement, making it substantially
more heavy than originally estimated. A crane to handle the now estimated 56,000-pound cauldron was brought in, and Friday morning, crews moved the structure. For about a year, the cauldron will relocate to a secured location
for refurbishments while construction for the Ken Garff Performance Zone is underway.
By football season 2021, the cauldron will be back on the University of Utah campus permanently. Preliminary work for stadium expansion began in January on the south side of the stadium. According to Paul Kirk, the associate athletic
director for communications at the University of Utah, the Performance Zone will replace a majority of the Olympic Cauldron Park creating 5,000 more available seats, which will include premium seating options, bringing
the new seating capacity to a little more than 51,000. Seating on the south end zone will be torn down after the 2020 football season. Reconstruction plans have always encompassed the cauldron, Kirk told KSL.com.
The new cauldron will sit on a 16-18 foot concrete pedestal west of its current location south of the stadium to protect the structure and make it more visible to the general public. The new plaza will also incorporate a water feature
surrounding the cauldron, to commemorate the theme of fire and ice from the 2002 winter Olympics.
A full refurbishing process will include removing all 738 individual glass panes from the cauldron, replacing them with new glass and LED lights. Due to weather and time, the cauldron’s current glass panes are deteriorating.
Plans for the new glass will include similar bright colors from the 2002 cauldron.
The cauldron's infrastructure will also change from its original fire winding up the feature and water cooling system.“We're not using natural gas that’s contributing to pollution,” said Shawn Wood, community liaison and communications
specialist for the University of Utah. “It's gonna be a lot more energy-efficient.” Wood told KSL.com that they want to make it last another 18 years, and even longer.
Once back in place, the cauldron will continue to only be lit for special occasions.
“It’s one of those things that we want to keep special,” Wood said. “We just want to continue on with that legacy. The 2002 Olympics was one of the most successful Olympics,
and we just want to continue to make the culture last as long as it can.”
Crews move the 2002 Winter Olympic cauldron at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City on Friday, Feb. 14, 2020. The cauldron will be moved to a temporary location where
it will be refurbished while work is completed on the stadium’s expansion project, after which it will be returned to a new pedestal at the stadium. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
Architectural renderings of what the new cauldron plaza will look like once complete. (Photo courtesy University of Utah)
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September 3rd, 2020
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Originally Posted by Atlas
The old south endzone complex at Rice-Eccles has been demolished
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Photo By Atlas
September 20th
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Originally Posted by Atlas
Some nice drone shots of the construction at Rice-Eccles on Utehub today:
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October 23rd
Ken Garff Performance Zone at Rice-Eccles Stadium Beginning To Go Vertical. Steel work has begun on stadium expansion to be completed in Summer of 2021
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Last edited by delts145; Apr 20, 2021 at 11:52 PM.
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