North Endzone Webcam

[BearDown89]

Hey Devin, if you're watching . . . notice the Booster wearing shorts on Jan. 20.

[Friedrice]

I feel like Big Brother watching all these people interact from the Webcam

[ASUHATER!]

yeah we don't need a 65-70k stadium. thats ludicrous. the way the place is configured with the new expansion there really isn't any room for further expansion either.

maybe in 10 years if we have a couple rose bowls and like 6 10+ win seasons maybe, but there really is 0 reason for arizona football to have more than 60k for a stadium.

hell the capacity of autzen is less than arizona stadium.

[BearDown89]

Geezus, the webcam operator needs to chill down a bit. I'm getting nauseous.

[illcat]

How's the food at Zendejas' Mexican Bar and Grill??

Are they retiring a couple of jerseys today??

[BearDown89]

Originally Posted by ASUHATER!

well the red and blue accents you see on the east side are already there

Yeah, I see that now. It looks good. I didn't notice it when I was there for the 2010 Assu game, but I was sitting on that side. I hadn't been in years. The video board is sweet.

[ASUHATER!]

official arizona athletics release on the groundbreaking ceremony and plans today:

Jan. 20, 2012

CLICK HERE FOR LIVE STREAMING VIDEO OF THE EVENT (3 p.m. MST)

TUCSON --The University of Arizona Department of Intercollegiate Athletics will hold a ceremonial groundbreaking for its North End Zone Football Facility at 3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 20, in Arizona Stadium. The project was boosted by two substantial gifts.

UA President Eugene Sander, Athletics Director Greg Byrne and football Head Coach Rich Rodriguez will ceremoniously kick off the $72 million project, along with other notables.

The facility will be named for two couples, who are strong supporters of other University programs, with naming details yet to be determined, Byrne said.

The project is supported by private funds including significant leadership gifts from David and Edith Lowell, who pledged $11 million for the stadium complex, and from Jeff and Sharon Stevens, who donated a total of $12 million. All monies for ICA capital projects come from private funding and no state or tax dollars or student fees are being used to fund the project. The Lowell family gift previously was announced as an anonymous donation.

The facility will be a four-floor operations center with strength training, sports-medicine, coaches offices, locker rooms, meeting rooms, equipment and facility service areas. The structure will enclose the north end of the stadium and create a full bowl with nearly 4,000 premium spectator seats, including a donor lounge with outdoor seating. Also, it will have a campus cafeteria.

It will have stairway and elevator towers for the concourse connecting the structure to the existing east and west stadium sections, and additional restrooms and amenity areas for spectators, student-athletes and the campus community. Construction is expected to be completed by summer 2013.

David Lowell and Edith Sykes Lowell attended the University of Arizona where both participated in athletics. David played for the 1945 UA football team and Edith was a 1948 UA Letterwoman in field hockey and women's intramural sports. David received a bachelor's degree in mining engineering from the UA in 1949 and a master's degree in geology from Stanford University in 1957. He obtained a professional engineer degree from the UA in 1959 and also received honorary doctorates from Universidad Nacional de San Marcos in Peru in 1998 and the UA in 2000. Edith was a member of Gamma Phi Beta Sorority and graduated with two degrees, a bachelor's in anthropology in 1948 and a master's in Spanish in 1950.

The Stevenses met at the University of Arizona while both were students in the early 1980s. A native of Phoenix, Jeff Stevens is one of the originating partners in Western Refining Inc. of El Paso and current president, director and chief operating officer for the firm. He began in the refining business as a marketing vice president for Phoenix Fuel in 1993 and for Giant Industries when it acquired that company in 1997. He joined Western as an executive vice president in 2000. Mrs. Stevens, the former Sharon Sayre, is a Tucson native who earned a dual degree from the UA in accounting and management information systems, and is a certified public accountant.

[BearDown89]

Anybody know the name of the big mystery donor yet? That's him speaking now I guess?

[ASUHATER!]

Originally Posted by BearDown89

Anybody know the name of the big mystery donor yet? That's him speaking now I guess?

read my post

[AZ2ATX]

Originally Posted by BearDown89

Anybody know the name of the big mystery donor yet? That's him speaking now I guess?

Lol dude that's the President of the University.

[BearDown89]

Originally Posted by AZ2ATX

Lol dude that's the President of the University.

Ha! Never seen him before. Guess if I'd tuned into the streaming instead of watching the webcam I'd have known that.

[IronJay93]

Mystery donors were Salters, Lowells, ans Stevens(es). They're getting some helmets and jerseys. Nice (expensive) swag. Plus, they get to dig up the football field??? along with Coach.

[dc4azcats]

Video of the ceremony. GB and RR both speak.

http://www.arizonawildcats.com/allaccess/?media=293638

[T-Bone]

Looks like a crane is going up on the east side of the project.

[mofohefe]

Originally Posted by T-Bone

Looks like a crane is going up on the east side of the project.

One on E & W sides. They should start mass ex next week and start drilling/pouring caissons by mid Feb.