FAU Football Stadium

FAU Football Stadium is a future American football stadium in Boca Raton, Florida, that is currently under construction for the Florida Atlantic Owls football team. The stadium will be located on the north end of the main Boca Raton campus of Florida Atlantic University.

Due to open in Fall 2011, the stadium is the final phase of the university's Innovation Village, a multi-purpose project which will include four additional apartment-style residence halls, of retail shopping space and a multi-use Convocation Center for the basketball program modeled after Knights Plaza at the University of Central Florida.Sarah Talalay, , South Florida Sun-Sentinel, August 30, 2005. Two buildings from the Innovation Village, the FAU Alumni Center and the new Recreation and Wellness Center, have recently opened. A second phase to the Recreation and Wellness Center is now underway and is expected to open in Spring 2010.

While initial plans suggested a 40,000 seat dome stadium, the most recent plans call for a smaller 30,000 seat capacity venue that would be open-air. The steel stadium would allow for future expansion up to 65,000 seats as well as a roof if needed. Cost of the project has been estimated at $62 million and will be funded through private donations and partnerships such as naming rights; no public funds (including tax revenues) are expected to finance the...
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