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Kentucky Wildcats Football: Updated Amenities at Commonwealth Stadium

By Shelby Caudill

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Jennifer Smith of the Lexington-Herald Leader was apart of the media tour of Commonwealth Stadium this week. Here is a list of updated amenities you’ll see come September 5.

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"Several other key bits of information came out during the media’s sneak peek Wednesday afternoon, including the new multi-purpose recruiting room with its stunning view of the field (from an enclosed patio) in the East end zone. Recruits and their families will mingle up there until game time.The athletics department also plans to let other UK teams use the space for meetings and to potentially rent the space for corporate events.■ The team will have a new room right off the tunnel (under the recruiting room space) where it will meet before games and at halftime. It will be equipped with chairs, dry-erase walls and restrooms, as well as space for medical staff and an in-stadium X-ray machine. Across the hall is a space for post-game interviews.This season, the team will dress in its existing locker room space and then head to the field. Once the nearby, $45 million practice facility is completed, the players will get ready there and then walk over to the stadium.■ A graphics package is being developed for the entire stadium everywhere from the scoreboards (which are one feature not being replaced) to the blue walls that separate the field from the stands. The signage will feature the new interlocking “UK” logo.“We’re going to have to do these little things to make the house the home,” Pear said.■ The mezzanine and loge level seating includes several soon-to-be cushy lounge areas. The suite level, where glass was being installed Wednesday, has several indoor lounge areas as well as an outdoor patio on one side.■ There is a long-term plan to install blue seat-backs throughout the lower bowl, but Pear offered no timeline, simply saying “somewhere down the road.”■ It’s not just the premium seating that will offer new amenities either, Pear noted. The north side of the stadium has much wider concourses as well as new concessions and restrooms.“Just a different personality to the facility when you walk into the bowl,” he said. “Now, we want people to come onto the concourses and go, ‘Wow, gosh this looks fresh.'”■ The parking lots surrounding Commonwealth Stadium will be paved in the next two weeks, with the goal to get the paving done before school is back in session."

Take a look of a tour of the new Commonwealth Stadium,

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