New Des Moines Schools Football Stadium

[basketball777]

Des Moines wants to have their own "Valley"-like Stadium.

DM Register story

 

[BentonCounty]

Yeah they sure do. Where an old contaminated tire business used to illegally dump toxins into the ground. Sounds like a great idea. When the business was busted for the activities they openly admitted they had been illegally dumping there for close to 30 years.

 

[mtdew_fever]

What a total waste of money. It's in a flood plain and not entirely needed. The DM school has football fields in place already. Drake is near by for any big track meet.

I really don't see how spending a bunch of money on a project like that would ever pay off. If it did, then it leaves the existing facilities under utilized.

 

[PNation]

The biggest thing I see is that it is completely unnecessary, 4 of the 5 schools already have a stadium and the 5th has the use of Drake. Williams has had upgrades and is good enough for the NAIA national champs, North's Stadium is not that old, and I don't think the fields and Lincoln and Hoover are that bad.

 

[zmac328]

What they should do is take the money they've got for this new stadium and give it to Hoover, North, and Lincoln and have them renovate their stadiums. Just a thought.

 

[LukeFeddersen]

This may be important:

"School officials have not studied the cost of a new stadium."