Any photo updates on the progress here...?
Edwards Hall is completely gone as of a few weeks ago.
PNF for the Fieldhouse (seems to be for Football use only)...
The football team is definitely the main "customer" as they desperately need this facility to be even remotely competitive in the ACC football facilities arms race (they could also use a new coach, but that's a subject for a different blog). However, I'm sure other teams will be able to use it when the football team isn't in there. But football will be absolute Priority One for use of it.
Look, I'm not bashing BC... look at what my alma mater is willing to do...
The football team is definitely the main "customer" as they desperately need this facility to be even remotely competitive in the ACC football facilities arms race (they could also use a new coach, but that's a subject for a different blog). However, I'm sure other teams will be able to use it when the football team isn't in there. But football will be absolute Priority One for use of it.
A major part of the public discussion will be the housing impact. If you look at the site plan of the prior IMP (figure 1.5 of the PNF) you can see three dorms projected for what is now Shea Field. In this PNF the site plan has them eliminated, though in section 2.1.2 there's a paragraph saying that these three dorms will be condensed into two, with those details in a separate IMP amendment. There is still some space there to do that, though that area's getting a bit cramped now with this field house.
Even with a BC grad as Boston Mayor, I think they'll have a hard time getting their IMP amended for this field house without providing certainty that the number of beds of undergraduate housing previously promised to be built there will still get built somewhere.
I certainly didn't think you were bashing BC.
I can't tell from your posted pic what your alma mater is, but there's a lot of that sort of thing going around. Holy Cross has a huge new facility in process that includes an indoor practice field large enough for a full-length football field, and HC intentionally de-emphasized football decades ago (as compared to BC, for example). In the facilities race, for BC to be behind HC means they are just miles and miles behind the ACC norm. There's a real good argument that BC ought never have joined the ACC (which I mostly agree with), but that water flowed under that bridge: they made their bed in the ACC, now they have to figure out how to sleep in it.
The alma mater is Northwestern.
Here is the interior of Holy Cross' new field house.
Visually, Holy Cross' looks to be higher, and the Holy Cross field looks to be striped for different sports. I don't believe BC has a men's lacrosse team, and lacrosse season starts in February. I know there are schools that have played scheduled lacrosse game indoors, because the outdoor field was unplayable. I believe that a regulation football field (with end zones) is suitable for lacrosse.
But, IMO, this is a waste of money, manifest of a keeping up with the Jones attitude, if BC intends it to be used only for football.
But, IMO, this is a waste of money, manifest of a keeping up with the Jones attitude, if BC intends it to be used only for football.
BC does have lacrosse.
Men's lacrosse is a club sport at BC. They do not have an NCAA (varsity) program.