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State Board ok’s marketing skyboxes
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On Thursday, the State Board of Education announced it would allow Boise State to market skybox suites at Bronco Stadium with the understanding that alcohol can be served.
BSU told board members the skybox suites would be more marketable if alcohol service was available. The approval from the board allows BSU to approach corporations and private donors interested in leasing the skyboxes. If constructed, skybox suites would only be accessible through secured entries, and alcohol would not be allowed in other areas of the stadium.
“We don’t want it [alcohol] in the rest of the stadium,” BSU athletic director Gene Bleymaier said. “I’m not an advocate of that. I don’t think that would be a positive thing.”
The area of the new expansion of Bronco Stadium that has been named the Luxury Suites Complex will have around 30 luxury suites and nearly 650 club seats. All of these will be in the secured area where alcohol sales will be permitted.
“This is a private space, and it can be controlled and monitored. Because of that, there won’t be problems with selling alcoholic beverages,” Bleymaier said.
According to the athletics department, there was no talk of marketing or selling the idea of the skyboxes until approval from the State Board was granted.
Now that the approval has been made, they have immediately begun their marketing program with the idea that the suites and club seats will come packaged with the incentive of having alcoholic beverages sold within the designated areas.
The prices for the new boxes will be about $2,000 per year for the club seats and roughly $40,000 for the suites.
The initial plan is for the expansion of Bronco Stadium to be built no sooner than 2008.
In other news from the board meeting on Thursday, Boise State received approval to issue a request for proposal to design the 72,000 square foot indoor practice facility.
According to Bleymaier, ground breaking for the new facility could be as early as May, and there is a strong possibility that it could be up and running by this time next year.
The indoor facility will accommodate the football team as well as golf, track and field, and soccer.
The board’s approval is for creation of design proposals for the facility. Boise State must return back to the board for approval of the facility’s final design, construction, and financing terms.
Trevor Horn
Sports Editor
