Kenan Memorial Stadium
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| place | 78 Stadium Drive Chapel Hill , North Carolina 27514
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| Coordinates | 35 ° 54 '25 " N , 79 ° 2' 52.3" W |
| owner | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| operator | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| start of building | November 1926 |
| opening | November 12, 1927 |
| First game | November 12, 1927 North Carolina Tar Heels - Davidson College 27-0 |
| Renovations | 1995–1998, 2003, 2007, 2010–2011 |
| Extensions | 1963, 1979, 1987-1988, 1995-1998, 2010-2011 |
| surface | Natural grass ( Bermuda grass ) |
| costs | $ 303,000 (1927) |
| architect | Corley Redfoot Zack, Inc. (conversions since 1987) |
| capacity | 50,500 places (since 2018) 62,562 places (2017) 62,980 places (2011–2016) 60,000 places (1998–2010) 57,500 places (1997) 48,500 places (1996) 52,000 places (1988–1995) 50,000 places (1979–1987) 48,000 Places (1963–1978) 24,000 places (1927–1962, expandable to 40,000) |
| playing area | 109.7 × 48.8 m |
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The Kenan Memorial Stadium is a college football - stadium on the campus of the University of North Carolina (UNC) in the American US city of Chapel Hill in the state of North Carolina . The arena, which currently holds 50,500 people, is primarily used for the North Carolina Tar Heels college football games .
history
When in 1925 the old venue Emerson Field from 1916 with 2,400 seats was no longer sufficient for growing audience numbers; the decision was made to build a larger stadium. A former university graduate , William R. Kenan Jr., learned of the plans and donated a large sum to enable the construction of the stadium and the adjacent Field House sports hall . He dedicated the stadium to his parents William R. Kenan and Mary Hargrave Kenan. Work on the sports facility began in November 1926 and ended in August 1927. The official opening of the 24,000-seat facility took place at the game on November 12, 1927 between the North Carolina Tar Heels and Davidson College (27: 0).
After a further donation of one million US dollars by William R. Kenan Jr. in 1963, the capacity of the stadium has been doubled to 48,000 seats. The next expansion took place in 1979 and brought 2,000 additional seats. Another 2,000 new places were added during the expansion in 1987 and 1988; Furthermore, the old press box was renewed. The most extensive renovation to date took three years (1995 to 1998). The biggest change was the construction of the west stand with 8,000 seats; which owes its horseshoe shape to the stadium to this day . So the capacity increased to the number of 60,000 seats. In 2003 the stadium received a modern video wall and in 2007 electronic advertising boards .
A further expansion has been planned since 2006 and the new plans were presented in October 2009. Due to the poor economic situation, this project was postponed to 2010 or 2011 at the earliest. The main part of the expansion concerns the east side; which is to be closed with a grandstand with 3,230 seats. The old Field House sports hall will also be demolished for this purpose. The cost of the construction is calculated at 70 to 85 million US dollars. The grandstand named The Blue Zone will have 1,986 seats right on the field. On the fourth floor of the tier, 924 business seats will be available in a VIP area. On the fifth floor there are then 20 boxes with 16 seats each (a total of 320 seats). The business seats are priced from $ 1,500 to $ 2,500 per season. The price for a lodge is then 50,000 US dollars per year.
In 2011 the Blue Zone grandstand section with the Loudermilk Center for Excellence was inaugurated. The center bears the name of R. Charles Loudermilk Sr., who donated US $ 7.5 million to build the new building. This increased the capacity of the Kenan Memorial Stadium by 3,000 to 63,000 spectators. The construction complemented the stadium from its horseshoe shape to a closed grandstand bowl. In 2018, the bench seats were removed from the tiers and replaced with plastic seats with backrests. This reduced the available space to around 51,000 seats.
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The west stand was built during the renovation from 1995 to 1998
The old display board at Ostend, which gave way to the new building from 2011
The Blue Zone 2011
The Loudermilk Center in the east with the Blue Zone
The Kenan Stadium in spring 2014
See also
Web links
- Stadium on the site of the Carolina Tar Heels (English)
- Stadium on fussballtempel.net ( Memento from June 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ goheels.com: Kenan Memorial Stadium on the site of the Carolina Tar Heels (English)
- ↑ Report on William R. Kenan Jr. ( Memento of December 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ Kenan Phase II Announced ( Memento from October 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ goheels.com: Loudermilk Center for Excellence (English)
- ↑ Individual Seats Coming In Kenan Stadium. In: goheels.com. [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |]] January 8, 2018, accessed February 9, 2019 .