A press box original to the 45-year-old Aggie Memorial Stadium in Las Cruces, may be replaced if state funding for what is expected to be a $10 million project is secured.
The project has been talked about for several years at an initial cost of $8.2 million.
New Mexico State University official are hoping that capital outlay requests for exactly 13 projects totaling $16.8 million will win the approval of both state lawmakers and Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham this spring.
Ironically, given the ever-increasing cost of labor and materials, the price tag for a new press box is more than double the $4 million it cost to build the entire stadium, which saw its first football game in September of 1978.
Other NMSU athletic facility projects to be funded with the New Mexico State Legislature’s approval: locker room renovations, roof renovations, a new football video board, and new lighting for the school’s softball fields.
The stadium saw the construction of a new 2,200 square foot covered skybox in 2015.
By Garry Boulard
