LSU Alex Box adding New Premium Seating at Ballpark
Aug 14, 2024
LSU is adding field-level premium seating in an area where the bullpen at Alex Box Stadium currently sits; the home and visiting team bullpens are being relocated in a project that will be completed this fall.
Sports Business Journal - The new Field Level Loges, designed by Baton Rouge-based architects Grace Hebert Curtis and built by Arkel, will be built along the left and right field foul lines and configured into 36 four-person loges, with individual seats available on each side. Fifty-two seats will be added along the left field line, with 106 along the right field one.
Each loge will feature in-seat food and beverage service as well as a built-in ice chest to keep beverages cold. LSU’s new loge boxes are being sold on three-year deals. Each box includes four seats and costs $9,400 per season (a price tag that includes donations to the Tiger Athletic Foundation). Sixteen individual seats are also available (minimum purchase of two seats) down the first base line, costing $2,200 per seat for the season. Since this is college sports, priority is given to buyers based on their philanthropic donations.
The project is the latest in a spate of SEC baseball stadium renovation projects, many of which are enhancing fan experience and driving more revenue from programs that are annually among the nation’s best and some of which routinely draw more than 10,000 fans per game. SEC teams made up half of this year’s College World Series; two of them, Kentucky and Florida, opened new stadiums within the last five years, while the other two, Tennessee ($96M) and Texas A&M ($80M), have renovations underway that, combined, top $170M. Georgia ($45M), Auburn ($30M), and Vanderbilt (cost not disclosed) also have active projects under construction.