How Ole Miss proposal for land around football stadium would impact fans, per report
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OXFORD − Major development could come to the land around Vaught-Hemingway Stadium on the Ole Miss campus.
Ole Miss issued an RFP (request for proposal) on Dec. 10 that seeks a development partner for a mixed-use development project that would create an entertainment district on 25 acres of land surrounding Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, according to a report from the Sports Business Journal Dec. 11.
The RFP calls for a 30-condo condotel with at least 35,000 square feet of retail and dining space, and a half-acre plaza on the north side of the football stadium, according to the report.
The RFP calls for additional premium hospitality offerings inside the stadium, including 20 suites and at least 12,500 square feet of flexible hospitality space, and roughly 50,000 square feet of athletic department office space, the report said.
The report said RFP responses are due by Feb. 5, and the university plans to award on April 23. Both The Grove and The Walk of Champions would be preserved.
Renovation plans for Vaught-Hemingway Stadium were changed in May.
“Right before NIL kind of became a thing, the plan was to basically tear the west side down all the way to the slab and kind of start over,” Ole Miss athletic director Keith Carter told the Clarion Ledger in May. “In a perfect world, we would do that. It’s obviously dated and we need more room in the concourses and things like that. It’s just not feasible to do that right now.”
Sam Hutchens covers Ole Miss for the Clarion Ledger. Email him at Shutchens@gannett.com or reach him on X at @Sam_Hutchens_
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