A game day plaza - like a smaller Power and Light (seems like a stretch to me)
Like I said rumors only.
That would be great, but to do it well and effectively, will cost a ton imo. That plaza would need to be right by the stadium imo and integrated in to the NEZ/performance center stuff. At the cost you’d hope to have it directly add value to JTS. Something like shared infrastructure with a facade for the east/north part of JTS, the non-stadium half being open/used more than on home games.
I’ve been to some smaller college campuses in which part of the stadium infrastructure were multi-use with offices, classrooms, even some student housing. Presumably those leased uses could extend to entities like restaurants. Professional stadiums have been doing this for two decades, but rarely as stand-alone concepts.
I’m all for getting creative in how to upgrade JTS while also adding the chance for revenue, even if that revenue is delayed. You think about how much a university like ISU spends on new infrastructure each year, and it has always seemed like a missed opportunity to not hit two needs at once. In fact, if you look at many older stadiums, that’s how they got built, multiple purpose use largely paid by the university. I guess red tape is prohibitive now for the university and the athletic department to work so closely together.