Fresno State is in the midst of renovating its 37-year-old home Bulldog Stadium, but those renovations may have to wait.
As detailed by the Fresno Bee, cracks in the cement on the stadium’s east side walkways and seating areas could push an expected completion date of 2019 back to ’20 or even ’21.
“It’s the 100-pound gorilla,” AD Jim Bartko said.
There are two options ahead for Fresno State: either the cracks could be a simple fix that would allow the Bulldogs to remain on schedule for a Sept. 7, 2019 grand re-opening. Or the cracks could be signs of a larger issue that would require a complete teardown, adding years and an additional $20 million to a project that’s already projected to cost $60 million.
Fresno State won’t know its next course of action until soil tests under the east side of Bulldog Stadium are complete.
“The east side is the one kicker,” Bartko said. “It might be ’19 half of it and ’20 half of it, because we’re not going to be able to do it all at one time.”
