The stadium will seat 7,500 people and is expected to be ready for fall 2025. The activity center will have more than 47,000 square feet.
Council approved a site plan in a unanimous vote that asked for some building design and parking changes to plans that involve the stadium, indoor activity facility and concession stands.
The details
Lexin Murphy, director of development services for the town, said the new stadium and indoor activity center will be situated close to Argyle High School. The applicant, VLK Architects, requested some deviations, including to the parking standard. The company is designing the facilities.
The total required spaces are 1,875, but this stadium will surpass that by the applicant proposing 2,021 spaces. The applicant performed a parking study for the number of spaces to be included at the stadium, Murphy said.
The applicant is conducting a special event plan, which must be finalized and approved by the town prior to AISD hosting its first football game.
“That’s really just looking at kind of how the traffic will be directed coming in and out the site during games,” Murphy said.
The applicant also asked for a change in facade materials for the stadium—to allow alternate building materials consisting of metal panels to exceed the maximum allowable 20% alternate building material threshold—and variations to roofs for the concession stand buildings and the press box, which would allow the three concession stand buildings to have a shallow roof pitch, and to allow the press box to have a flat roof, the council agenda memo states.
What's next
Marty Sims, principal from VLK Architects, said site improvements have been approved, and the next step is a getting a development permit approved. Once any comments have been addressed from that process and the building inspection’s plan review, then VLK should receive a building permit to begin construction.
