Texas district is building $60 million high school football stadium

From The New York Times: A $60 million football stadium at Allen High School in Allen, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, is starting to take shape. Allen is the third-biggest high school in Texas and has more than 5,000 students in grades 9 to 12, more than 600 members in the nation’s largest high school band and a campus that spreads across 650,000 square feet. The stadium will hold 18,000 spectators in a sunken bowl designed to improve sightlines. The stadium will include a two-tier press box, an indoor golf practice area, a high-definition video scoreboard, a practice room for wrestling, and ample parking.

JUNE 2010...from The Texas Tribune: The Allen (Texas) district is constructing a $60 million, 18,000-seat football stadium. It will be the fifth-largest high school football stadium in the state, and the largest that will be occupied by a single team.