Penn State will be adding two new LED ribbon boards to Beaver Stadium in 2024, according to the Office of Physical Plant documents. The LED board additions are among several ongoing projects this year as part of Beaver Stadium’s multi-year renovation plans.
“… [The project] is an annual program that addresses major capital improvements in and around Beaver Stadium,” the document states. “The 2024 budget is earmarked for priority work encompassing LED Video upgrades, Server Relocation, Stadium Winterization, and various other enabling work as part of the West Side Renovation Project.
“The LED Video Display scope includes replacing the existing North and South ribbon boards, the South scoreboard LEDs, a new South upper ribbon, and a new super ribbon board on the South end. The supper ribbon board will require extensive new steel structure and reinforcement of the existing structure. Project scope and structural steel needs to support the ongoing MM project will include but are not limited to providing a new primary structure for the super ribbon display, catwalk with grating, access stairs, and existing steel column and beam reinforcement.”
For reference, the south end of Beaver Stadium is the same end as the main tunnel and center of the student section.
The two main Beaver Stadium scoreboards were completed prior to the start of the 2014 season and cost $10 million in total. OPP documents do not include projected costs for many of the changes slated for the 2024 fiscal year but are likely folded into the $70 million in spending that was already been approved by Penn State’s Board of Trustees in earl 2023. The overarching Beaver Stadium’s renovation is earmarked for around $700 million and is tentatively scheduled to be completed in 2027.
StateCollege.com reached out to an OPP representative for more details regarding some of these initial projects, but the OPP website noted a non-disclosure agreement related to more specific access to construction related details for firms set to bid on the rights to such projects.
