A&T eyeing luxury boxes for Aggie Stadium

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GREENSBORO, North Carolina -- N.C. A&T’s athletics department could get new offices and Aggie Stadium could add seven luxury suites under a plan shown to the university’s board of trustees last week.

Although right now, “plan” might even be too strong a word.

“At this point, that’s nothing but a drawing,” said Earl Hilton, A&T’s athletics director. “We don’t have any financing identified or concrete plans. I love it in concept. But right now, that’s all it is: a concept.”

The concept — part of an updated facilities master plan called “A&T Preeminence 2020” — would add a $10.75 million, three-level athletics complex behind the bleachers of Aggie Stadium’s south end zone.

Sketches place the building at the bottom of the hillside off Sullivan Street, overlooking a plaza facing the campus. It would add a main entrance to the stadium, consolidated office space to put A&T’s entire athletics department under one roof, and an upper level that would rise above the top of the bleachers with seven enclosed suites overlooking the field.

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