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Rapides Coliseum Eyes Upgrades
Officials in Alexandria, La., are weighing options to renovate the city’s 50-year-old
City leaders and the Coliseum Authority that oversees the venue recently heard from two architectural firms with big plans for the 7,800-capacity arena.
Updates could include 1,500 new seats and skyboxes, adding a larger stage and new sound, lighting and electrical systems, new dressing rooms, a revamped parking area with new spaces and a new exterior, the local Town Talk reported.
“It’s got good bones,” architect Jay Lynch of Barron Heinberg & Brocato told the paper. “We feel confident we can add to it and use that existing structure to spring forward into this expansion.”
A coliseum study committee was scheduled to meet to decide on a plan to recommend to the city’s Police Jury at press time.