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Article: New locker room in the plans.(Sports)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 19, 2008
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By Mark Berman
The Roanoke Times
BLACKSBURG
In its latest effort to keep up with its ACC rivals, Virginia Tech plans to spend $13 million to $15 million on a football locker room facility.
Tech hopes to choose an architect and construction firm in early 2009 and seek design and funding approval from the Board of Visitors in March. The athletic department hopes to begin construction next summer so the 33,000-square foot building could be ready for the 2010 season.
"Our football locker room ... (is) woefully inferior to other football locker rooms within the conference," associate athletic director Tom Gabbard said Tuesday.
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