Article: TECH PLANS TO BUILD $13-15 MILLION LOCKER ROOM

In its latest effort to keep up with its ACC rivals, Virginia Tech plans to spend $13-15 million on a football locker room facility.

Tech hopes to choose an architect and construction firm in January or February, and seek design and funding approval from the Board of Visitors in March. The athletic department hopes to begin construction next summer so the building -- which would be about 33,000 square feet -- 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.

The facility, which would also include a players' lounge and office space, would be ...

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