FAU Football Stadium

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FAU Football Stadium is a future stadium in Boca Raton, Florida, that is currently in the planning stages for the Florida Atlantic Owls football team. The stadium will be located at the Boca Raton campus of Florida Atlantic University on the north end of the campus.

Due to open in 2010, the stadium is the final phase of the university's Innovation Village, a multi-purpose project which will include five additional apartment-style residence halls, 130,000 square feet (12,000 m²) of retail shopping space and a multi-use Convocation Center for the basketball program.^[1][1]

While initial plans suggested a 40,000 seat dome stadium, the newly-approved plans call for a smaller, 30,000 seat capacity venue that would be open-air. The steel stadium, modeled after the University of Central Florida's new Bright House Networks Stadium, would allow for future seating expansion as well as a roof if needed. Cost of the project has been estimated at $62 million and will be funded through private donations; no public funds (including tax revenues) are expected to finance the stadium.

According to FAU's 2007 Future Land Use plan, the stadium would be located just north of the Breezeway on the main campus, adjacent to the burrowing owl sanctuary.^[2]

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