The Auburn Board of Trustees gave initial approval for a project adding “multi-use” facility to Jordan-Hare Stadium’s north endzone at its Sept. 6 meeting.

According to the meeting’s material documents, the addition will “combine premium seating, concessions, stadium support facilities, along with versatile conference event spaces, retail venues, student activity spaces, meeting rooms, as well as future shell space.”

The vote grants approval of project initiation and authorizes the selection of an architect to move the project forward, according to a release from the university.

“Elevating Jordan-Hare Stadium by modernizing the north end zone has been a big dream among Auburn people for decades,” athletic director John Cohen said in the release. “Thanks to the Board of Trustees’ initial approval and the Doves’ pace-setting gift, that dream is now in the process of becoming a reality. This project provides an exceptional opportunity to move Auburn forward.”

The construction is scheduled to begin following the 2026 season

The release stated that Robin and Reid Dove donated a “leadership gift” in support of the project’s commencement which was the largest single capital donation in Auburn Athletics history.

Cohen previously told AL.com in January that a project to add more suites and a mezzanine into the north endzone was in the “dream phase.”

With the “multi-use” facility project now having initial approval, it’s the second north endzone renovation project with construction for a new video board ongoing.

The video board construction is intended to be complete by the start of the 2025 season, according to a February Board of Trustees meeting where the project was granted its original approval.

The board approved the athletic complex renovation project for sports medicine.

“The renovation will enable the Athletics Department to co-locate, expand, and improve centralized sports medicine and training services to its student athletes,” according to the materials documents.

The project is estimated to cost $9 million and will be financed by athletics department funds, according to the materials documents.

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