Ground was broken Friday in Katy, Texas for a new $61 million high school football stadium in the Katy Independent School District. Currently, the district’s seven schools only have 10,000 seat Jack Rhodes Memorial Stadium.
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The new stadium, which is scheduled to open in 2017, will seat 12,000 people with a two-story press box. It will be located adjacent to Rhodes Stadium.
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The new stadium was part of a $748 million school bond package that was approved by voters in November 2014.
The $61 million price tag will make it America’s most expensive high school football stadium, topping the $60 million spent to build Eagle Stadium in Texas.
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