Arkansas Business, August 7th, 2000
Construction Workers Double Stadium Efforts
OVERNIGHT, IT LOOKED AS though the August sky had opened up and rained men and steel on Reynolds Razorback Stadium.
Giant metal girders poked into the air on the morning of Aug. 1, and a colony of workers welded and wired with the sun and time bearing down on them.
One day earlier, University of Arkansas Athletic Director Frank Broyles had cracked the whip and sent construction of the stadium's $75 million expansion into a frenzy -- like an anthill before a storm.
The race, driven by politics and profit margins, was to have the largest construc...
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