9th Ward Stadium project updates shared with community

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The latest design of the 9th Ward Stadium was revealed at Thursday’s community meeting.

The facility is expected to feature two parking lots, two locker rooms, two entry points and about 3,800 seats overlooking an artificial turf field fit for football and soccer.

“We’re gonna get this place to be our home, and we’re just ultra excited for it really to come to fruition,” George Washington Carver Football Head Coach Luis Figueroa said.

While this stadium will serve as the home base for George Washington Carver High school, it will be open for use to all New Orleans public high schools and middle schools.

“The stadium is gonna hopefully be like the star in the city, and people are going to wanna play here,” project architect John Williams said.

As of now, the project has raised a little more than $10 million through federal, state and local funding.

Project leaders say they are confident that they will be able to complete the current project with the money already raised. They say that if $2 million more is raised, they will be able to add even more amenities, such as a track field.

“We can build it right now with the numbers we have, but we would really like to add some features to the stadium that would make it unique and make the community proud,” 9th Ward Stadium Inc. chairman Arnie Fielkow said.

To help raise these funds, the project’s team is looking to make some sales from bricks in the stadium to naming rights.

“We have naming rights available, both overall stadium main right, and also field naming rights available for this project and that’ll put us over the top at that point,” Fielkow said.

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