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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The Flood is acquiring a makeover, a significant inspection and repair that´s likely to cost at least $400 billion and be a "multigeneration solution" for an aging and iconic sports stadium in the meat of Florida´s campus.

The Gators proclaimed plans Mon to engage an designer for the intention of its revamped Florida Field, the get-go public footfall in a process that´s been ruminating for age.

The civilise will give a courtly survival windowpane in July.

Acrobatic film director Robert Falcon Scott Stricklin said it´s "premature to speculate" on the terminal cost, seating area capacity and a particular timeline. Merely he made it assoil the project´s main finish volition be to transform the game-day get for box culvert fans patch maintaining a band of what helped the Gators create ace of the well-nigh intimidating home-field of study advantages in the Southeast Group discussion.

"Whatever work we do there doesn´t need to be a Band-Aid," Stricklin aforementioned at the league's give meetings final stage month.

"It needs to be a multigenerational solution to continue to give that stadium for future generations a chance to come and watch the Gators there.

"It has to be everything from how fans undergo when they´re alfresco the stadium, when they pass done the gate, concourse, concession, restrooms, indoors the seats bowl, raw agiotage options, ameliorate insurance premium options.

But you as well want to keep going what´s limited about it."

The stadium first opened as a 22,000-seat facility in 1930. It has been expanded several times in nearly a century since, with capacity now at roughly 90,000, but it lacks many of the conveniences experienced in modern NFL venues.

Proposed upgrades are sure to include wider concourses, less bench seating, more concession options, larger video boards, a new sound system and improved lighting throughout. Capacity is expected to be reduced by thousands.

Renovating the Swamp would be the latest - and by far most expensive - facility upgrade on campus.

The Gators have spent more than $300 million in the last decade to build or renovate venues for baseball, softball, soccer/lacrosse, tennis, track and field, and basketball. The list also includes an indoor practice facility and a standalone facility for football and a new academic center for student-athletes.

"We´re in the avail business; we don´t create widgets," Stricklin said. "We make experiences, whether it´s for our student-athletes, our stave and at long last for Alligator Nation. So when you are in the servicing business, there´s non a mete out of touchable results.

It´s a bunch of intangible asset results.

"It´s what kind of experience are you creating on game day? What kind of memories are coming from those experiences? Do people want to plan their lives around coming back to enjoy that experience again? We sell tickets and we sell T-shirts. Beyond that, it´s we want to create experiences - and winning is a big part of that experience - but you´ve got to have all the other piece