Allen, Texas, A $60 Million High School Football Stadium

Eagle Stadium is a football stadium in Allen, Texas.

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Outsiders call it the wretched excess of the state’s mania for high school football, the kind of schoolboy facility inspired by Jerry Jones‘ Cowboys Stadium while the residents call it breathtaking because the city lives off its adrenaline, because the game frees their soul, because the party after the big win is spectacular, because they feel invincible once they step inside the stadium.

Due to the program’s popularity and student population, the school was authorized, via an approved April 2009 $60 million referendum, to build an 18,000 seat stadium on 72 acres (Allen Eagle Stadium) for the team and parking space for 5,034.

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But the folks in Allen, Texas, say the football stadium fits in with a strategy, by taking advantage of the community’s suburban wealth and open spaces to transform it into a location with its own image that will allow it to survive and thrive once its population boom settles down.

Allen is a prototypical fast-growth Texas town, with its population increasing from about 2,000 to 8,000 between 1970 and 1980, then to 18,000 in 1990, to 43,000 in 2000, and up to 84,000 in 2010. Being a mere 12 miles northeast of Dallas helped that boom immensely. It’s not just how many moved to Allen, but who is moving there. The median household income in Allen is about $95,000 per year, compared with a national median of $49,000. The city is so short of low-wage labor, it’s applying for a federal grant to develop transit strategies to get people from elsewhere to their retail and hotel jobs.