Announcement about UD Arena coming Thursday

University of Dayton to release news about ‘critically important project’

Credit: DaytonDailyNews

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By Dave Jablonski
May 9, 2017
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The University of Dayton will make an announcement Thursday about “a critically important project in the history of the University, University of Dayton athletics, UD Arena and its championship basketball programs,” according a press release issued Tuesday.

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The announcement will be about upgrades coming to UD Arena. The press release states “months of research, reviews and planning” went into the project.

The event will start at 10 a.m. and will be open to the public. Doors will open at 9:30 a.m. UD will stream the announcement on the Dayton Flyers Athletics Facebook page.

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UD Arena opened in 1969. The last major upgrade, which cost $13.1 million, came in 2002.

“The arena has served the university and the community in many ways and has served it very well,” Dayton Athletic Director Neil Sullivan said in 2016. “But it is approaching 50 years of age. We recognize we have to start studying and investigating some improvements that will be necessary moving into the future.”

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