Executing a years-long plan, Purdue will install new video boards in Mackey Arena this summer, in alignment with the facility's 50-year anniversary.
From Purdue's news release on Monday:
The center-hung display will feature four 20-feet wide by 13-feet tall six-millimeter LED video boards. The halo ring will measure 109-feet in circumference by three-feet tall with a 10-millimeter LED display.
The statistics boards will measure 20-feet wide by 11.5-feet tall each (10-millimeter LED), with their adjacent ribbon boards 50-feet wide by 3-feet tall each (also 10-millimeter LED).
Mackey’s current center-hung display has four video boards measuring 13.5-feet by 7.75-feet each with 12-millimeter display, while its three statistics boards are 19-feet by 5-feet each with 23-millimeter display. There are no halo ring or ribbon boards presently.
The new video boards follow the installation of a new LED lighting system, which was installed prior to the 2015-16 season.
Total cost for the video board components is expected to be $1.9 million, which will be paid for entirely with gift funds. Fundraising will continue in an effort to further enrich Mackey with additional projects and for promotional activities around the 50-year celebration.
Per Purdue, the projected will be handled by Anthony James Partners out of Richmond, Va., a company that's done work in recent years for Notre Dame, Ohio State and Oregon, as well as for the NFL's Green Bay Packers and NBA's Portland Trailblazers.
The enhancements to Mackey Arena fall in line with an across-the-board series of facility upgrades for Purdue, which is in the midst of adding football's $65-million training center and planning for further upgrades to Ross-Ade Stadium in the years to come.
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