Mark Lamping

If you look at the outer edge of that steel, that's the width of the concourse.

The concourse is about four times the width that it is right now.

So if you ever find yourself on the main concourse during a Jaguars game or in the upper deck, there's significant crowding.

All that crowding will be relieved because there'll be significant more room for our fans to find their way.

But we got a long, long way to go.

We've currently completed 15% of the project.

We're progressing well.

We're on schedule, but have a long, long way to go.

Currently, there's an excess of 550 full-time workers working each day on this project, and that will continue to ramp up.

And one of the other commitments of this project, we always said that

If the end result was just a shiny new football stadium, then collectively I think we would have missed a huge opportunity.

We were really proud of not only the community benefits agreement, but also to make certain commitments to make sure that during the construction period our project benefited the community to the maximum that it could.

So

we call these community construction metrics, we're running ahead on all of them.

The local small and emerging businesses, we're running ahead of what our goal was.

Local business participation, we're running ahead.

In fact, as we sit here today, we've got over 140 local contractors that have already been doing work on this project, which also means a lot of local people are being put to work.

There's a big issue in the construction industry, in the building trades as it relates to getting labor in the pipeline.

That's why if you listen to Hayes' radio station, you'll hear Miller Electric recruiting for employees to come through their training program.

So we had a goal in terms of trying to include as many apprentices as we can't could on this project.