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Tiger Stadium expansion approved

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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) -

LSU's governing board voted and approved Friday to back a $100 million construction plan that would add new seats to Tiger Stadium, nearing its capacity to 100,000 people and bumping it higher on the list of the largest university stadiums in the nation.

According to LSU, about 7,000 seats will be added, most of them the luxury box variety.

Work has already begun on the area around the stadium to spruce it up in advance of construction.

The target completion for the south end zone expansion is 2014 or 2015.

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