Cal's effort to reshape Memorial Stadium into a multiuse facility took a step forward Monday, when the university announced plans to add the School of Public Policy and the university Visitor Center as full-time tenants.
Outside food vendors also are expected to lease space in the stadium, and a two-level parking lot will be built below the adjacent Maxwell Field. The Berkeley-Haas Innovation Lab became the stadium's first academic tenant in September, and a recreational-sports fitness center opened soon thereafter.
"This is all part of a plan we've been working on for quite a while," Vice Chancellor John Wilton said in a phone interview. "It's significant because it produces another source of revenue for the facilities, and that revenue is not dependent on the ups and downs of a football season. It just makes a lot of sense."
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