New $53M Texas high school football stadium has state's largest video board



>> Keep clicking through the following gallery to see Texas' most expensive high school stadiums. less Prosper High School's new football stadium, which opens in less than ten days, will seat 12,000 fans and houses the largest video board of any Texas high school.

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The football stadiums in Texas just keeping getting bigger.

The latest cathedral to pigskin is the new $50+ million Children's Health Stadium, which will host Prosper (Texas) High School. Prosper is a northern suburb of Dallas.

In total, the stadium will seat 12,000 fans and houses the largest video board in any Texas high school stadium, football or otherwise.

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According to Gregg Riddle of the Dallas Morning News, the final construction cost for the building was $53 million.

That figure exceeded the $48 million planned cost projected by local Dallas NBC affiliate KXAS.

In addition, Children's Health Stadium is the first Texas high school stadium (per reports) to house an on-sideline ER medical tent. Yes, those are the same ones that you can observe in numerous college and NFL facilities.

The building also has a mobile x-ray machine and sideline cooling units, among many other medical tools.

Prosper opens the 2019 home schedule on Aug. 30, when it hosts Rowlett (Texas) High School.

Above you can see where this stadium ranks among the most expensive in the entire state of Texas.

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