Fans have already purchased nearly all the seats between the goal lines on the west side of CSU's new on-campus stadium for the 2017 season and about 80 percent of all of the seats that require a donation, school officials said.

Memberships to the New Belgium Porch and Orthopaedic & Spine Center of the Rockies Field Club are going fast, too. Only 100 of the 1,200 memberships for $200 apiece to the New Belgium Porch, a patio area with two bars in the north end zone, are still available, and only about 30 of the 600 memberships at $400 apiece for the OCR Club located behind the Colorado State University team bench remained. Those memberships are add-ons available only to season ticket-holders.

"Those two (areas) kind of set us apart from any stadium in America, and our fans are really wanting to get involved in those areas," said David Crum, a senior associate athletic director for development during a media roundtable Thursday.

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The 1,600 seats available in premium seating areas – private suites, indoor and outdoor clubs and loge boxes – sold out last fall. Private suites designed to hold up to 16 fans sold for $35,000 to $45,000 apiece. Loge boxes sold for $16,000 for six seats and $12,000 for four seats. Indoor club seats were $2,300 apiece and outdoor club seats $1,500 each.

"We're thrilled about where we are at the moment," athletic director Joe Parker said. "We feel like public acceptance of the project is probably at the highest level ever. We have strong metrics to prove that what we though in theory was a good idea is proving to be just that, so we are seeing a strong response."

With the first round of the reseating process completed for fans renewing season tickets they held last year at Hughes Stadium and 2,400 new buyers still waiting to select their seats, season-ticket sales have topped 11,500. That's 500 more than CSU sold all last season. Chris Ferris, the university's senior associate AD for sales, marketing and communication, said last year 2,000 to 3,000 season ticket sales were purchased in late July and early August.

The new stadium will have 36,500 seats and a total capacity of 41,000. The 10,500 seats on the lower deck of the east stands are reserved for students, who will be admitted for free.

Eleven sets of three tickets apiece that will only be sold in sets of three also were still available in the priority seating areas of the west stands, Crum said. Most of the other priority seats remaining, those that require donations of $50 to $500 on top of the $225 cost of a season ticket, are in the east side upper deck and in the bottom 20 rows between the 10-yard lines.

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Crum expects most of those to be sold next week, when renewing season ticket-holders can buy additional tickets beyond the number they had last year at Hughes, or the following week when the selection process opens to new season ticket-holders.

Season tickets for all seats at the stadium are being sold for $225 apiece, the same price fans paid in 2016 at Hughes, with additional donations required for the prime seat locations. Five sections in the west stands not requiring donations, those from the 15-yard line to end zone, have also sold out.

Parker was part of major stadium renovation projects at Michigan, Oklahoma and Texas Tech and said he was quite familiar with the renovation of TCU's stadium, too. Crum worked at Minnesota during the construction and opening of its new stadium in 2012.

The reseating process at CSU, they said, has gone remarkably well.

Fans renewing tickets were able to select their seats at specific times over a six-week period, either in person working with CSU staffers or online.

Jay McCoy said he had three to four locations picked out ahead of time for the six tickets he was buying for his family, knowing some areas would fill up before his turn came. He logged in on his computer and made his purchase online.

"The system works well," McCoy said. "… I haven't talked to anybody who was disappointed."

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The school will begin selling mini-plans, allowing fans to select any three games at a discounted rate from the single-game prices for each of those games, June 26, with single-game tickets for the six home games in 2017 going on sale to alumni, faculty, staff and donors July 24 and to the general public July 26.

Single-game ticket prices, announced Thursday, are $77 for the opener against Oregon State and $35 to $42 for the other five games. The prices for each game are based on the expected demand, Parker said.

CSU has scheduled a dry run to open the game-day parking lots and stadium to fans Aug. 5 to help them find their way. Concession stands and a new Ram Zone store selling CSU gear will be open, and the 4,725 bricks, spelling out "RAMS" that fans purchased for the plaza at the north entrance will be unveiled.

Season ticket-holders will be able to pick up their tickets at the stadium that day, Parker said. Otherwise, they'll go out in the mail two days later.

Construction of the $220 million facility remains on time and on budget, Parker said. CSU is scheduled to start moving equipment and staff into the facility June 9.

"I'm excited about it," McCoy said. "Hughes was fine as a stadium; it was just built in the wrong place."

Hughes was built in 1968, three miles west of the CSU campus.

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Ticket timeline

June 2 – Deadline for season ticket-holders and donors to purchase upgraded seats for Sept. 1 game in Denver against Colorado and request additional tickets for home and away games

June 26 – Football mini-plans (any two home games and CU game in Denver or any three home games) on sale to general public

July 12 – Single-game tickets, priced at $37, to Rocky Mountain Showdown in Denver against CU on sale to general public

July 24 – Single-game ticket presale to CSU alumni, faculty, staff and donors

July 26 – Single-game tickets on sale to general public

Aug. 5 – Open house at new stadium

Aug. 7 – Season tickets mailed to those who have already purchased them

Aug. 26 – First game at 1 p.m. against Oregon State

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