A groundbreaking ceremony for the new University of Alabama at Birmingham Intramural Fields was held Thursday, Oct. 12. The fields will be located at 1101 Fifth Ave. South. Self-parking will be available at the event site. The fields are a joint project between UAB Student Affairs and Campus Recreation through the UAB Facilities Division. Campus Recreation will oversee the fields, as well as program and schedule them.

The fields will feature lights and scoreboards as well as a building that will have all-gender bathrooms, a water bottle filling station, fountains and storage for the fields. The facility is scheduled to open in fall 2018, with the first flag football game scheduled in September. Two games can be played at once, and the fields will be strategically rotated, so the grass fields do not wear away as quickly. The architect is Holcombe Norton Partners, Inc. The general contractor is Sports Turf Company, Inc.