Byrne & Jones Completes $24M Athletic Field Improvements at Missouri State University

SPRINGFIELD, MO. — Byrne & Jones Sports has completed $24 million in new construction of several new athletic and recreation facilities at Missouri State University. The St. Louis-based company relocated the school’s track and built a new artificial turf football field closer to the west bleachers. A new NCAA-regulation, eight-lane track was also built as part of the new synthetic turf soccer field. The new track incudes steeple chase, long jump, triple jump, high jump, pole vault and a warm up running area. Byrne & Jones also installed a shock pad to improve safety, play and the durability for a new field hockey surface installed by SportsTurf. Springfield, Mo.-based general contractor DeWitt and Associates Inc. managed the overall improvements. Hastings + Chivetta Architects Inc. was the architect for the project.