The Beaver Stadium makeover is full steam ahead.

The $700 million plan to revitalize the home of Penn State football began on January 4, 2025, and construction crews are already eyeing its completion. 

Head coach Matt Campbell recently toured the construction site to get a glimpse of his new home and to speak with the workers who have poured their hearts and souls into the project.

“It is my honor to represent this, and I can promise all of you, all this hard work you’re putting in to make this really special, we’re going to put that same work behind the scenes to make the product on the field really special,” Campbell said. “We’ll look forward to making you proud this fall.”

Bigger, better and built for the future.

An inside look at the @Beaver_Stadium progress with Coach Campbell. pic.twitter.com/2K5k37oP8B

— Penn State Football (@PennStateFball) June 5, 2026

While fans shouldn’t expect a finished product for the 2026 season just yet, they can look for a more completed version of Beaver Stadium on gamedays this coming fall.

“We will have the east main concourse fully widened, we’ll have [seats ready in] the upper seating bowl, we’ll have the club, basically all of our structure will be 100% done,” Mike Abbondante said, the senior project manager of Barton Malow.

When it comes to the stadium’s interior, folks will have to wait a little longer to see the detailed renderings realized. 

“One of the challenges of a project of this nature is we’re building vertical structure, but there’s a lot of interior and detailed work that’s occurring between our framing,” Abbondante said. “We’re really having to dance, in a way, between getting the structure up, making sure we’re ready for a 2026 season with our seating and our capacity.”

Looking ahead to the conclusion of the 2026 season, the Barton Malow team will need to remove all seating in the lower bowl on the west side to widen seat spacing and improve the fan experience.

New concession points will also be added throughout the concourse.

A focal point of the changes will be a panoramic view of the mountain range in the new 35,000-square-foot Marzano Club, thanks to a sloped glass wall lining the all-new.

One of the things that has stood out about the renovations has been the height alteration. When all is said and done, there will be an additional seating level that begins at the same altitude as the original press box. The west side will tower over what it used to be, with the new wall-like structure adding to the deafening sound of gameday in Happy Valley.

The project is expected to be completed prior to the 2027 Penn State football season. As of right now, it is still unclear what the 2026 and final capacities will be.

While construction was underway during the 2025 season, Beaver Stadium maintained over 106,000 seats thanks to three sections of temporary bleachers.