Purdue is seeking funding for a new football performance complex. (Renderings courtesy of Populous)

WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue president Mitch Daniels and vice president and director of intercollegiate athletics Morgan Burke announced today that they will seek approval at the December meeting of the Board of Trustees to construct a $60 million football performance complex.

The project will be the first significant renovation of the Mollenkopf Athletic Center since its construction in 1989.

The football performance complex will be built adjacent to the north end of Mollenkopf. The three-level structure will become the everyday home of the football program – totaling 110,000 square feet – and will include a locker room, players’ lounge, team meeting room, position group meeting rooms, sports performance training area, sports medicine facility, and coaches’ offices, as well as a lobby that will highlight the Boilermakers’ history and tradition.

If approved by Trustees, construction would begin in May of 2016 and conclude in August of 2017. In keeping with its tradition of athletic self-sufficiency, no student fees or state support will be used for the project. It will be funded by donors and revenue from Intercollegiate Athletics contracts with the Big Ten Network and other media. Purdue Athletics is a self-supporting auxiliary enterprise.