- WVU Cancels Mylan Park Plan
- The Pride of West Virginia Practice Facility will be built on the WVU campus
Exclusive – a Vernissage Magazine Investigation – Breaking News
The Pride of West Virginia Marching Band Practice Facility was originally intended to be built on the West Virginia University Evansdale Campus, specifically, on the site of Hawley Field, the university’s former baseball stadium. Donors contributed $1.25 million toward construction; enough money, the university announced in 2021, to build the facility’s first phase, which consisted of an artificial turf practice field, stadium lights, and a band director viewing tower.
But last year, on October 20, 2023, WVU announced that instead of the location explicitly promised to contributors, the Pride’s money would be used to build a field for band members to practice on at privately-owned Mylan Park, five miles off-campus.
Angry donors accused the university of bait-and-switch. Over the last five months, Vernissage Magazine has been investigating why and how the Mylan Park plan came about.
To date, six articles have appeared, including four articles in the current series of investigative articles.
After the most recent article, “Whose Field Is It?” was published on March 25, WVU announced it will build the Pride Practice Facility on-campus, as originally promised.
YOU CAN READ THE UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCEMENT HERE.