The Best Thing About The Chiefs Training Camp Coming To MWSU Is a New Student Parking Lot!

That's right! You have all read it the right way. The best thing about the Chiefs training camp coming to MWSU as far as students are concerned is the new parking lot planned for the area just behind the press box at Spratt Stadium where the current women's softball facilities are located. This is the parking lot students have cried out for, for so many years! If you have ever had to contend with the parking situation trying to get to a class at MWSU in a timely manner past 10 AM you can truly appreciate this post!

The new parking lot is estimated to handle a minimum of 500 vehicles according to Jeff Ellison, lead architect for the new MWSU athletic facility construction. Can you imagine, 500 new parking spaces close to the majority of campus classrooms? Students at MWSU have been complaining since the days of MWSC to have the administration approve of additional parking on campus. In the mid to late 1980's parking became the number one complaint and concern for students. Since that time little or nothing has been done about this situation for commuter students. For over twenty years Missouri Western's enrollment continues to rise in terms of commuter students yet there have not been any additional parking lots added to campus except the resident hall parking lot off of 51st street that is of no benefit to regularly commuting students.

Call me crazy, but in this blogger's opinion, the best thing other than the obvious economic impact the Chiefs training camp leaves behind will be the facilities and improved parking created for full-time students. This new parking lot will be looked forward to as much as the Chiefs training camp.