LAFAYETTE — The interior of the Cajundome is almost unrecognizable for those who have seen an event there at some point in the arena’s 31 years, and that has made Cajundome operations manager Phil Ashurst a happy man.
“We’re right on schedule, maybe a couple days ahead on a couple items,” Ashurst said. “The arena bowl is a very different place than people are used to seeing.”
In the place of the basketball court or ice floor is a crane that is lifting roughly one-ton sections of precast concrete into place to serve as the framework of the Cajundome’s new first level, replacing the old fold-up seating sections.