What Georgia's Foley Field project upgrades are expected to include for Bulldog baseball

While designs on major upgrades to Foley Field are still being finalized, some of the features of the project are coming into clearer focus.

Still in the plans are a player’s lounge, an indoor hitting cage, pitching lab, coaches’ offices, added premium seating and an extended canopy that will offer more shading to fans at the baseball stadium that currently seats 2,760.

Athletic director Josh Brooks showed images to the UGA athletic board on Tuesday at its winter meeting at the Georgia Center.

The board will be asked to approve funding for the project in the spring when a price tag will be revealed. It’s possible the project could cost more than triple the $12 million of renovations done at the last major upgrades in 2015.

Construction for this project is expected to be completed in time for the 2025 season, which is later than originally anticipated due to rising construction costs, Brooks said previously. A first phase of construction with underground utility work will being in the summer. Georgia is behind most other SEC teams in the baseball facility arms race.

"We all feel and know that Foley Field's got that Wrigley Field (vibe)," Brooks said after the meeting. "It's set in a great setting, but really to take that to add on to it and add first class player amenities I think it can elevate Foley to an even better experience."

LED lighting and upgrades to the sound system are also possible at Foley. Brooks said replacing the turf and remodeling the clubhouse could come in the next offseason.

Plans for a weight room on the third base side are expected to be scrapped, but more space will be freed in the current Stegeman Coliseum training facility weight room with other sports moving to a new weight room at the soccer/softball complex on S. Milledge, Brooks told the board.

Extending the canopy could offer shaded seating throughout the existing grandstand. It currently covers about a third of the grandstand. That would also offer additional premium areas with loges—seating for 4, 6 or 8--on the first and third base sides with an new entry point on the third base area from the street.

This article originally appeared on Athens Banner-Herald: Here's the latest on Georgia baseball upgrades at Foley Field