FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas athletics director Hunter Yurachek said Thursday there are not immediate plans to renovate Bud Walton Arena.
During a question-and-answer session at a Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Yurachek said he and his staff are in the early stages of re-examining a feasibility study for the arena.
“We started to conduct a feasibility study for Bud Walton Arena that was almost to its completion point in December of ’19, January of ’20, and this thing called covid hit,” Yurachek said. “That really got put on the back burner. We’re starting to dust that off.
“Bud Walton Arena is 27 years old now.