The sun rises behind Kelly/Shorts Stadium on Oct. 17, 2015 before a home Chippewa football game.
Central Michigan football will play on new artificial turf in 2016.
Facilities Management Associate Vice President Steven Lawrence said Tuesday his department and the Athletics Department are in the process of finalizing designs for the field and hope to have contractors big for the project on Friday.
Lawrence said the design could possibly include a multi-colored field — alternating dark green and light green colored turf.
MSA Sports, an Ohio based architecture and design company, is being consulted to help develop the design, Lawrence said.