MCKINNEY, Texas – The McKinney Independent School District is planning to build a $70 million football stadium, making it the most expensive high school stadium in the nation.

It also happens to be about $10 million awesomer than the $60 million stadium in the neighboring Allen Independent School District, the Los Angeles Times reports.

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“Oh, it’s a rivalry,” McKinney North High School junior Adam Blanchet told the news site. “I have pride knowing my district is going to have the most expensive stadium in the country.”

The new stadium, which serve the district’s three high schools, will replace a 7,000 seat stadium built in 1962. It’s funded by a $220 million bond package for facilities upgrades and will include a 500-seat event center, a 55-foot-wide high-definition video screen and artificial turf, and enough seating to accommodate half of the district’s 24,500 students at a single event, the Times reports.

About 62 percent of voters in May approved the facilities upgrades and stadium, which was originally slated to cost $63 million. School officials said the estimate was later increased to $70 million because of spiking concrete prices, WFAA reports, though they plan to use money left over from the last bond to cover the gap.

Other Texas school districts constructing large stadiums have scaled back plans because of rising concrete prices, the Dallas Morning News reports.

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“From the time they first talked to contractors about price to when they got a firm bid the price went up 50 percent,” McKinney ISD spokesman Cody Cunningham told the news site. “We decided this is something that we’ll be using for 50 or 60 years so we want to do it right.”

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Cunningham defended the massively expensive stadium as “part of the package” of attracting new residents to McKinney.

“It’s like our mayor will say,” Cunningham told the Times. “You don’t need dog parks, but they’re an amenity that people enjoy and appreciate and are willing to pay for.”

He also countered claims from critics that the district’s focus on football distracts comes at the expense of academics by pointing to the district’s 96 percent high school graduation rate.

“We believe that we can do both,” he said.

“The average SAT score in the district, according to Texas education records, is 1576 – more than 150 points above the state average,” the Times reports.

And despite the massive price tag for the new stadium, taxes in McKinney will actually go down because the district paid off old debt.

According to Fox News, “the stadium will top a $62.5 million, 12,000 seat facility under construction in Katy and a $60 million stadium that opened in Allen in 2014 to become the costliest ever to host prep pigskin.”

Both the stadium in McKinney and the one currently under construction in Katy are expected to open in time to kickoff the 2017 football season.

The group Grassroots McKinney told the news site members are “disappointed” by the expensive new stadium, which is set to break ground this month, but acknowledged that “the people have spoken.”