The Burton Football Family Complex

Gift Level

$2,500,000

Status

Named

Named By

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The University of Connecticut football team enjoys one of the finest on-campus football facilities in the country — thanks in large part to the building of The Burton Family Football Complex. The Burton Family Football Complex serves as the on-campus home of UConn football and complements Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field in East Hartford. The lead gift for the facility was a $2.5 million contribution by Robert G. Burton. Burton’s tremendously successful business career has included leadership in the printing and publishing industry and his current role as Chairman and CEO of Cenveo, a company that encompasses more than two dozen entities in over 100 facilities across the U.S., as well as manufacturing operations in Asia, South America and Central America and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. Burton’s son, Michael, was the captain of the 1999 Husky football team. Burton also has donated in excess of $1 million to establish two endowed scholarships for UConn student-athletes. Construction on the facility began in fall 2004 and the building opened in the summer of 2006. The Burton Family Football Complex houses coaches’ offices and includes an academic resource center, team meeting rooms, a team locker room, a state-of-the-art sports medicine area, video facilities, a team dining hall, a student-athlete lounge and an equipment room. The Burton Family Football Complex, along with the Mark R. Shenkman Training Center, were the University’s first projects certified as meeting the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards for “green” buildings. LEED designation is a process certifying that a building project meets a wide range of environmentally friendly criteria. This new construction marked the first college or university athletics project in the nation to earn the designation. The UConn Division of Athletics received an Environmental Leadership Award from the University of Connecticut for the work performed at The Burton Family Football Complex.