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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Apr 16, 2014 11:50:48 GMT -6
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Post by skrapheap on Apr 16, 2014 12:23:34 GMT -6
What becomes of the Bradley Center if a new arena is built for the Bucks?
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Apr 16, 2014 12:27:47 GMT -6
What becomes of the Bradley Center if a new arena is built for the Bucks? Parking lot. Keep in mind the new arena is more than just the Bucks. |
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Post by Lutzow10 on Apr 16, 2014 12:41:02 GMT -6
If it is a surface lot i will be pissed. It should be parking garage with first floor commercial space. This city has far too many surface lots wasting valuable space and only giving limited parking spots.
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Post by JG Panthers on Apr 16, 2014 14:02:29 GMT -6
Another likely major hit for the Milwaukee men's basketball program and a likely big time benefit for Marquette.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Apr 16, 2014 14:58:28 GMT -6
Another likely major hit for the Milwaukee men's basketball program and a likely big time benefit for Marquette. Why is this a hit for the Panthers? |
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Post by jhart05 on Apr 16, 2014 15:11:59 GMT -6
Well, I thought I heard they still need $200MM to $300MM more for the new arena.
That's not going to be an easy sell to the City of Milwaukee taxpayer.
I expect once they vote "no" it will be pushed to the 5 County Area.
At that point, I don't think we'll get public vote on it. It will just happen.
Personally I don't watch NBA ball. So, don't care if we have an NBA team or not. I take that back. I go when I get free suite tickets from some bank thru work. Otherwise, I only go in the Bradley Center for Admirals Hockey and it's just fine for minor league hockey, althou the seating stinks. No leg room at all. And I sit center ice, what is probably $100+ seats for the Bucks.
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Post by JG Panthers on Apr 16, 2014 15:36:18 GMT -6
Another likely major hit for the Milwaukee men's basketball program and a likely big time benefit for Marquette. Why is this a hit for the Panthers? I'm making an assumption that they may have to raze the Cell to make room for a new arena complex, thus leaving Marquette with a state of the art arena to lease and Milwaukee to figure something else out that they are not nearly ready for. |
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Post by jhart05 on Apr 16, 2014 16:01:14 GMT -6
I'm making an assumption that they may have to raze the Cell to make room for a new arena complex, thus leaving Marquette with a state of the art arena to lease and Milwaukee to figure something else out that they are not nearly ready for. I thought you were going a different way. That wouldn't happen. The footprint of The Arena is simply not big enough for the type of palace that is "needed" these days for a NBA team. |
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Post by PantherU on Apr 16, 2014 16:35:52 GMT -6
The footprint of the Arena isn't big enough for the Bradley Center, about 500,000 square feet. The average new NBA arena comes in about 750,000 square feet. No way the Cell gets razed.
That said, I personally would propose that if the local taxpayer is involved in any way in the construction of the new arena, that said taxpayer's local D-I public university be allowed as a tenant in the facility free of charge.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Apr 16, 2014 17:23:25 GMT -6
Well, I thought I heard they still need $200MM to $300MM more for the new arena. That's not going to be an easy sell to the City of Milwaukee taxpayer. I expect once they vote "no" it will be pushed to the 5 County Area. At that point, I don't think we'll get public vote on it. It will just happen. Personally I don't watch NBA ball. So, don't care if we have an NBA team or not. I take that back. I go when I get free suite tickets from some bank thru work. Otherwise, I only go in the Bradley Center for Admirals Hockey and it's just fine for minor league hockey, althou the seating stinks. No leg room at all. And I sit center ice, what is probably $100+ seats for the Bucks. It shouldn't matter if you like the NBA or not. It matters in what an arena with 180 plus events brings to the city. Look for this to be paid for by private investors. |
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Post by skrapheap on Apr 17, 2014 6:01:26 GMT -6
Somewhere in all the coverage, I read that Herb Kohl is planning on using part of the proceeds of the sale to help fund the new arena.
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Post by DunneDeal on Apr 17, 2014 6:52:50 GMT -6
I think the new arena should be just north of the current arena, in the dead space that was the Park East Freeway. The BC becomes like someone said a parking structure (gives more choices for Panther fans to Park) with restaurants/shopping/entertainment on the street levels. Then you sell the current parking structure to MATC (they use it now anyway).
This keeps the arena downtown, and still close to nightlife and bars within walking distance. Freeway access is right there in terms on McKinley Ave
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Post by BBFran on Apr 17, 2014 7:08:13 GMT -6
There is absolutely no need for a new arena funded with hundreds of millions of taxpayer funds except to enrich the billionaire Bucks owners who will personally capitalize on it like Selig did with Miller Park. The Bradley Center is already sufficient for every other kind of event you could realistically hold in Milwaukee in the next twenty years. As for the Bucks, I'll go to as many Bucks games in a new arena as I have gone to in the BC. I believe that amounts to about 3 in 25 years, all schmoozes. The best players in the world not giving a damn as they play by the worst basketball rules ever devised. Feel the NBA excitement!
There will be a rush of interest, some increased attendance for a few years, and then everybody will figure out that the Bucks are still the small market Bucks. Remember when the Orlando Magic was all that? Or the Cavaliers?
On a return on investment basis, we'd be immensely better off to drop $300 mil into basic infrastructure. But that's not sexy enough for the politicians and playboys.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Apr 17, 2014 7:37:13 GMT -6
Well, the new arena will not be built with 300 million dollars of taxpayers money. I'm pretty sure the new owners know that. The new arena is a must to keep Milwaukee in the right direction moving forward.
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