Post by BBFran on Feb 6, 2015 12:41:44 GMT -6
No, I'm not talking about our team, thankfully. I'm talking about the reaction I'm seeing in other quarters to the news reports that the Bucks will most likely build north of the BC. This is allegedly a disaster, a huge missed opportunity for the Bucks, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the World! Because if you didn't know, the site just north of the BC is in a vast wasteland, a no mans land near "the projects!," a site remote from humanity and commerce. Lost are any chance for new residential developments, new retail developments, new hotel developments, all of which (allegedly) would grow like flowers in the spring if only that old building that says UWM on it now could be destroyed.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I read this nonsense. First of all, the proposed site is about a brisk 45 second walk from the JS/Arena site. The existing bars and restaurants along Old World Third are literally just as close to the new site as to the BC. But what about new development, you ask? Who in their right mind would build anything near -- horrors -- the empty Park East corridor? Every morning when I come to work I drive down Vliet Street, then down the hill on Winnebago past the massive, still expanding Pabst multi-use development, until (all of two short blocks later) Winnebago turns into Juneau and you are at the proposed site of the new building. On the next block -- the next block -- stands the Moderne, a brand new 30 story apartment/condo building with a Carson's Steakhouse at street level. But what about hotels? You mean like the new Brewhouse Inn at the Pabst? Or how about the Aloft, built just three years ago at the corner of Juneau and Third? Has anyone noticed that the new world headquarters of Manpower is right down the block? Far from this being an area where development can't happen, it's an area that is already taking off. And if you look just north of McKinley, a literal stone's throw from the proposed site, what you see is a collection of old brick light industrial buildings that remind you of nothing so much as the old brick light industrial buildings in the Third Ward. Whatever happened to those buildings?
Let me be blunt. Anyone who thinks this is a bad site for the new arena has utterly no vision. They see neither what is already happening nor what the future could hold for bold development in that area.
Or maybe there's something else at play in their hysterical disappointment that the UWM Panther Arerna (and all its signage) may not be crushed by the wrecking ball as part of this process. Maybe there's another agenda.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I read this nonsense. First of all, the proposed site is about a brisk 45 second walk from the JS/Arena site. The existing bars and restaurants along Old World Third are literally just as close to the new site as to the BC. But what about new development, you ask? Who in their right mind would build anything near -- horrors -- the empty Park East corridor? Every morning when I come to work I drive down Vliet Street, then down the hill on Winnebago past the massive, still expanding Pabst multi-use development, until (all of two short blocks later) Winnebago turns into Juneau and you are at the proposed site of the new building. On the next block -- the next block -- stands the Moderne, a brand new 30 story apartment/condo building with a Carson's Steakhouse at street level. But what about hotels? You mean like the new Brewhouse Inn at the Pabst? Or how about the Aloft, built just three years ago at the corner of Juneau and Third? Has anyone noticed that the new world headquarters of Manpower is right down the block? Far from this being an area where development can't happen, it's an area that is already taking off. And if you look just north of McKinley, a literal stone's throw from the proposed site, what you see is a collection of old brick light industrial buildings that remind you of nothing so much as the old brick light industrial buildings in the Third Ward. Whatever happened to those buildings?
Let me be blunt. Anyone who thinks this is a bad site for the new arena has utterly no vision. They see neither what is already happening nor what the future could hold for bold development in that area.
Or maybe there's something else at play in their hysterical disappointment that the UWM Panther Arerna (and all its signage) may not be crushed by the wrecking ball as part of this process. Maybe there's another agenda.
