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Post by brewcityitalian on Feb 6, 2013 22:02:48 GMT -6
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Post by uwmfansince1997 on Feb 8, 2013 13:01:13 GMT -6
Interesting listening to him talk about digging down to add more seats to the high school gym. How about parking?
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Post by PantherU on Feb 8, 2013 14:02:03 GMT -6
Interesting listening to him talk about digging down to add more seats to the high school gym. How about parking? Have you been to a game this year? Parking has not been an issue. If there is a Loyola-style renovation in the near future, we may be OK. But acquiring and renovating the Cell has to be an option. |
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Feb 8, 2013 14:48:23 GMT -6
Interesting listening to him talk about digging down to add more seats to the high school gym. How about parking? Have you been to a game this year? Parking has not been an issue. If there is a Loyola-style renovation in the near future, we may be OK. But acquiring and renovating the Cell has to be an option. That parking is great for games like last night's snowstorm. How many levels does that parking lot go down? |
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Post by mwu on Feb 8, 2013 15:48:06 GMT -6
There are 6 levels in the Pavilion Garage.
We are a very different school than Loyola, whats good for them is not necessarily good for us. We don't really have a lot in common with Loyola other than we play in the same league. Their revamp of the Gentile Center made sense for their school. A carbon-copy design idea wouldn't fulfill our needs. If worst came to worst and we were to do a "Loyola Style" renovation, we need to not make the same mistakes they did.
I think Jimmy is right on, in that a Cell remodel should be on the table for us. We should be taking design precedents from schools like Bowling Green and Northern Iowa.
(Or the School could just build my Thesis project...)
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Post by uwmfansince1997 on Feb 9, 2013 13:36:32 GMT -6
Interesting listening to him talk about digging down to add more seats to the high school gym. How about parking? Have you been to a game this year? Parking has not been an issue. If there is a Loyola-style renovation in the near future, we may be OK. But acquiring and renovating the Cell has to be an option. Yes haven't missed a game. The closes game to a sell out was the UWGB. And yes, parking wasn't an issue because majority of the students filled up the seats. On the otherhand, If we double our seating capacity (which I'm sure we will easily), the neighbors around the university, will ask"where's the parking accommodation going to be"? |
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Post by DunneDeal on Feb 9, 2013 16:13:22 GMT -6
Pavillion Parking and the Northwest Quad parking structure should be plenty of parking, and dont start with the will its a walk, when in fact, every other HL school does have a bit of walk to their arenas.
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Post by freshmilwaukee on Feb 9, 2013 19:54:30 GMT -6
Roughly 2700 parking spaces on campus, not including the CSM Parking Garage. Attachments:
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Post by panther9193 on Feb 10, 2013 15:11:10 GMT -6
If our plan is to renovate the Klotsche Center to increase capacity, we are doomed. The return to campus to increase student interest can only be judged as a complete failure. We need to drop this insistence that any arena be on campus. We can say we have 1000, 5000 or 50,000 parking spaces nearby, but people still won't come. The fact is people want other things to do when they go to games (dinner, drinks, etc.) and there are essentially none of those amenities around the campus. All you need to do is look at this year's attendance. Like it or not, outsiders do not want to come to campus.
We need to draw fans from the community, not just focus on students. To do this, I see two options:
1. Buying the Cell and making it our own. It is downtown with plenty of amenities making it more likely to draw casual fans. It could still be rented to organizations like the Wave which presents more revenue opportunities.
2. If it is not financially viable to buy the arena, build a new arena near downtown or North Avenue. Either are near bars and restaurants, again making it more likely draw casual fans.
Obviously the best way to draw fans is to have a consistently competitive and exciting team but placing the arena in the correct place opens better opportunities for growth. Building an arena on campus is setting our sights too small...smaller than we have over the past 20 years. If we want to build something on campus, build the practice facility there.
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