Turn Off Ads?
Results 1 to 2 of 2

Thread: New UC arena and renovated stadium

  1. #1
    The Future GoReds33's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2007
    Location
    Cincinnati, Ohio
    Posts
    2,468

    New UC arena and renovated stadium

    http://georgetownnews.com/articles/2...s/sports01.txt

    Chris Hughes of the Georgetown News-Graphic has a story today, detailing proposed plans for a new UC basketball arena, and a renovated Nippert Stadium. The arena would seat 16,001, and the football stadium would have 40,001 seats. The football stadium would also get 29 luxury suites. All this would come at a cost of 240 million dollars.

    Lance from 1360 has some photos on his blog.
    http://www.1530homer.com/pages/lancesBlog.html
    Last edited by GoReds33; 01-06-2008 at 04:08 PM.
    If you can't build a winning team with that core a fire-sale isn't the solution. Selling the franchise, moving them to Nashville and converting GABP into a used car lot is.
    -LTlabner


  2. Turn Off Ads?
  3. #2
    SERP Emeritus paintmered's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2001
    Location
    Cbus
    Posts
    7,256

    Re: New UC arena and renovated stadium

    Neat graphics. UC would need to pay off Varsity Villiage before attempting something like this. I would have liked to see the capacity for Nippert in the 45,000 range as well. There's still the option to use Paul Brown Stadium for schools like Ohio State, Oklahoma and Notre Dame. The first two schools will play there in the coming years.

    The Shoemaker Center has enough floor space for 7 full size basketball courts. I think the floor space could satisfy the requirements for an indoor practice facility for football and other sports. The 'Shoe was built as a multi-purpose facility and there was a real need for court space when it was built. The university no longer has that need since Lidner Hall has a practice gym in it, especially if the new area is built. There could be no more complaints about substandard facilities under this plan, that's for sure.

    Daniels, Dabney and Sander are all outdated and substandard. I doubt anyone would miss them. I spent a year in Daniels and is severely outclassed by Tuner and Schneider Halls (opened in 2002). The university would have to build new student housing for 1,500 - 2,000 under this plan. I'm not sure if there's any land left to do it. There is some space where Sawyer was torn down recently. The only other realistic space left is the parking lot next to the Marge Schott Stadium unless land is bought on the other side of Jefferson. And who knows what's going to happen with the Calhoun Street project.
    Last edited by paintmered; 01-06-2008 at 09:09 PM.
    All models are wrong. Some of them are useful.


Turn Off Ads?

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  

Board Moderators may, at their discretion and judgment, delete and/or edit any messages that violate any of the following guidelines: 1. Explicit references to alleged illegal or unlawful acts. 2. Graphic sexual descriptions. 3. Racial or ethnic slurs. 4. Use of edgy language (including masked profanity). 5. Direct personal attacks, flames, fights, trolling, baiting, name-calling, general nuisance, excessive player criticism or anything along those lines. 6. Posting spam. 7. Each person may have only one user account. It is fine to be critical here - that's what this board is for. But let's not beat a subject or a player to death, please.

Thank you, and most importantly, enjoy yourselves!


RedsZone.com is a privately owned website and is not affiliated with the Cincinnati Reds or Major League Baseball


Contact us: Boss | Gallen5862 | Plus Plus | Powel Crosley | RedlegJake | The Operator