The Owner Needs Someone to Pay for a New Facility

The CEO has teased a site has been chosen, but doesn't look like it's downtown, nor would the Suns be involved. That leaves ASU or the rez.

 

Angels looking for a new yard too, but considering the Big A turned 50 this season, seems justified.

 

Yeah, but the Big A has been renovated down to the blocks, what, two or three times?

 

If nothing else, today's day game in Arlington was a good advertisement for a domed stadium. A four-hour death march with actual peak of 105° and heat index pushing 115°.

 

Sacramento voted no twice on the arena, big time. So Mayor Kevin Johnson hatched a schemes to lease the parking meters to a private company for 50 years. the company would pay an upfront fee for the meters that would go pay for much of the areana. This did not involve incurring debt so no vote was necessary. The sad part was Johnson was reelected anyway.

And if I remember correctly in Minnesota massive legal gymnastics took place to keep the measure from a vote.

 

Jesse Ventura was very much against public financing for stadiums when he was governor.

 

What's really going to be fun is when a generation of venerable college football stadiums need replacing. Even with proper upkeep and renovations, no facility lasts forever, and classics such as Ohio Stadium, the Rose Bowl and Neyland Stadium are approaching the century mark.

 

I think the Coyotes are still working things through and would take whichever possibility seems to have the best shot at success. They keep saying they're close to announcing a site but the announcement hasn't come yet.

ASU makes the most sense to me -- the school's current arena is kind of a dump, and hooking up with ASU greatly increases the odds of the project getting financed.

There are Phoenix city leaders working to get a new downtown arena for both the Suns and Coyotes. That seems like a slightly tougher sell.

Either ASU or downtown would be really good locations.

The rez is probably option number 3, but a great fallback if the tribe is willing to pay for the bulk of it. It doesn't have the allure of a downtown Phoenix or Tempe location but it would be light years better than the situation they have now.

 

They're doing a feasibility study currently on whether or not to build a new stadium at Penn State or give Beaver Stadium a Kyle Field-like renovation. I think what happened at Kyle will become the norm, with the older sections torn down and brand new foundations and structures going in their place.

 

Gosh, if only they'd known it gets hot in Texas in the summer back when they built the first stadium in Arlington.

(Not that the heat is real reason the owners want a new stadium.)

 

So this will be the third arena built in that area since the Suns left Veterans Memorial Coliseum 24 fucking years ago.