On second glimpse, the field house really looks generic for a football stadium or Mls down the road.
Seems like very calculated wording. "event center" not hockey arena and pushing the field house aspect over the stadium wording.
My guess is that this was going to be 3 buildings, which is why they have the comparison numbers. Probably after a lot of back and forth and lots of factors, they decided on two.
Atmosphere for the Stamps games, probably no worse then they are now with the McMahon setup, but creative seating or not on the field house, it looks like playing in a warehouse. It is only to be used 12 times a year as a football setup with 30k people, sure, but just looks entirely bland.
Be interesting to see how this progresses. Field house was key to get the city on board as that is needed for the general public (well amateur athletes anyways) and as I said, I think a compromise stadium was created as part of it to save money and appear more efficient to tax payers.
I'd say make a flexible, large field house up at the McMahon site and make the second building on the river into a multipurpose stadium with a little more character.
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