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Originally Posted by The Familia
Like I had feared....I'm underwhelmed and disappointed with what I am seeing so far. None of the buildings strike me as cutting edge.
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You do know that those are not renderings of the actual design, right?
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The whole facility looks like a jumbled mess and a huge hunk of concrete.
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That would be because those are not renderings of the actual design. They pulled graphics from here, there, and everywhere to give people a general idea of what they have in mind.
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The field house is what I feared, a giant gymnasium with bleachers.
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That would be because those are not renderings of the actual design.
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It does not look like a stadium and the track ruins the sight lines no matter if the seats can retract or not.
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I fail to see how that is the case. You might as well say that the end concert stage at the Saddledome ruins the sight lines in the lower bowl, no matter if the seats can retract or not.
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The inside looks like a school gym.
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You do know that those are not renderings of the actual design, right?
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The roof must be transparent with operable windows if there is no retractable roof.
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You do know that those are not renderings of the actual design, right?
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Capacity is too small, should be 35,000.
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Why is 35,000 a magic number? Do you have hard numbers to support that, or did you, as I suspect, just pull it out of your posterior fundamental orifice?
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The arena? Good God what is that mess?
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It's a cheap mockup done in a cheap 3-D program, and not a rendering of the actual design.
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A giant lower bowl and then what appears as countless rings of office windows? Also looks bland. Obviously these are not the final plans nor final renderings,
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Hey, we seem to have comprehension at last! But then you say this:
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but a project that was supposed to build excitement after all these years is a major letdown. If this is the final plan
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It isn't. You do know that those are not renderings of the actual design, right?
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I vote NO to providing a single penny of government money.
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Right. Better to spend the $200m on a stand-alone fieldhouse, which will have all the drawbacks you just mentioned, and then never build a new arena or football stadium at all.