[browna]

Not sure the handwringing about the concourse. It will be fine like virtually every other building.

It was a problem here because of:
A) The Chrysler display in the west entrance.
B)The additional vendors that took space along the ends and corners, such as the three or four hard liquor bars and other vendors that lined the concourse walls and stuck out into the concourse.

Those things that took floor space away were not in the design plans in 1980, for a rink, recall, that was over 20k capacity when opened.

It was a worse layout before 1995 reno with the stair wells going up to the double lettered sections, but really, there was more floor space in the concourse as you could walk "under" the upper sections, but in the renos, they removed the concourse stairs but then replaced that area that was under the upper sections, by all those additional vendors you see when entering the main doors. So while there was less obstructions to mauneuver around, there was also less floor space. Again, capacity before the reno was 1500 seats or so more than after.