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And it will be an awesome addition indeed!

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/12/firs...ary_t.html

That looks awesome. I'll definitely be using that.

That will be awesome.

If you drive east from 20th Street on 1st Ave South, you will see the potential for a walking / biking trail all the way to 41st Street in Avondale (ending at the old Mazer's location there). With a lot of imaginative engineering (and the required financial backing), it might even be extended one day all the way to the Ruffner Mountain Park area.

Imagine a "green trail" all the way from Ruffner Mountain to downtown and then west from there following the tracks toward Harrison Park and points west.

Now if the city would start to spend some money just a little north of that, things might be better there as well

(12-29-2013 11:12 PM)blazerwkr Wrote:  Now if the city would start to spend some money just a little north of that, things might be better there as well

If you are talking about the MPF, I am sure the city would be glad to do so, but that kind of undertaking requires much more financial backing than ANY city can supply alone. Now if the metro area would join in, the state has said it will go along, and it might just getter' done. Even a rich city like Atlanta can't build a MPF alone.

There is already a bunch of things lined up for North Downtown Birmingham as well as Southside Birmingham. As far as what is related to UAB, well that is up to UAB and the BOT isn't it?

The MPF is about to rear its head again. I'm at the point it will be a nice place to play until we can build our own facility. It would help perception and recruiting.

Build a football building. Fix the practice field and play in the MPF until we can do our own thing. It would be nice to open that facility on a Thursday or Friday night against a big name opponent.

As far as the trail great news. I am working with that firm on a couple of projects and have completed another with them. Good folks. They will do a good job with the final design.

Can you give any insight on the timeframe/likelihood of a MPF announcement?

(12-29-2013 11:26 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

(12-29-2013 11:12 PM)blazerwkr Wrote:  Now if the city would start to spend some money just a little north of that, things might be better there as well

If you are talking about the MPF, I am sure the city would be glad to do so, but that kind of undertaking requires much more financial backing than ANY city can supply alone. Now if the metro area would join in, the state has said it will go along, and it might just getter' done. Even a rich city like Atlanta can't build a MPF alone.

Actually I was referring to LF, if it's what we're stuck in for the forseeable future they should pump SOME money into it even if it is putting "lipstick on a pig" instead of allowing it to rot as it makes them look as bad as it does us.

(12-30-2013 10:23 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  The MPF is about to rear its head again. I'm at the point it will be a nice place to play until we can build our own facility. It would help perception and recruiting.

Build a football building. Fix the practice field and play in the MPF until we can do our own thing. It would be nice to open that facility on a Thursday or Friday night against a big name opponent.

As far as the trail great news. I am working with that firm on a couple of projects and have completed another with them. Good folks. They will do a good job with the final design.

A recruiting advantage of the MPF is that until a OCS is actually in place, it can host "official recruiting visits" for UAB football. That NCAA rule was one of the minor reasons for Bama moving all its home games to Tuscaloosa where it has its "home stadium".

The MPF will get done eventually and I think when that happens, you can kiss an OCS for UAB goodbye!

(03-20-2014 05:30 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  The MPF will get done eventually and I think when that happens, you can kiss an OCS for UAB goodbye!

A lot will have to be worked out between the city and UAB before the MPF would make the OCS impossible, but you could be right. If Regions Park had been built before Young Field, would UAB have spent its scarce money and allocated its limited land for it anyways?

(03-20-2014 05:30 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  The MPF will get done eventually and I think when that happens, you can kiss an OCS for UAB goodbye!

This a thousand times. You guys who think that a domed stadium is just a stepping stone to an on campus stadium are delusional. I don't think a domed stadium at the BJCC is going to happen either, but if it does just stop talking about a UAB stadium and put TheGORILLA on suicide watch.