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UT announced the actual plans for renovating Savage Hall today and it made me wonder; are there currently any conference basketball arenas that have individual luxury boxes and/or loges?

-Dan

We are actually dropping ours in the remodeled MACC plans. With the seats so close to the floor, no one wants to sit in the box.

EMU's Convo has eight furnished luxury suites and private meeting rooms.

A couple of links:

http://www.emueagles.com/Sports/gen/2005...Center.asp

http://www.emich.edu/convocation/convocation.html

HuronDave Wrote:EMU's Convo has eight furnished luxury suites and private meeting rooms.

A couple of links:

http://www.emueagles.com/Sports/gen/2005...Center.asp

http://www.emich.edu/convocation/convocation.html

Thanks for the links, Dave.

Wait a minute... EMU didn't sell out its opener vs. Michigan?

-Dan

NIU's Convocation center has some. First link is some info. Second is a virtual tour of the convo including the 2 suite sizes. You are going to need Quicktime for the second link. Don't forget to check out the suite menu.


http://www.convocenter.niu.edu/info/suites.html

http://www.convocenter.niu.edu/events/mu...arena.html

Photodan Wrote:

HuronDave Wrote:EMU's Convo has eight furnished luxury suites and private meeting rooms.

A couple of links:

http://www.emueagles.com/Sports/gen/2005...Center.asp

http://www.emich.edu/convocation/convocation.html

Thanks for the links, Dave.

Wait a minute... EMU didn't sell out its opener vs. Michigan?

-Dan

Im pretty sure that game wasnt at home. It was a tournament or something, I dont really remember

yeah CMU is either going to gut out rose and give it a complete makeover, seating I heard would be around 7k OR build a new events center from ground up seating around 9500 I last heard. I guess there are discussions underway on which way to go. I hope it is soon b/c our arena although provides an intimate place to watch games, is not easy on the eyes.

While Akron has the stadium on the front burner, Dambrot will be pushing for the new basketball arena, as well. If things continue as they have, it might come sooner than later.

bigbear Wrote:While Akron has the stadium on the front burner, Dambrot will be pushing for the new basketball arena, as well. If things continue as they have, it might come sooner than later.

Where is Akron getting all this money from? They just built a really nice IPF and they have plans to build a $50 million football stadium. Where are they going to get money for a new basketball arena?

epasnoopy Wrote:

bigbear Wrote:While Akron has the stadium on the front burner, Dambrot will be pushing for the new basketball arena, as well. If things continue as they have, it might come sooner than later.

Where is Akron getting all this money from? They just built a really nice IPF and they have plans to build a $50 million football stadium. Where are they going to get money for a new basketball arena?

Not to mention we just spent 21 million to purchase the 9 acre Quaker Square Hotel complex as a dorm. That 50 million figure is for just the stadium. The entire project with dorms, parking, and retail space will be hundreds of million of dollars. It will be the second largest project in UA history behind the 300 million landscape for learning, and it will probably be the most drastic of the upgrades in the MAC. I would not be suprised at all if a push for a new arena began after this project.

akronzip Wrote:

epasnoopy Wrote:

bigbear Wrote:While Akron has the stadium on the front burner, Dambrot will be pushing for the new basketball arena, as well. If things continue as they have, it might come sooner than later.

Where is Akron getting all this money from? They just built a really nice IPF and they have plans to build a $50 million football stadium. Where are they going to get money for a new basketball arena?

Not to mention we just spent 21 million to purchase the 9 acre Quaker Square Hotel complex as a dorm. That 50 million figure is for just the stadium. The entire project with dorms, parking, and retail space will be hundreds of million of dollars. It will be the second largest project in UA history behind the 300 million landscape for learning, and it will probably be the most drastic of the upgrades in the MAC. I would not be suprised at all if a push for a new arena began after this project.

Exactly, where is that money coming from? I would assume you guys tapped out your alumni after that $300 million campaign. Then even moreso with a $50 million stadium and the millions more you just mentioned for extras.

cmufanatic Wrote:yeah CMU is either going to gut out rose and give it a complete makeover, seating I heard would be around 7k OR build a new events center from ground up seating around 9500 I last heard. I guess there are discussions underway on which way to go. I hope it is soon b/c our arena although provides an intimate place to watch games, is not easy on the eyes.

Thank god for that capacity upgrade. Maybe now they can satisfy that ticket crunch that has left so many CMU fans unable to find a seat in Rose Arena.

PhotoDan-We almost sold out that game. I was there in 1998 for that game which we intially lost, but won by forfit (Louis Bullock and Mo Taylor, I believe, taking money from boosters). We're 2-0 vs. UM in 1997-1998.

epasnoopy Wrote:

akronzip Wrote:

epasnoopy Wrote:

bigbear Wrote:While Akron has the stadium on the front burner, Dambrot will be pushing for the new basketball arena, as well. If things continue as they have, it might come sooner than later.

Where is Akron getting all this money from? They just built a really nice IPF and they have plans to build a $50 million football stadium. Where are they going to get money for a new basketball arena?

Not to mention we just spent 21 million to purchase the 9 acre Quaker Square Hotel complex as a dorm. That 50 million figure is for just the stadium. The entire project with dorms, parking, and retail space will be hundreds of million of dollars. It will be the second largest project in UA history behind the 300 million landscape for learning, and it will probably be the most drastic of the upgrades in the MAC. I would not be suprised at all if a push for a new arena began after this project.

Exactly, where is that money coming from? I would assume you guys tapped out your alumni after that $300 million campaign. Then even moreso with a $50 million stadium and the millions more you just mentioned for extras.

Bonds...big phreaking bond packages. And some state money. Part of the stadium strategy is to make it a "mixed-use" package with classrooms/dorms/retail included to get more state contribution. UA has traditionally not had much alumni/friends/corporate financial support but there have been a few sizable gifts lately. In the 80's they started accumulating a respectable endowment so they can tap that now also. We have only been a state university since around 1970. 10 years later in 1980 we still had only one "nice" building on campus (the performing arts hall -- the rest being "neo-correctional" architecture, much of which remains), major traffic thoroughfares through campus, minimal dorm space & student amenities, a dinky little gym for basketball, very minimal football practice facilities, etc. so we are coming a long way in catching up. The missing piece is the on-campus football stadium.

My own opinion is that after the stadium is built they will have to take a nice breather before doing anything major with basketball. To my knowledge that's not even on the books yet whereas they already have plans for other major projects like a Greek Village, International Business tower building, urban renewal surrounding campus, etc. The JAR is about 20 years old and you can't really say we've outgrown it attendance-wise so I think it is a little ways down the priority chain until we digest some of this other new stuff a little more.