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Burt Ogden Arena
If the GCU guys can brag about their baseball stadium I guess we can do pictures of the Burt Ogden Arena:

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Still worried about distance from campus and maybe higher ticket and food prices.
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I'm exited about everything that's happening because of the arena. 4 hotels are in the pipeline probably because of the arena. More restaurants will end up coming as well.
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By the way its not Burt its BERT..... And yes it will not be finished in time. Place your bets accordingly.
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RE: Burt Ogden Arena
Bert Ogden Arena opening delayed until JanuaryVipers will start upcoming season at State Farm Arena

GREG LUCA | STAFF WRITER Jul 26, 2017  (1)

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Bert Ogden Arena is seen under construction off of U.S. Expressway 281 July 26, 2017 in Edinburg.

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Bert Ogden Arena under construction off of U.S. Expressway 281 July 26, 2017 in Edinburg.

Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com

EDINBURG — Despite long-standing projections that construction of Bert Ogden Arena in Edinburg would be complete in time for the start of the 2017-18 RGV Vipers season, team President Bert Garcia said the timetable for the arena opening has been pushed back to January.

As a result, the Vipers are likely headed back to State Farm Arena for at least the first few weeks of the upcoming season, while the UTRGV men’s basketball team has rescheduled its season opener with the University of Oklahoma, which was originally set to open the new arena on Nov. 18.

“We’re going based on the construction patterns and going on what’s been already ordered,” Garcia said. “January is definitely the date. We’re just being conservative here, and November was the original time of action. But right now, I think to make sure we’re putting a quality product out, I think January is the month that we’re focusing on.”

Garcia could not elaborate on the cause of the delay, citing only “upgrades and improvements to the original plan.” The bottom-line cost of the 8,500-seat arena located along Expressway 281 at Alberta Road has not changed from the previously announced figure of $68 million — $30 million of which will be funded by two tax increment reinvestment zones, with Vipers majority owner Alonzo Cantu covering the remaining $38 million.

“This (arena) is one of the biggest things that’s happened to the city and to this Valley, and I don’t think a delay until January is going to make an iota of difference in the world to anybody,” Edinburg Mayor Richard Garcia said. “We’re just happy that it’s happening. If it’s delayed a few months, it’s not a problem.”

Bert Garcia said the Vipers will likely begin the new season at State Farm Arena, the team’s home for the past 10 years. Last year’s Vipers regular season ran from Nov. 13 through April 1.

“We have a tentative agreement to hopefully start our season at State Farm Arena,” Bert Garcia said. “They’re working with us, as well, and have been great partners. And then we’ll transition to Bert Ogden Arena.”

When the new facility was announced on Nov. 1, 2013, UTRGV athletics director Chris King had already been in conversations with the Vipers and city of Edinburg about potentially using the arena for men’s basketball home games.

On June 21, 2016, UTRGV announced plans to open the 2017-18 season with a home game against 2016 Final Four participant University of Oklahoma, marking the first time since 2010 that a team from one of the NCAA’s Power 5 conferences had come to the Valley for a game. A release from UTRGV read: “The game is likely to be played at Bert Ogden Arena, pending the completion of construction and a lease agreement.”

With Bert Ogden Arena not scheduled to be completed by that date, the matchup against Oklahoma has been rescheduled for the start of the 2018-19 season, again pending a lease agreement.

“We will play the full 2017-18 season at the UTRGV Fieldhouse and look forward to speaking with the Vipers about working out a lease agreement for 2018-19,” UTRGV athletics director Chris King said in a statement to The Monitor.

When the arena was announced on Nov. 1, 2013, the Edinburg mayor told The Monitor the process was expected to take 14 to 20 months, meaning it could potentially open as early as January 2015.

On April 4, 2014, the Vipers agreed in principle with the city of Edinburg on a plan outlining each side’s obligations in funding and executing the project. At that time, The Monitor reported that the two sides hoped to break ground in summer 2014 and open the arena in early 2016.

Then, on Jan. 24, 2015, the Edinburg City Council established the two tax increment reinvestment zones to help fund the facility. Then-city manager Ramiro Garza said the arena was expected to open in “late 2016 or early 2017,” The Monitor reported.

When ground officially broke on the construction on Feb. 27, 2015, the venue was projected to open by October 2016.

“It has to be done within the year,” Richard Garcia told The Monitor at the time of the groundbreaking. “When (Cantu) sets a deadline for construction, he gets it done. I have no doubt about that.”

On April 10, The Monitor reported that the Vipers were still expecting to open the 2017-18 season in Bert Ogden Arena.

Cantu owns both the RGV Vipers and the USL soccer franchise RGV FC Toros, and the Toros experienced similar delays with the construction of their Edinburg stadium, H-E-B Park.

Originally, H-E-B Park was scheduled to be ready for RGV FC’s home opener on April 30, 2016. But, citing inclement weather and upgrades to the venue, that timetable was consistently pushed back until the season ended without the Toros ever using their home arena. Home games were played either at UTRGV or the H-E-B Park practice fields.

The Toros played their first match in H-E-B Park on March 26, the opener for the 2017 season.

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(08-03-2017 01:22 PM)WACfan86 Wrote:  By the way its not Burt its BERT..... And yes it will not be finished in time. Place your bets accordingly.

Please accept my apologies to Bert, wherever he may be, the Ogden family, and all of you here.
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(08-03-2017 12:41 PM)Vaqueronation Wrote:  I'm exited about everything that's happening because of the arena. 4 hotels are in the pipeline probably because of the arena. More restaurants will end up coming as well.

Well it would be nice for Edinburg to have something like the area around the McAllen Convention center.

But fancy hotels and restaurants don't seem all that compatible with $6 tickets and $1 hot dogs during the second half. Let's face it, part of the draw for a UTRGV game is that it's cheap, air conditioned entertainment. I'm sure the concert tours and Vipers will do well but don't know about turnout for UTRGV games.
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Oh yea the hotels and stuff is all for the acts that are going to be brought in who are going to perform in the arena. I don't think even the vipers will attract that much economic development. Turnout for utrgv games will probably be bad unless we have a really good season this year. So the hype can carry over into next year.
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The arena got a new design. I like this one a lot better.
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The roof trusses went up over the last couple days, so it looks more real now. The thing is big at least by Edinburg standards.
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(08-03-2017 06:00 PM)edinburger Wrote:  
(08-03-2017 01:22 PM)WACfan86 Wrote:  By the way its not Burt its BERT..... And yes it will not be finished in time. Place your bets accordingly.

Please accept my apologies to Bert, wherever he may be, the Ogden family, and all of you here.

This really cracked me up. Too funny.

Congrats on the arena. It looks really nice and I hope it's a boost to the community.
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They came out with the final rendering of what the arena will look like. Late May is the estimated completion time.



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The Monitor went on sneak preview of the Bert Ogden Arena, pictures here:

http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/art...fb32c.html

They are saying end of June now. Even if gets bumped again it looks like they'll be ready for the Oklahoma game in November.

I'm already getting tired of saying "Bert Ogden Arena". Can we start calling it "the boa"?
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Just don't call it BO Arena... Smelly
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https://www.themonitor.com/sports/utrgv_...c545b.html

It looks like we're not playing in the new arena after all. At least not this season.

“We explored the option of moving our men’s basketball games into the new Bert Ogden Arena in Edinburg, but determined that, at this time, staying in the UTRGV Fieldhouse is a better, more affordable option for our fans, and better for our athletics program as well,”

“We had some good discussions, and I think we’re still open to having further discussions with them,” Solis said. “Really, at the end of the day, we hope that we can get them to play some games at the Bert Ogden Arena with the ultimate goal of maybe having all of their games over at the arena.”

What I'm hearing here is "the arena's rent is too expensive and we're going to lose money on every game until our attendance improves."
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That is disappointing. Playing in a new facility could bring new fans and breath new life into old ones. Seems short-sighted not to at least give it a go for a season, or at least a handful of games.
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Gotta put all the money they have into FBS now...
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(08-08-2018 10:54 AM)Lopes87 Wrote:  Gotta put all the money they have into FBS now...

Football is not going to happen. There is a reason the Monitor had to do an FOIA to get hold of the report, and the obvious guess is that the UT System people in Austin told us to file it away permanently.
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(08-08-2018 03:53 AM)Vaqueronation Wrote:  https://www.themonitor.com/sports/utrgv_...c545b.html

It looks like we're not playing in the new arena after all. At least not this season.

“We explored the option of moving our men’s basketball games into the new Bert Ogden Arena in Edinburg, but determined that, at this time, staying in the UTRGV Fieldhouse is a better, more affordable option for our fans, and better for our athletics program as well,”

“We had some good discussions, and I think we’re still open to having further discussions with them,” Solis said. “Really, at the end of the day, we hope that we can get them to play some games at the Bert Ogden Arena with the ultimate goal of maybe having all of their games over at the arena.”

What I'm hearing here is "the arena's rent is too expensive and we're going to lose money on every game until our attendance improves."

I was looking forward to seeing the BOA at reasonable cost (no way I'm paying out what they're charging for music concerts). But other than that, this is good move at least for regular games, because an 80% empty arena is a bad vibe. I could see using it for specific games (like Oklahoma) that are likely to have a good turnout.

Anyway, it will be a fun to have Lon Kruger back in the Fieldhouse, to see a "real" team from 15 ft. away for $7, and to have the place packed and loud.
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So it looks like at the very least we will be playing Oklahoma at the Bert Ogden arena after all. News came out today.
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(10-03-2018 11:56 PM)Vaqueronation Wrote:  So it looks like at the very least we will be playing Oklahoma at the Bert Ogden arena after all. News came out today.

Where'd you see it? goutrgv.com still has it at the Fieldhouse.
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