What would it cost to refurbish the Coliseum?

(02-14-2016 08:07 PM)bengltgrs Wrote:  What would it cost to refurbish the Coliseum?

wth?

(02-14-2016 08:07 PM)bengltgrs Wrote:  What would it cost to refurbish the Coliseum?

$10.6 million

Forget about it - not an option. Period.

OCS convocation center NOW!

(02-14-2016 08:07 PM)bengltgrs Wrote:  What would it cost to refurbish the Coliseum?

We haven't been able to raise the balance of the $40,000,000 campaign for the South campus facilities. Not sure why anyone wants to spend another $25,000,000 to renovate a crumbling facility to gain a nightmare of maintence vs at worst playing in the FEF for free.

People, we are going through a rough spot. We have before and recovered and we will again. Don't completely give up and lose your minds. Grow a pair and get through this. Be part of the solution not the problem.

Maybe we could just play in basement of the bass pro pyramid.

We can't fill it

(02-14-2016 08:07 PM)bengltgrs Wrote:  What would it cost to refurbish the Coliseum?

Would certainly create more of that college feel --- w/ that college size. Closer to campus and at the same location as football. And it would be "ours" in essence. Not under the thumb of another. I think it's an idea worth a look.

Need a nice on campus arena, capacity about 5,900.

It's not crumbling, far from it.

It would cost more to tear it down than renovate and repair it.

With a new Mayor in place and Lipscomb gone, I think it's safe to say the TDZ plan is gone, and the whole issue will be revisited in a new light.

I'm not saying I think it's an option for the U. of M sports, and I am definitely saying I don't think the U. of M should be saddled with the cost of fixing it up. I guess we shall see what the City cooks up. I do know the two Coliseum restoration groups are still very active and adamant it be re-used.

We have the fieldhouse ya know. I'm sure the ladies don't mind sharing.

The MSC is prime example of why the city should not be in the large facilities business. The city actually created the problem of a vacant MSC when it built the Pyramid. There is no pinch in Memphis for venues for performing arts, concerts etc. Why should the city spend taxpayer monies to renovate or build facilities to host commercial events or those of institutions that should build their own? Especially when the city has crumbling infrastructure long neglected, public parks once the best in the country now run down & havens for crime & a multitude of real city issues to make Memphis a great place to live & work - and in my mind that makes what to do with the MSC, even the LB (related to long term viability) & other facilities used exclusively or primarily by private commerce activities way down the list of what should be city investments of money & time. If renovation of the MSC is important to private,commercial activities or those of separate institutions like our university, then let those organizations take the initiative, make the proposals & finance the work required to meet their needs because they aren't city of Memphis needs.

(02-15-2016 09:21 AM)Atlanta Wrote:  The MSC is prime example of why the city should not be in the large facilities business. The city actually created the problem of a vacant MSC when it built the Pyramid. There is no pinch in Memphis for venues for performing arts, concerts etc. Why should the city spend taxpayer monies to renovate or build facilities to host commercial events or those of institutions that should build their own? Especially when the city has crumbling infrastructure long neglected, public parks once the best in the country now run down & havens for crime & a multitude of real city issues to make Memphis a great place to live & work - and in my mind that makes what to do with the MSC, even the LB (related to long term viability) & other facilities used exclusively or primarily by private commerce activities way down the list of what should be city investments of money & time. If renovation of the MSC is important to private,commercial activities or those of separate institutions like our university, then let those organizations take the initiative, make the proposals & finance the work required to meet their needs because they aren't city of Memphis needs.

"when the city has crumbling infrastructure long neglected, public parks"

where would that be? I sure don't see it.

(02-15-2016 09:27 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(02-15-2016 09:21 AM)Atlanta Wrote:  The MSC is prime example of why the city should not be in the large facilities business. The city actually created the problem of a vacant MSC when it built the Pyramid. There is no pinch in Memphis for venues for performing arts, concerts etc. Why should the city spend taxpayer monies to renovate or build facilities to host commercial events or those of institutions that should build their own? Especially when the city has crumbling infrastructure long neglected, public parks once the best in the country now run down & havens for crime & a multitude of real city issues to make Memphis a great place to live & work - and in my mind that makes what to do with the MSC, even the LB (related to long term viability) & other facilities used exclusively or primarily by private commerce activities way down the list of what should be city investments of money & time. If renovation of the MSC is important to private,commercial activities or those of separate institutions like our university, then let those organizations take the initiative, make the proposals & finance the work required to meet their needs because they aren't city of Memphis needs.

"when the city has crumbling infrastructure long neglected, public parks"

where would that be? I sure don't see it.

lol...Willie refused to mow grass at most public parks in order to save money. They are falling apart. Wharton did make an attempt to bring them back and did make progress.

(02-15-2016 09:30 AM)tigerlands Wrote:  

(02-15-2016 09:27 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(02-15-2016 09:21 AM)Atlanta Wrote:  The MSC is prime example of why the city should not be in the large facilities business. The city actually created the problem of a vacant MSC when it built the Pyramid. There is no pinch in Memphis for venues for performing arts, concerts etc. Why should the city spend taxpayer monies to renovate or build facilities to host commercial events or those of institutions that should build their own? Especially when the city has crumbling infrastructure long neglected, public parks once the best in the country now run down & havens for crime & a multitude of real city issues to make Memphis a great place to live & work - and in my mind that makes what to do with the MSC, even the LB (related to long term viability) & other facilities used exclusively or primarily by private commerce activities way down the list of what should be city investments of money & time. If renovation of the MSC is important to private,commercial activities or those of separate institutions like our university, then let those organizations take the initiative, make the proposals & finance the work required to meet their needs because they aren't city of Memphis needs.

"when the city has crumbling infrastructure long neglected, public parks"

where would that be? I sure don't see it.

lol...Willie refused to mow grass at most public parks in order to save money. They are falling apart. Wharton did make an attempt to bring them back and did make progress.

you know Willie hasn't been Mayor in 7-8 years, right?

welcome to 2016...last I looked TVA is building a billion dollar power facility...TDOT is building a 100 million plus roadway addition...and St Jude is expanding to the tune of 1 billion.

that's State and Local Public projects...and Private projects...that's just off the top of my head...there are many others.

can't wait to see Crosstown, Chisca, and TN Brewery when they're finished.

Too much. Tear it down.

(02-15-2016 09:27 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(02-15-2016 09:21 AM)Atlanta Wrote:  The MSC is prime example of why the city should not be in the large facilities business. The city actually created the problem of a vacant MSC when it built the Pyramid. There is no pinch in Memphis for venues for performing arts, concerts etc. Why should the city spend taxpayer monies to renovate or build facilities to host commercial events or those of institutions that should build their own? Especially when the city has crumbling infrastructure long neglected, public parks once the best in the country now run down & havens for crime & a multitude of real city issues to make Memphis a great place to live & work - and in my mind that makes what to do with the MSC, even the LB (related to long term viability) & other facilities used exclusively or primarily by private commerce activities way down the list of what should be city investments of money & time. If renovation of the MSC is important to private,commercial activities or those of separate institutions like our university, then let those organizations take the initiative, make the proposals & finance the work required to meet their needs because they aren't city of Memphis needs.

"when the city has crumbling infrastructure long neglected, public parks"

where would that be? I sure don't see it.

Then you aren't looking. Surely you drive the streets of Memphis, are you satisfied with how the streets are maintained? When I come to Memphis these days from Atlanta I drive Lamar, Crump, Perkins, Bellevue, 3rd St and virtually any street between Main and the Crosstown area - and those areas look like abandoned areas of Detroit. Even the condition of the streets seems more akin to some I've experienced south of the US border. Much of Orange Mound, even though it was never a area where folks had money, they did have pride in what they had & many great families I know personally were raised there. Where is the city to fight the crime element that dominates many of the poor areas of town? Such concerns should be a priority & make decisions on something like the MSC such a low priority it isn't even mentioned. Don't want to get started on the schools, shameful - and each of these schools used to have wonderful & safe summer programs led by talented Park Commission summer staff - where is that now?

"I drive Lamar, Crump, Perkins, Bellevue, 3rd St and virtually any street between Main and the Crosstown area - and those areas look like abandoned areas of Detroit."



I live by Central and Lamar and you're so full of it....

250 million has been allocated to completely re-do Lamar.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/gov...14491.html

Cleveland St was just being leveled and repaved from Lamar past Union in anticipation of that project...

http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/clev...id=4184295

the Harahan Boardwalk should be finished by the end of this year.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/har...62731.html

and as I also pointed out you have private projects like Crosstown, Chisca, TN Brewery, One Beale, etc.

Is this a joke? The MSC just needs to be torn down, no reason to ever sink one dime of renovation money into it. This is absurd, it would do no good whatsoever . It is absolute irrational thinking to invest in this. We would lose every dime we sunk into it.