(02-27-2019 02:54 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  

(02-27-2019 12:47 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(02-27-2019 12:36 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  I don't know GTS. If it hasn't happened by now, I'm not sure it ever will at the current location. Another location on campus might be needed since the city of Atlanta is preventing Tech from taking the necessary actions for a proper renovation to occur.

They can fit a new proper two deck horseshoe on the current site. But they have to be committed enough to it to be willing to pay to replace four other buildings along with it: the Edge Center (home of the GTAA) which is in the NE endzone corner, the Bill Moore Student Success Center (academic support) which is joined into the back of the west stands, the Wardlaw Building that's part of the South Endzone, and Emerson/Lyman Hall (Bursar's Office) which is shoe horned into the gap between Tech Tower, the old power plant, and BDS behind the west stands.

There is enough room if you clear ALL that out. You'll back up to Tech Tower and right up to Techwood Drive. You're using all the E/W real estate you got. Happily there is a surplus of N/S real estate on the footprint ... so this is why I suggest a horseshoe that is building enclosed. You make up the lost space by building a substantial amount of new square footage in that building. You can even build the enclosure building (or at least most of it) without closing BDS beyond the South Endzone.

I'm tellin' ya ... it CAN be done if you're willing to shuffle around 4 somewhat small buildings that have grown into the stadium itself over the years. Yes, it would be so much easier to just build OVER Techwood Drive. But the city of Atlanta won't allow that. The only other alternative would be gobbling up several blocks of Home Park. We're talking about more than 4 dozen houses. And nearly all of Home Park that is interstate frontage is already gobbled up now by Turner Broadcasting and new post-graduate dorms GT put in.

Whether or not Todd Stansbury is willing to be as bold and visionary as I am probably depends entirely upon just how strong that premium seating demand is. I suspect Todd will know exactly how strong the demand is by the end of this 5 game MBS series.

I don't think moving everything 60 west solves the access issues with the east stands. In fact by moving closer to Tech Tower you end up creating the same pedestrian flow problems on the west stands as well.

You *already* have that problem. There are effectively three gates to the West Stands and only two are for actual outdoor seats. You can't break that one any further it's already right proper screwed. Due to interstate flow considerations, I'd say half the stadium already walks across the connector to get back on I-85N or walks to MARTA North Avenue to exfiltrate to MARTA "park and ride" stations closer to the perimeter. Most of the foot traffic pressure is in the north endzone due to this flow. That's why they put the ticket window there and the new outside jumbotron and the player walk happens that way too.