macktheknife
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It is hard to justify putting what would probably be at least $50M into the Joel when Baylor is building a brand new stadium for $105M.
If you want nostalgia from this dump we can sell the seats out of it for $1000.00 each to kick off the fund raising.I somewhat disagree. $50M saved is $50M saved, and the Joel isn't just going away. We already own it. IF (and that's the key) you can achieve the same/similar result inside of the existing shell for $50M as you could by building new for $105M, I'd absolutely rather renovate the Joel than build new. Less money, less wasteful, keeps ties for nostalgia sake, etc.
It is hard to justify putting what would probably be at least $50M into the Joel when Baylor is building a brand new stadium for $105M.
He's not off. I took the cost from the article of Baylor site. It's in the article. They didn't mention Waco. Doesn't matter. Use JMU example. We don't need a parking deck.Price tag for the new Baylor arena is actually $185M so you were only off by 76%, professor.
City of Waco will be chipping in $65M:
https://wacotrib.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/waco-baylor-partner-on-185-million-basketball-concert-venue-in-downtown/article_21fa9f72-5f7f-11ec-a768-233a808608c3.html
Wake has no need to acquire land. So even less money.Angus is so stupid that he finds a weird superiority about caring enough to find a more recent article. And that article even states that the cost was $105M and increased because the city want to get involved and upgrade it to host concerts.
“Baylor officials said the costs of acquiring land and upgrading the venue to host concerts account for much of the increase in the project budget from $105 million to $185 million, and the city is paying for most of that differential.”
So it looks like basketball facility cost $105M.
I guess when you’re wrong as often as Angus, you’ve got to manufacture something for others to be “wrong” about even if it shows that he’s actually wrong.
I somewhat disagree. $50M saved is $50M saved, and the Joel isn't just going away. We already own it. IF (and that's the key) you can achieve the same/similar result inside of the existing shell for $50M as you could by building new for $105M, I'd absolutely rather renovate the Joel than build new. Less money, less wasteful, keeps ties for nostalgia sake, etc.
It is hard to justify putting what would probably be at least $50M into the Joel when Baylor is building a brand new stadium for $105M.