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Ryan wants a new arena

KqWIN said:
This would kill the game day experience. Draper is suburbia. There’s nothing to do there before or after the games. SLC is the only bearable part of the state with any kind of life to it.

**** this!!!
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I think the idea would be to create an arena district with all kinds of entertainment, dining, etc., around the new arena. I fly in for a lot of games (have season tickets) as the airport is so convenient it is a fairly easy thing to do. I would definitely not buy season tix for a Draper team, but could see the potential appeal if executed directly. I feel like there is enough downtown to accomplish this. It is a shame the Gateway didn't accomplish this. I think there is still opportunity to continue to develop downtown, but I can see why the current arena is not ideal for NHL.
 
I’d be shocked if this doesn’t happen… it’s not like Draper is going to be the same that it is today, the state is trying to pump up the old prison site as some cool 15 minute city. Hopefully we can also get MLB, so that downtown doesn’t suffer too much.
 
This is the concept of using tax increment financing to build an anchor to lure other businesses into an area. Similar to the old Salt Palace being built to eradicate the slums downtown.
 
TheGoldStandard said:
I think the idea would be to create an arena district with all kinds of entertainment, dining, etc., around the new arena. I fly in for a lot of games (have season tickets) as the airport is so convenient it is a fairly easy thing to do. I would definitely not buy season tix for a Draper team, but could see the potential appeal if executed directly. I feel like there is enough downtown to accomplish this. It is a shame the Gateway didn't accomplish this. I think there is still opportunity to continue to develop downtown, but I can see why the current arena is not ideal for NHL.
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Good thing that area right off the point never has traffic. 134th south and north to Bangeter Is easy to get to. And the east west roads are even better. I used to commute on 123rd south. It was always fun to drive one block and get hit with another 5 min stoplight. There’s also no Trax access to the prison location area. Which is something downtown salt lake has. You can hit up some restaurants before the game, hop on trax for free downtown, and get to the arena in a few mins.
 
I remember when Draper built corner canyon high school. Their mascot originally was going to be a cougar. But a group of parents complained saying that too many would think of Draper women. So they changed it to Chargers.

And yet this place also wants to be the location for pro sports, bare, restaurants, and all the stuff that comes with pro sports? lol okay

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The area near the Delta Center has good mass transit, walkable bars, restaurants and hotels. An arena in Draper would be at the very best an entertainment complex that would feel like a cookie cutter strip mall with inauthentic dining, drinking and entertainment. It would all be overpriced, the food would be "safe" standard Americanized mass produced trash. The bars would be sanitized. There would be no real competition because it would all be controlled by Ryan so they would just be filling slots in their pre-planned concept.

Yuck.
 
I hear the land under the arena is leased for a dollar. The millers were pretty awesome in that they didn’t beg the state for money… they got a little bit of breaks but didn’t try this weird build a ginormous arena area on the taxpayers dime BS most owners do.

I like @Saint Cy of JFC ’d idea… make seats comfy. I’ll add… have decent food and decent bathrooms. That’s all you need.
 
I hear about things like an NHL team, MLB team, winter Olympics in 2034, new jazz arena, etc and it makes me sick.
Our air is total ****. Sometimes it's literally the worst in the country.
Our droughts are terrifying.
All this stuff would bring way more people (we are already growing to fast without all that crap) and make both issues way worse.

The mountains and nature (best thing about this place) would be even way more crowded than they already are. No solitude anymore. My rivers would be ****ed.

Utah is pretty safe and low crime and relatively low homelessness.
All this crap and all these people coming will make both things worse.

Rent and home prices and property taxes will all increase. Sure the local economy will increase as a whole (we already have a great local economy) and money will come in but that money wont be any kind of equal distribution. The already rich will get the vast majority of the money while the poor just get poorer.

But mainly, before we get any Olympics or arenas or anymore sports teams we need solutions for our air pollution problem and lack of water problem. Everything else should be put on hold until we fix those 2 issues first and foremost

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If they don't plan on having trax to the stadium area would be stupid not to make it part of the new arena.
 
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