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Ryan wants a new arena

fishonjazz said:
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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Utah is already screwed, very little solitude. Can't stand many of my favorite places from when I was young due to the overcrowding. Traffic has gotten bad. Most ski resorts have huge lines if you can even find a parking spot. I don't even attempt to ski @ the SLC resorts anymore. COVID moved a lot more people to the outdoors and it has persisted.

I bought a vacation house in western MT to have some solitude. I'm sure eventually it will get crowded too, but it is awesome right now. Even without more pro teams, Utah is growing like crazy, and it likely won't slow down any time soon, especially with the state offering all kinds of incentives for business to relocate to the state.
 
The Thriller said:
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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LOL, never heard that. The Draper Cougars would have been perfect! Love me some Draper cougars.
 
Sardines said:
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.
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Jeez, you make it sound like it's going to be in a mormon suburb of SLC. Oh wait.
 
str8line said:
Jeez, you make it sound like it's going to be in a mormon suburb of SLC. Oh wait.
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I can see the sales pitch now...

"Have you been to The District in South Jordan? Well! Imagine that, but with an NBA arena in it! Of course we'll keep some of the lower end establishments out and add a bar similar to the ones you might find in the new SLC Airport, but with a slightly higher price point. It'll be stupendous!"

"The real focal point will be the children's play zone with an option for paid supervised play times."
 
Big mistake imo. The Delta Center itself and the location are iconic. I love to watch a game from SLC and see alternate shots of the old Union Pacific Depot, the Tenple Grounds, Trax, Amtrak and the State Capital close by. Big mistake if it’s the prison grounds or pollution pluming from smokestacks or just the temperature inversion smog itself.
 
TheGoldStandard said:
It would solve the issue of players not wanting to play for the Jazz. Probably a good money maker too. Don't see that happening unless Utah does something stupid like the Sonics did...
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Moving this franchise to Utah would mean:
1.) A much better fan base
2.) Actually being able to sign free agents
3.) Actually being able to compete for a championship
4.) Tenfold in revenue for Ryan Smith
5.) State of the art arena
 
YoungJefe said:
Moving this franchise to Utah would mean:
1.) A much better fan base
2.) Actually being able to sign free agents
3.) Actually being able to compete for a championship
4.) Tenfold in revenue for Ryan Smith
5.) State of the art arena
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It's already in Utah. Salt lake City is in the state of Utah

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