Stadium Expansion

HuskerShark said:
I was at the baseball games on Saturday, and me and my dad were wondering why they built the arena in between 2 railroad tracks. Where are they going to park people? Anybody know the official plans for that? I would think that they will have to re-route some of the train tracks in order to make it look like the mock-up arena.
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i think there is going to be a huge parking lot on one side of the stadium, but dont quote me, are those not getting moved?

 
knapplc said:
Today's updates.

This structure went up in about ten days. There was basically no ironwork here when I took last week's photos, just some ground work for the foundation. I don't know what this is - I'm guessing it's a hotel.
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It's a powerplant for the arena:

"The DEC natural gas plant will be a plain brick building built into a parking garage and will provide low-cost, efficient heating and cooling for the arena and surrounding private development."

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knapplc said:
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corncraze said:
What is the first picture?
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That is the Amtrak station they're putting it west of the Arena. They can't move the existing tracks until that is done, so I thought I'd show progress on that. When I put up my last set of pics I think they still only had iron work up on that building, so they've made a lot of progress in two weeks.
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I was thinking that's what that may be, but I wasn't sure. Thanks for the info!

Here's what's it's supposed to look like when it's done.

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HuskerShark said:
I was at the baseball games on Saturday, and me and my dad were wondering why they built the arena in between 2 railroad tracks. Where are they going to park people? Anybody know the official plans for that? I would think that they will have to re-route some of the train tracks in order to make it look like the mock-up arena.
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There will only be one set of tracks when it's compete. They have to move Amtrak station to build the arena. The inside track will eventually be gone and that area will be filled with shopping and I believe parking.

 
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corncraze said:
knapplc said:
knapplc said:
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corncraze said:
What is the first picture?
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That is the Amtrak station they're putting it west of the Arena. They can't move the existing tracks until that is done, so I thought I'd show progress on that. When I put up my last set of pics I think they still only had iron work up on that building, so they've made a lot of progress in two weeks.
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I was thinking that's what that may be, but I wasn't sure. Thanks for the info!

Here's what's it's supposed to look like when it's done.

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That's funny, the construction pic appears to be opposite of the rendering. I wonder if the rendering just got mirrored somehow.

edit: doesn't appear so, the "Amtrak" in the rendering reads properly.

 
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knapplc said:
That is the Amtrak station they're putting it west of the Arena. They can't move the existing tracks until that is done, so I thought I'd show progress on that. When I put up my last set of pics I think they still only had iron work up on that building, so they've made a lot of progress in two weeks.
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There will also be two parking garages close to the arena. One attached and one a block over.

Don't expect a ton of surface parking right next to the arena like in Omaha. PBA is designed to flow well from the Haymarket.

 
knapplc said:
That is the Amtrak station they're putting it west of the Arena. They can't move the existing tracks until that is done, so I thought I'd show progress on that. When I put up my last set of pics I think they still only had iron work up on that building, so they've made a lot of progress in two weeks.
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I guess I was asking more on when you thought the station would be done?

 
Anyone else worried about what will inevitably be a huge clusterf#@k of traffic to and from events in PBA? IIRC, you have two entrance/exit options - going through those godawful roundabouts on 9th and 10th streets, or going through the heart of the Haymarket. I do not see 13,000 people doing this in any sort of smooth organized fashion. Not to mention people parking all throughout downtown creating a huge mess of random street and foot traffic. Ugh.

 
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tschu said:
Anyone else worried about what will inevitably be a huge clusterf#@k of traffic to and from events in PBA? IIRC, you have two entrance/exit options - going through those godawful roundabouts on 9th and 10th streets, or going through the heart of the Haymarket. I do not see 13,000 people doing this in any sort of smooth organized fashion. Not to mention people parking all throughout downtown creating a huge mess of random street and foot traffic. Ugh.
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We do it for football

 
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