Figured it made sense to just have a single thread for this. Here’s the full slate of NCAA events awarded to STL today:
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Is it just me or is this a tad bit disappointing? Didn’t we invest $105,000,000 in Enterprise to be part of the regular NCAA rotation instead of once a decade
^ US Olympic Gymnastics trials are at Enterprise next year. Recent NHL All Star Game...have to think those wouldn’t have been here without those improvements. I say this as someone who was extremely critical of the Enterprise Center public funding too. They also only announced events up to 2026...so the decade isn’t out yet. But the Frozen Four and two rounds of March Madness isn’t super disappointing to me...maybe it’s just because I couldn’t give a sh*t about basketball but love hockey 
They also were supposed to have tournament games this year but covid had other ideas.
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How is the University of Vermont the school associated with the 2025 Frozen Four in St Louis?
verMOntBart Harley Jarvis wrote: ↑Oct 15, 2020How is the University of Vermont the school associated with the 2025 Frozen Four in St Louis?
Given the mountain of money the city makes off the city owned garage and lots nearby I'm not sure why you're ticked about that. Would you prefer those 90-100 event days per year be in the suburbs?sc4mayor wrote: ↑Oct 14, 2020^ US Olympic Gymnastics trials are at Enterprise next year. Recent NHL All Star Game...have to think those wouldn’t have been here without those improvements. I say this as someone who was extremely critical of the Enterprise Center public funding too. They also only announced events up to 2026...so the decade isn’t out yet. But the Frozen Four and two rounds of March Madness isn’t super disappointing to me...maybe it’s just because I couldn’t give a sh*t about basketball but love hockey
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^ um, maybe because they were contractually obligated to fund their own upgrades but were like "nah, we're gonna make taxpayers foot the bill" and lied to the BOA. oh, yeah, and they threatened to financially destroy Cara Spencer for trying to fight it. real upstanding citizens.
^ Well said.
^^ I think in terms of the city’s overall revenue picture the “mountain” of parking revenue you speak of is more of a mole hill. I’m not really interested in re-litigating this all over again...but I’m not sure the city taking out another $105 million in debt was necessarily a good idea either. Not disagreeing with the improvements made...it’s a significantly nicer building...but the Blues ownership should have been on the hook for a lot more than they were.
^^ I think in terms of the city’s overall revenue picture the “mountain” of parking revenue you speak of is more of a mole hill. I’m not really interested in re-litigating this all over again...but I’m not sure the city taking out another $105 million in debt was necessarily a good idea either. Not disagreeing with the improvements made...it’s a significantly nicer building...but the Blues ownership should have been on the hook for a lot more than they were.
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You know what would be COOL IMO? If SLU ever were to start a football program then the new soccer stadium would be perfect. Barely a mile from campus and a perfect size at 25k.
Would like to think it makes it a lot more of a realistic possibly too given an appropriate stadium is usually the biggest obstacle in startup funding for these things.
Would also give the stadium year round usage almost.
Would like to think it makes it a lot more of a realistic possibly too given an appropriate stadium is usually the biggest obstacle in startup funding for these things.
Would also give the stadium year round usage almost.
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Unless there's a major benefactor who's willing to pony up a multimillion dollar donation, ain't happening.
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^They had one historically. As I understand it they pioneered the downfield pass.