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It needs to be built in conjunction with the new baseball stadium at the old Lone Star Brewery site, tbh as part of a giant entertainment complex.
Yeah I think a lot of cities are having big problems from Covid in that now most companies have to offer remote working as an option to get good qualified candidates. So now more people are moving out of the cities were they used to work and now they can live peacefully in the suburbs.
I am sure some business owns enough land outside of 1604 on 281 with enough land to build a new Arena, and surround it with Hotels, Golf Courses, Bars, and restaurants. I don’t think SA would care just as long as they getting 100% of taxes for all the businesses
It needs to be built in conjunction with the new baseball stadium at the old Lone Star Brewery site, tbh as part of a giant entertainment complex.
Except a lot of that infrastructure is heavily taxed and not designed properly thanks to our wonderful former urban planning mayor who really ed up when designing the Convention Center expansion.
Plus the UTSA men and women's basketball teams could play there as well.
Lot A or Fox Tech make the most sense to me for the Spurs. The other sites would seem to need a whole lot more built around them to work. La Cantera makes a lot of sense for the Missions. The burbs are fine for MiLB teams like the Round Rock Express and UTSA baseball could really improve its profile playing a lot of games there.
san antonio reporter said spurs will move the new arena downtown......
Wemby will change San Antonio as all other great players brought changes to their cities. Still he’s only a 19 year old kid with all this lofty expectations. I’m sure the PATFO will make a good job sheltering him from all these pressures, and he could just be himself, playing a simple game of basketball.
They didn’t build around AT&T center which is a damn shame. It’s literally in one of the silliest areas I’ve seen a stadium.
I like a lot of the ideas folks are posting here about where to put a new stadium. I just hope wherever it goes, there is actually things to do around it and public transportation is better than what we have now. I love out here in San Antonio, but I’m not a local. A nice portion of the folks on this site are, so they know better than me.
Lots of NIMBY with how ATT Center location was chosen I have to imagine. Settled on cheaper location and tried to spin it iirc.
A new arena should be near downtown to bring money back into that area imo. But if they build a new one it will be embarrassing to have two mostly empty former arenas fighting over cheerleader championships and Def Leppard concerts. Really, they should raze the Alamo Dome but now UTSA plays there a few times a year so that makes the politics more awkward. Feels like a cluster .
I think both facilities would continue to generate enough revenue to justify their upkeep. It won’t become a situation like the Astrodome, which has sat there empty and decaying for 20 years.
I suppose I don’t pay enough attention, but I got the sense the Alamodome doesn’t have an abundance of events there, but again, maybe I’m wrong. But with the new Tobin Center, and their smaller music venue on the south side of town, I do wonder if there’s enough entertainment to fill up all of these places.
I left San Antonio in 2019, but unless some crazy has happened, I know I didn’t just read that Live Oak is one of the nicer parts of town
Why a new arena lol
Yeah, I live in SA and my eyebrows raised when I read that.I left San Antonio in 2019, but unless some crazy has happened, I know I didn’t just read that Live Oak is one of the nicer parts of town
I’m guessing the OP meant Stone Oak.
Alamodome has plenty of events throughout the year and also converts to the Illusions Theater for mid-sized concerts.
The Alamodome is still compe ive for men's (2025) and women's (2029) Final Fours so there is no rush to tear it down and preclude SA from those events forever.
Aside from that:
6-7 UTSA games plus spring scrimmage
Alamo Bowl
UIL playoffs
5-6 XFL games
Various concerts (3 upcoming in September including Pink and Guns N' Roses)
UIL band compe ions
WWE as recent as this year (every five years or so)
Occasional large organization conventions
Certainly enough to keep it around longer. No reason to tear it down just to make an arena that would fit in Lot A. It's a shame nothing could be worked out with MLS. 20+ dates mainly in the summer would've been pretty good. I think they could easily host another college bowl game that is currently languishing in some location.
Long live the Alamodome!
It'll be northside, they want to get their teeth into the Austin market more. Somewhere between Windcrest and New Braunfels.
Retama Park over to Nacogdoches area actually makes a lot of sense.
Traffic is so tight as it is in all crossroad areas. Building it on the north side or anywhere north of San Antonio to Austin will be one big traffic jam. Maybe more west towards 35S and I10 west would be the ticket. Lots of land where developers would be happy to develop, unlike the east side.
Lol theres a more stuff there than just the Bill Millers
Go downtown, go to the older more run down area, build it there and make a giant entertainment area ALA what the Bucks have done.
Use the hotel motel tax and go balls out and talk to the Oakland A’s and get a. Baseball stadium next door built.
If you mean the western part of Southtown, at the Lone Star site, I agree — that would be a fantastic location if the logistics could be worked out.
I think that ship has sailed.
You mean the Las Vegas A's?
Regional stadiums work for football but less so for basketball. I don't see many folks from Austin making 7:30 weeknight start times in Schertz with any regularity without something like high speed rail -- and with that it might as well be downtown.
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