The Bucks have new owners (and a new coach, new star player), and they’d like a new arena.
Should public subsidies be used to build one?
The Bucks have new owners (and a new coach, new star player), and they’d like a new arena.
Should public subsidies be used to build one?
ahhh, NO!
I like sports but not a hundred million in taxes. 🙁
We’ve been down this road before. Without public funds, we would have had NO Miller Park. I’m sure the”5 County” naysayers who opposed public funding of that structure—which is the Number One tourist/family attraction in The State of Wisconsin—attend games, are Brewers fans, and welcome the resultant money spent in their neighboring counties on gasoline, food, motels, restaurants, etc. Cubs, Twins, and Cardinals fans flock to Miller Park, as well. Ask them what they think of Our Ballpark; you’ll get a big “Wow.”
Once again, as we did with the Pettits, we are looking a gift horse in the mouth. The new owners and Herb Kohl have pledged $200 million toward a new venue. The Bradley Center was built in 1988, despite then local pols questioning and opposition.
Conservative nutjobs like Charlie Sykes are this go-rounds naysayers. Sykes in particular cannot fathom the new owners, as they are Easterners, Liberal, and have money. He further complains about the hiring of Jason Kidd as Coach. What’s that all about..?
Do shortsighted people NOT recall the furor over Herb Kohl’s dismissals of then-popular coaches Don Nelson, or George Karl…?
The owners have every right in the world to improve the face of their franchise.
As with Miller Park; build it and they will come.
The New Age Bucks are on the rise. Go, Bucks , Go!!!
Signed, A Longtime Bucks Fan
Here’s a post at the JS’s Business of Sports Blog, entitled, “The new Sacramento Arena and what it means for Milwaukee,” @ http://on.jsonl.in/1zkiGfq
Don Walker writes about the construction of a relatively small (for the NBA) but profitable arena in California:
“….The headline in the Sacramento Bee says it all: “New Kings’ arena will be among NBA’s smallest, but built for profit.”
For starters, there will be more seats in the lower bowl of the $477 million arena. That is something detractors of the BMO Harris Bradley Center have been saying for years.
“There will be twice as many ‘premium’ seats, including luxury suites and lofts, which will come with VIP perks and be among the most expensive tickets in the house, the newspaper reports. “Those features will more than offset the relatively small total seating capacity, team officials say.
The story points out what appears to be a trend in arena construction. It’s called “less is more” and aims at building more cozy arenas without sacrificing profit….”
More seats in the lower section and but premium seating to improve profitability. Very curious to see what the new owners propose, and if it’s along the Sacramento lines.
If I understand the timetable correctly, I think we’ll know soon.
Please NO more taxes !!
Please NO more taxes!! Next we will have to pass the hat for poor Herb Kohl !!!
If they’d take on more investors (something that the new ownership has said was an option), and consider plans that are geared toward profitability (like the Kings’ new digs), there’s a chance that a new arena from private funding could break new ground in more ways than one.
You will see “I’ve always been a Bucks fan” hatch when Aaron Rodgers gets on board as an investor. Just wait and watch. I’ve seen it happen many times over with supposed Brewers, Packers, and Badgers fans. Bandwagon!!!
I agree about the outlook. It’s true that the Bucks prospects have never looked better than now. The team was, considering NBA teams’ going rates, a bargain. Rodgers (or anyone) would do well to invest in the team.
The league has also done itself a lot of good, and perhaps earned lasting goodwill, with two unrelated developments: Adam Silver made the right decision on Sterling and the Clippers, and LeBron’s return to the Midwest is a legitimate, feel-good story.
Milwaukee can be optimistic locally and from a positive, overall NBA resurgence.
My question is: Is there aomething wrong with the current stadium? It’s not that old. Talk about a waste of resources….