Have they looked at Dadeland Mall? 73 acres with two metro rail stops and a highway on either side. It's almost the same exact size as the property for Allegiant Stadium (65k). A smaller stadium without a roll out field could help with the parking issue.
I had no idea how big Hard Rock property and parking was.. I'm not exactly sure if this is all game parking or not but.... 283 acres.
It's also in WACO so land acquisition was pathetically cheap. To build that anywhere near campus, you'd have to spend 2-3x what they did and that's on the low end.
Good map work here.
Yes I know the land acquisition would be far more expensive. The actual cost of the stadium itself shouldn't exceed that too much.. although it sounds like Ruiz is planning to spend $500-600M regardless.
hilarious. you think Simon is going to sell Dadeland Mall? por favor. video game world.
I've read quite a bit on here about how ****ed the parking is there now. That land area is huge but I dunno how bad the parking was before the tennis courts and F1 stuff. I think I read that Allegiant stadium expects like 35k to park offsite. That's going to be a big issue for any place other than Tropical Park imo. I guess you can go vertical with parking but it still seems like a traffic nightmare. A new stadium eliminates any serious tailgating at any location other than Tropical Park.
The world of commercial retail has gone to he[[. I know lots of owners who are trying to sell..................................
Ha...just a random pic I saw one day....I fell in love so I decided to make her my avatar...not bad, huh?
I have no idea if he'll sell it.. the whole thread is nothing but speculation anyway. Billions of dollars that don't exist yet are the driving force. I'm just looking at land that COULD fit a stadium and is close to UM.
Parking was heavily trafficked but at least there was a lot of it. Now, the west lot is ****ed. They've been using a dirt lot across 27 (I'm not kidding) and Calder.
so you are going to pave the entire park or most of it for parking? It's a park used by thousands of people every day, including baseball and softball leagues.
have you seen how Simon is transforming the mall? there are more restaurants than ever. Hotels are being built. Less retail. Malls may be going obsolete but the land underneath them isn't. That land will be transformed to other uses.
Well you're not gonna get that in Coral Gables, I can guarantee you lol. Probably not at Tropical Park or any of the other proposed sites either. The reality is that with modern zoning requirements and NIMBYism, you simply cannot build something like the OB anymore. It's such a travesty that we tore that place down.
I'd take the Orange Bowl replica, even with the old restrooms, if it came with the Cane and Dolphin Glory! And, this from someone who missed two of the five NFL records Danny Marino broke against Dallas on the last Monday Night game of that season, while I was waiting in the line to get rid of all the beer.
I'm not doing anything. Is all of Hard Rock paved? I'm just pointing out the size of the property and comparing it to HRS property. This thread is for speculation not stadium deniers. I'm aware a new stadium near UM is a pipe dream but who knows what a guy with Billions of dollars can get done. Maybe he goes to the intersection of 825 and 41 and builds a park twice the size so he can have TP for his stadium. There's thousands of acres out there and 836 goes right to them.