There is another issue that some of you have touched on a bit. Thats parking. As some of you noted the BUC doesn't have all the seats in. This is because the city of coral gables has an ordinance/code etc. governing the amount of parking that has to be available in relation to the capacity of a building. You can only guess what that would look like if we are talking about a stadium. The broke UMs balls on this when they built the BUC.
For those of you on campus feel free to stop by and talk with the guys from Global Spectrum who manage the BUC. They will fill you in on the horror stories with coral gables. Its the biggest love hate relationship you will ever find. Coral Gables will only allow the school enough to get by thats it. They know that if the school wanted to leave over a 50 year period they would lose not only the tax revs but also all of the businesses around the school would dry up as well. They also know how costly that would be for UM and how logistically difficult it would be. So, they give in here and there but only after crying and screaming and stiffing them on some other ****.
You wanna go ahead and build this?? Ok fine but now your going to pay 1/3 more for the police to etc. etc. etc... Although it was needed anyways thats why all of the garages went up at the same time as the BUC.
Ill throw another one at you. Imagine the nightmare scenario. A home football game, a home basketball game, and an on campus event. Swap out basketball game for concert if you want. Whatever your choosing. Can you imagine all of this going on around 6PM? Yes I know that you can casually say well you just simply schedule... Yeah, listen in my line of work I have intimate knowledge of how colleges, and professional sports teams do their schedules. Nobody cares and nobody thinks it out.
If you are commenting here saying its the school or donna or whatever you really aren't informed and you are giving your feelings not facts.
Again. If this were like BC and the stadium had been built years ago as a 5k seat place and expanded on over time it would be totally different. To do it now would be a massive shock to the system.
