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Originally Posted by Austin1971
They should incorporate the arena with the new Fairmont hotel. Think LA Live and the Staples Center. That area is going to explode once the Waller Creek tunnel is completed. The reason the Drum sucks and always will is that it is isolated and generic. You need to build it in a location that people will have access to things other than the arena itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staples_Center
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Live |
One of the things Dallas does better than Austin - put the American Airlines center near downtown, built it so it's incorporated into the city and attracts pedestrians instead of repelling them. Nice mixed use, hotels, retail, food and drink and housing have bloomed all around it (can't say that for the Erwin Center).
http://awesomeinsf.wordpress.com/201...llas_uptown_2/
http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/f...s%20center.JPG
There are urban ways to do these things.