[MichaelB]

I find myself on the fence on this one. The FEC is in a great location. Between Downtown and Campus. It's an easy walk from either direction. While I understand UT does well on the B'ball program, it seems like the profit from the rest of the year has to be attractive....b'ball only takes up one season after all. (Note the university moved local arts of campus to have greater use/profit from Bass.... we did benefit from that action)

It is curious to me that UT has not mentioned where an arena would be built in all of the "Master Plan" announcements. I wonder if they are thinking off campus? It makes me think there are other discussion going on that are not public. I wonder if there are, god forbid, actual talks going on to create a public/private effort? ( See: Louisville).

Perhpas UT could negotiate with other agencies in the state....tear down some of those god-awful parking decks onTrinity and build an Arena on top of parking.
That would keep an Arena in a location that would also connect both directions and bring more life to a part of the CBD that is underutilized.