Kalamazoo -
BIG NEWS - the site plan review packet for the Kalamazoo Event Center was just posted to the city's website (review meeting scheduled for October 23). You can download the whole PDF packet
here, but be warned, it is a massively unwieldly 168 MB file, so you may want to compress it (after you download it), for easier viewing. I've barely had time to peruse it, but at a glance:
- Total building area = 426,000 SF
- The main event center appears to have a maximum seating capacity of ~ 7,400 (by comparison, Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids can seat about 12,000 max, so roughly 2/3 the size of that)
- There are two "smaller" assembly areas - the first at 1,740 occupants (practice ice facility) and the second at 1,350 occupants (multi-purpose / banquet & event hall)
- The event center building will be 4 stories / 82-ft. high and it will connect to the parking deck with a pedestrian skybridge
- The parking deck to the south will be 8 levels / ~ 112-ft. high (roughly the same height as the adjacent justice center)
- The parking deck will contain 1,176 total parking stalls, with a pedestrian cut through the ground level
- Portions of Arcadia Creek will be capped, and other portions left open / exposed
- By my count, there are 205 toilet fixtures (men's & women's, toilets + urinals)
This is a pretty "site & utility"-centric packet, but there are some exterior building elevations that begin on Pg. 52 of the PDF.
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