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Originally Posted by hammersklavier
No public money in stadium construction!
That said ... I think a new stadium is mostly a nice-to-have. It isn't like the Sixers are particularly relevant anyway. But you wanna know who else has been jonesing for a better facility for a while?
The Drexel Dragons.
I'm not entirely sure where they would put it (other than "somewhere next to Drexel"), but I could see a joint Sixers/Dragons arena working out. Co-brand it and stuff and Drexel could well use the opportunity to move the Dragons to the higher-profile A-10 (and become a full-time member of the Big 5) as well. Oh, and with a Sixers/Dragons partnership, you can use collegiate fundraising avenues and not try to extort tax breaks out of the city for a team whose previous ownership decimated its fanbase. It'd certainly be win-win for both the team and the school.
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Not sure how I missed seeing this earlier, but
The Drexel Dragons (at least those who would control such things) are not jonesing for a better facility. They are perfectly content playing at the "
historic" Daskalakis Athletic Center and using the summer months to add lipstick to make it more, as our illustrious AD likes to put it, "boutique." Instead of spending, iirc, $2 million to add HVAC so they didn't have to rent out AC units at $100k a pop for graduation, they've decided to rent out CBP for graduation this year.
The old Drexel Master Plan website had quite a few comments clamoring for a new campus event center. The response was that the administration didn't see a ROI but if anyone wanted to cut a very large check it would be looked into. If Drexel really wanted it, they'd find someone to cut them that very large check. The fact they haven't means they don't want it. Teaming up with the Sixers for a new arena would be foolish, it would be way too big. I thought they should have gone to the Sixers about teaming up for an events center that could also host NBAD and WNBA teams, something that could hold 4-4.5k for DU and the NBAD but be expandable to 6.5-7k for WNBA and any bigger DU games. Put it on the Superblock (Market/JFK/High Line) and create a
Victory Park like setup. Instead the NBAD team plays down at Delaware and with the Schuylkill Yards plans taking up all of the space, it will never happen. There just isn't enough Administration/Student/Alumni support for the team, which is ashame for how big the school has gotten.
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