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Originally Posted by sirkingwilliam
None of those sites would even be remotely close to large enough for an NBA sized arena. Plus, even though I would love to have a new urban core built arena for the Spurs l, with the almost 200 million in upgrades done to the att center a few years ago, a new arena isn’t a need right now nor for another 10/15 years at the earliest.
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Actually, the Borden apartments site is about the same size as American Airlines arena in Dallas, minus parking. Take part of the DPT Labs complex for garages and you'd be in business. Not that I think we need to be spewing out public money on a new arena of course, but they can be fairly compact if need be.
Edit: Bad geometry on my part, they're both on parcels about 200,000 square feet, but since Borden is a long rectangle instead of a square it wouldn't work. Still, my point is you can build a great arena on a fraction of the land the AT&T center covers. In fact, if you take a look at other arenas, the AT&T center has an almost uniquely sprawled out site, most NBA arenas are much more compact, even the suburban ones.