Didnāt it cost around $250 million to build the Pantherās stadium in the 90ās? Now it cost more just to upgrade the basketball arena.
$248 million. ($428 million in 2021 dollars)
The Hornets will have a larger practice facility. No one is sure where it will go. It might be built where the Bus Terminal is across Trade Street. If that happens, the bus terminal will be relocated under the practice facility.
That is an amazing relocation.
clt says the buses better be electric if they are underground.
I thought buses were eventually being move to the gateway transit center?
An underground bus station, sounds like a very clean and safe place.
Hopefully solar electric
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Yes much like the current facility.
clt is not going underground to switch buses
I agree with you, but the article/press release says otherwise.
When the Democrat Convention was held in Charlotte in 2012, the Transit Center was temporarily relocated so it wasnāt across the street from the Convention.
I donāt think gateway has ever gotten the funding to get off the ground.
Construction began in July 2018. Originally scheduled to be completed this year, but looks like 2023 now.
Eh theyāre putting in a half assed uptown Amtrak stop, itās not gateway station in the sense itās been talked about in the past.
There isnāt even enough funding to move passenger train service from the north Tryon location to uptown yet.
The broader plan is hundreds of millions of dollars short of fu ding to completion.
Right, theyāre building a half assed Amtrak terminal that isnāt even permanent. The gateway station they released renderings of that would incorporate bus terminals is hundreds of millions of dollars short of funding without a viable plan to raise those funds.
Maybe waiting on the Red Line so they can make all of the improvements at onceā¦in 2050 or beyond
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Red line is as dead as our chances of getting into a p5 conference.
Red Line is completely dependent on Norfolk Southern caring about more than leverage which will probably never be the case.
I live up at exit 28 in Antiquity. You cross those tracks to come into the development.
They have been physically disconnected for a few years like 30 feet south of our crossing. Literally, they removed a section of rail on each side and have left it that way. It baffles me as to why they could not have made it commuter rail.
Railroads have lots of grandfathered ROW laws from back when they ran the country. They donāt like to give an inch on anything.
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