I found an interesting set of photos over at the KC Rag Forums earlier this morning.
As far as I know . . . It's the first look inside the utterly doomed (and wok looking) Sprint Center.
Still, there is no doubt it's a somewhat pretty (as well as silly) looking building with only one exception . . . Those dumbass yellow windows that appear every so often . . . But if downtown remains as desolate as it is currently . . . The local homeless bums should break those out quickly with no problem whatsoever.
Anyway, what's clear to me is that this is a sporting arena and it doesn't look like there is enough floor space for any decent sized convention to come through that wouldn't want the cheaper price at Municipal or Kemper . . . So it doesn't seem like there is much of a Plan B as far as this facility is concerned . . . And the building just seems to "classy" (pardon the expression) for the tractor pulls and other low money events that Mayor-elect Funkhouser has said might float the impending financial disaster of a building.
Anyway . . . With no anchor tenant and no word of one in the near or distant future . . . The fact that the Penguins publicly rejected Kansas City as someplace where yet another pro-sports team couldn't really turn a decent sized profit . . . It just doesn't look good for the future of this silly looking structure and the so-called urban renaissance it's supposed to bring about . . .
It looks amazing. How in the world did this guy take all of these photos without getting caught or someone asking him to stop?
ReplyDeleteWhy would anyone object to these photos being taken? It isn't a top-secret installation. It is an arena.
ReplyDeleteit was a press event, ya'll.
ReplyDelete(i opted not to go, par d'habitude.)
I have already has sex in that arena.
ReplyDeleteMasturbation doesn't count.
ReplyDeleteIs it me or does the inside of this arena look really small? How many people does it hold? Does it hold even enough for NBA or NHL teams to even want to consider coming here?
ReplyDeleteYes.
ReplyDeleteSeating is to be around 18,000.
ReplyDeleteWok, fish bowl, punch bowl, disco ball... whatever it resembles, it is an ugly, ridiculously expensive pain in the ass (have you tried driving around downtown lately?) that will most likely piss me off every time I see it for the next 20 years.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the pics, apparently the photographer was on a tour with one of the lead architects for the arena who didn't object to him taking pics.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, the rejection by the Penguins is meaningless as far as Kansas City's viability of supporting an NHL/NBA team is concerned. Lemieux was never seriously considering bringing the Penguins here; he just needed a pawn to play off Pittsburgh to get their new arena there.
There was a report of a new Negro Leagues ice hockey team coming to play there. The Ice Breakers, or some such.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that the Blacks love for diamond jewelry has translated into anything with the word 'ice' in it.
"Negro Leagues ice hockey"
ReplyDeleteThat is funny on so many levels.
Did you think about asking permission to use those pictures before you took them????
ReplyDeleteSprint Center will hold ~17K for hockey, ~18K for basketball, and ~19K max capacity. The big difference between Kemper and Sprint Center is that Sprint Center will have nearly 3 times as many luxury suites (72 to Kemper's 25) and will have 1700 club seats.
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