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Aud to be torn down!
Memorial Auditorium will be torn down and a new Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World store will be built in its place, under the latest plan to lure the retailer to Buffalo's inner harbor.
The Buffalo News has learned a cost-benefit analysis of retrofitting the idle sports arena into a retail-hotel-museum complex has concluded it makes better economic sense to tear down the Aud and build from scratch.
"This is a major breakthrough that will allow a contract to be signed in a matter of weeks, if not days," said a source involved in the two-year-long effort to get Bass Pro to make a binding commitment to Buffalo.
"They were always out of their element with a retrofit. They build new stores all the time, so this puts them back in their comfort zone," he said.
The source, who requested anonymity, said physical factors, including serious mold and asbestos problems in the mothballed arena, would put renovation costs "tens of millions of dollars" above the price of building a new facility. No cost projections for the new plan were available.
The Buffalo News has learned a cost-benefit analysis of retrofitting the idle sports arena into a retail-hotel-museum complex has concluded it makes better economic sense to tear down the Aud and build from scratch.
"This is a major breakthrough that will allow a contract to be signed in a matter of weeks, if not days," said a source involved in the two-year-long effort to get Bass Pro to make a binding commitment to Buffalo.
"They were always out of their element with a retrofit. They build new stores all the time, so this puts them back in their comfort zone," he said.
The source, who requested anonymity, said physical factors, including serious mold and asbestos problems in the mothballed arena, would put renovation costs "tens of millions of dollars" above the price of building a new facility. No cost projections for the new plan were available.
Now this is something we should petitioning, not some stupid logo!!! 
FAREWELL OLD FRIEND~SEYMOUR KNOX III
1940-2006
HOME OF THE SABRES 1970-1996
HOME OF THE SABRES 1970-1996
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