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09-06-2006, 11:37 PM
Forked from: Aud to be torn down! (http://www.billszone.com/fanzone/showpost.php?postid=1625099)
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.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060903/1073970.asp
Remember that line from the movie Field of Dreams "If you build it, they will come."
Well now, it could be a case of "if you demolish it, they will come." Bass Pro that is.
A study is now underway to determine if it would be cheaper to renovate the Aud, or instead, simply knock it down to house the proposed Bass Pro superstore.
Members of the Canal Harbor Development Corporation say that because they're finding more and more environmental problems inside the Aud -- asbestos and mold for instance -- they've changed their focus from renovation to possibly demolition.
http://www.wgrz.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=40974
http://www.wgrz.com/video/vplayer.aspx?aid=17737&bw= [QUOTE]After watching the video it's time to LET IT GO! :sadwalk:
FAREWELL OLD FRIEND~SEYMOUR KNOX III
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1940-2006
HOME OF THE SABRES 1970-1996
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.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060903/1073970.asp
Remember that line from the movie Field of Dreams "If you build it, they will come."
Well now, it could be a case of "if you demolish it, they will come." Bass Pro that is.
A study is now underway to determine if it would be cheaper to renovate the Aud, or instead, simply knock it down to house the proposed Bass Pro superstore.
Members of the Canal Harbor Development Corporation say that because they're finding more and more environmental problems inside the Aud -- asbestos and mold for instance -- they've changed their focus from renovation to possibly demolition.
http://www.wgrz.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=40974
http://www.wgrz.com/video/vplayer.aspx?aid=17737&bw= [QUOTE]After watching the video it's time to LET IT GO! :sadwalk:
FAREWELL OLD FRIEND~SEYMOUR KNOX III
http://classicbuffalo.com/images/TheAudFinal.jpg
1940-2006
HOME OF THE SABRES 1970-1996