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Right next to RWS.
A downtown NFL stadium is the farthest thing from a single silver bullet solution to the economic problems that ail the city of Buffalo.
8 games a year downtown is not going to change much. Some new businesses will try to capitalize on the opportunity, but 8 days a year isn't much to work with. If the new venue acts as a convention center that hosts events year round, that's a different story that involves building a domed stadium, which is not a popular idea in Buffalo. Doesn't take a million dollar marketing study to figure out that Bills fans don't want to be stuck under a dome.
Retractable roof? It's only another $200 million.
What the Pegula's have going now downtown is great. Never saw so many people in the city on a Sunday....
I don't want to build a new stadium downtown for the sake of building a new stadium downtown with hopes that it will magically regenerate the city of Buffalo.
That's Fantasyland, and I'm a glass half full kind of guy.
Why didn't the Patriots build Gillette Stadium in downtown Boston?
Have you ever attempted to drive in Boston?
Jerryland was built in Arlington, TX. Why not Dallas?
Traffic.
On any given working day in the city of Buffalo, about 100,000 commuters or more travel to work downtown.
Imagine having every person that works downtown trying to travel to one place in the middle of the city.
Take a Buffalo Sabres playoff game and multiply the traffic X 5.
Hosting an NFL game in downtown Buffalo is not feasible without billions of dollars invested in road infrastructure expenditures.
If Terry and Kim Pegula can convince the State of New York to invest, "The Buffalo Billion," in new roads and bridges that will make the city capable of handling the traffic, then a new stadium downtown is possible.
The road infrastructure must be built first. The Pegula's can not possibly build a new stadium downtown without it.
Hoping New York State will kick the big bucks in to what is necessary to accommodate the amount of people that attend a Buffalo Bills game is wishful thinking at best.
A brand new stadium built right next to the Ralph?
No environmental studies necessary. No traffic study or road funding worries.
It's the path of least business building resistance.
If the Bills build a new stadium in Orchard Park, I don't think many fans would complain.
A downtown NFL stadium is the farthest thing from a single silver bullet solution to the economic problems that ail the city of Buffalo.
8 games a year downtown is not going to change much. Some new businesses will try to capitalize on the opportunity, but 8 days a year isn't much to work with. If the new venue acts as a convention center that hosts events year round, that's a different story that involves building a domed stadium, which is not a popular idea in Buffalo. Doesn't take a million dollar marketing study to figure out that Bills fans don't want to be stuck under a dome.
Retractable roof? It's only another $200 million.
What the Pegula's have going now downtown is great. Never saw so many people in the city on a Sunday....
I don't want to build a new stadium downtown for the sake of building a new stadium downtown with hopes that it will magically regenerate the city of Buffalo.
That's Fantasyland, and I'm a glass half full kind of guy.
Why didn't the Patriots build Gillette Stadium in downtown Boston?
Have you ever attempted to drive in Boston?
Jerryland was built in Arlington, TX. Why not Dallas?
Traffic.
On any given working day in the city of Buffalo, about 100,000 commuters or more travel to work downtown.
Imagine having every person that works downtown trying to travel to one place in the middle of the city.
Take a Buffalo Sabres playoff game and multiply the traffic X 5.
Hosting an NFL game in downtown Buffalo is not feasible without billions of dollars invested in road infrastructure expenditures.
If Terry and Kim Pegula can convince the State of New York to invest, "The Buffalo Billion," in new roads and bridges that will make the city capable of handling the traffic, then a new stadium downtown is possible.
The road infrastructure must be built first. The Pegula's can not possibly build a new stadium downtown without it.
Hoping New York State will kick the big bucks in to what is necessary to accommodate the amount of people that attend a Buffalo Bills game is wishful thinking at best.
A brand new stadium built right next to the Ralph?
No environmental studies necessary. No traffic study or road funding worries.
It's the path of least business building resistance.
If the Bills build a new stadium in Orchard Park, I don't think many fans would complain.
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