Swart Dra said:
The arena downtown will be an utter fail. This is such a dumb decision. It should be with the other sports venues.
I don't think it will be a fail. I do think it would have been nice to have it next to the other sporting venues and keep all the sports in the two locations along the river right there.
But the location is not bad. Just past the Robinson tower and close to many places that students live downtown. It is also closer to the older dorms on that side of campus. Even the ones along 8th street like Collins, memorial, alexander, etc. are closer to that then the FC. Then you have Penland, Martin, Brooks, The north village that are all really close. The FC site is really only close to the apartments over there and the new East village.
So the distance to student housing seems like a non point when you really look at all the different locations of student housing.
Parking wise/traffic wise it will be difficult but no more so than going to the football stadium.