Montgomery development news
I'm sure this thread will only be updated every 6 months or so, but still.... :D
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Those parking decks are going to do a lot for downtown. Many developers are simply waiting for more parking in order to move forward with their plans.
Did you know that part of the reason Colonial scrapped their downtown high-rise is because they wanted the city to build them 2 parking decks within six months? But the city couldn't give Colonial a gaurantee that they could do it in time because the city was already working on building 2 other parking decks downtown: the Intermodal Deck, and the convention center/hotel parking deck. And now add to those the Coosa Street deck and the lower Dexter Avenue deck and there will be plenty of parking deck-building going on for a while. I think the city should have just said yes anyway but Colonial has enough money to build their own decks...why try to make the city build their decks? I think it was just a lame excuse anyway. |
I hope all the new parking decks are designed to be pedestrian-friendly and have retail or office space at ground level. Otherwise, they are just more ugly eyesores for downtown. Montgomery is plagued with too many ugly decks already.
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^ These decks are all supposed to be designed with retail on the bottom floors. I've only seen plans for one since the others are still in the design stage, and that's the Intermodal deck. It will be very pedestrian-friendly.
http://www.knology.net/~unlmtd/downtown/intermodal2.JPG |
Give Montgomery a Nice Arena
One thing I personally believe is missing from our Civic Center ( Embarrassment to this city ) turn Convention Center, among all the new things coming to our downtown, a Arena. Our Coliseum ( Garrett built in 1954 holds between 8000 and 14,000 depending on how you structure the seating ) is too old ( falling apart ) and not large enough for venues of this day. Most cities our size have an arena in their Convention complex , Columbus Ga, Tallahassee Fl, Huntsville, Mobile just to name a few. It would be nice for our city to have one ( arena ) that could seat between 15,000 and 20,000. I have never understood why the city leaders in the early 1970's settled with what we built, and look how many conventions we lost because we could not seat more than 4,000. One place that this arena would fit perfect in is the block behind the present configuration. Montgomery is usually" a day late and a dollar short"on most progress and I know this will never happen in my life time, but 10 years ago who would have ever thought we would have a new baseball stadium ?
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baby steps.... More has been done civicly in the past 5 than in the previous 20.
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THat's been my biggest gripe for years...why not have an arena? I have a feeling that one's coming really soon, though. Where, I don't know but the area you suggested, rabbi2007, is where most think it should be.
Don't get me started on why the city settled for what they called a civic center back in the 70's... :pissed: |
Hopefully, this year, we'll start seeing real economic results from the Hyundai plant... and pray that the tech group gets resurrected from BRAC.....
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On the rendering, is that tower actually in the water? That's awesome!
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Downtown
At least the cities I named have a Arena in their downtown. Alabama State University which is about 2 miles from downtown Montgomery has an Arena which seats about 8,000, but that is now the answer for our downtown.
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Downtown
At least the cities I named have a Arena in their downtown. Alabama State University which is about 2 miles from downtown Montgomery has an Arena which seats about 8,000, but that is not the answer for our downtown.
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The construction trailers have been onsite for a month or 2, but no sign of beginning construction yet. |
And you gotta love the JOE L. REED ACAdome!!
http://www.coasttocoasttickets.com/i...eedAcadome.jpg :) Montgomery several small (2000-8000) venues, but no good 'big ones'. Civic Center, Coliseum (not counting 'floor seats'), Ampitheater, Riverwalk stadium, Crampton bowl, Paterson field, Acadome, Carmichal (DEA :) ) center, ASF, museum ampitheater, Davis Theater, Civic Auditorium if its redone + a couple of 1000+ seat churches :laugh: as a kid, I even remember going to see Doug Henning (cheesy hippy/magician) at the Lee auditorium.... :hilarious *edit* I think ASF is only like 750.... but still... |
You Forgot
You Forgot the Historical ( LOL ) Crampton Bowl. It can hold 24,000 for a tight fit. The West side is as old as dirt, the east side was built in the early 60's. I am glad about one thing we no longer have the Bore Bowl (Blue Gray Classic ) here. This is one fire that needed to be put out years ago. Crampton Bowl could be a nice place, but like most things around here neglect and band aids have taken there toll.
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it's on there.... right after Riverwalk :)
I liked having the Blue-Gray game... :( |
Montgomery info
Montgomery had a nice theatre that was tore down by Troy to build the Rosa Parks Museum, the old Empire Theatre. In my opinion it was nicer than the Paramount ( changed name to Davis because the old lady loved seeing her name in lights). It held several hundred more than the Paramount ( Davis ). Troy has done much to that area of downtown so I am not knocking them for letting that one get away. I just wonder why the movers and shakers of this city have little vision. Take Riverwalk Stadium as an example, it seats 7,000 and for the past two years we have had many sellouts, why was its built to only hold this amount or why was it not built in the beginning to hold about 10,000 the standard sive for AA baseball ? Our old baseball stadium ( Paterson Field )holds 7,000. I know for years our past Mayor did all he could to discourage developement downtown. When he was on the city council he voted not to build any convention center. During his reign as KGB leader of Montgomery we had no concerts ( he ordered one raid to many and concert promoters would not even consider this city ). HELP Montgomery needs developers with Vision, plus we now have a great Mayor.
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Still depressed that Milo's is gone, but this will help some.
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