OT: Temple's quest for an on-campus stadium is moving forward

[huskypantz]

Exactly. SEPTA station literally drops you at Temple's door step

I understand SEPTA, but tailgates are an essential part of football. I could stop by Crown Friend Chicken, get a bag to go and sit on a sidewalk on Broad St...........I guess.

 

[TheDrifter75]

I understand SEPTA, but tailgates are an essential part of football. I could stop by Crown Friend Chicken, get a bag to go and sit on a sidewalk on Broad St......I guess.

This is where a tailgate service like UConn, Auburn etc offers could come in real handy.

 

[huskymedic]

I understand SEPTA, but tailgates are an essential part of football. I could stop by Crown Friend Chicken, get a bag to go and sit on a sidewalk on Broad St......I guess.

Not sure when the last time you were on/near campus but there are quite a few surface lots within three/four/five campus blocks (btwn Broad and 9th) of the proposed site.

Heck they might be closer than the end of the Red lot @ the Rent.

 

[huskypantz]

Not sure when the last time you were on/near campus but there are quite a few surface lots within three/four/five campus blocks (btwn Broad and 9th) of the proposed site.

Heck they might be closer than the end of the Red lot @ the Rent.

It's been a few years since I did a drivethrough of N Broad and a solid 15 years since I lived there. Regardless of the number of lots, my point remains that SEPTA is really only relevant if you don't want to tailgate or you have a tailgate group that you're going to meet up with.

 

[huskymedic]

It's been a few years since I did a drivethrough of N Broad and a solid 15 years since I lived there. Regardless of the number of lots, my point remains that SEPTA is really only relevant if you don't want to tailgate or you have a tailgate group that you're going to meet up with.

Understood. My bad... in my haste to head out, I failed to attach @TheDrifter75 ’s post about “tailgate service companies” above your quote so my reply made more sense.

 

[TheDrifter75]

Understood. My bad... in my haste to head out, I failed to attach @TheDrifter75 ’s post about “tailgate service companies” above your quote so my reply made more sense.

I've never been there, was just going off what others were posting.

 

[huskymedic]

I've never been there, was just going off what others were posting.

Temple Premium Tailgating

 

[CL82]

Have you ever been there? I have. Good luck. I can’t wait to see 40000 cars on the Shurekill Expressway and Broad Street. And we all think Storrs is a traffic bottleneck.

You do realize that Philadelphia has a mass transportation system, right?
( And why in gods name would 40,000 cars and up on the Schuykill? Temples not near it.)

 

[Padutch5]

You do realize that Philadelphia has a mass transportation system, right?
( And why in gods name would 40,000 cars and up on the Schuykill? Temples not near it.)

That same transit system goes to the football, baseball and hockey stadiums. If you have ever been there you Might remember giant parking lots filled to overflowing and jams on the expressways. There are actually better highways down there than at a Temple and it isn’t in the middle of a heavily populated area like Temple although to be fair, it butts up to a populated area.
All of this pro football on campus stadium discussion at Temple is nuts. As I said in a previous post, that talk has been going on for at least 40 years. With all of the litigation that will develop when plans to condemn local housing and businesses for construction are announced, this is at least 10 years in the future.

 

[Padutch5]

You do realize that Philadelphia has a mass transportation system, right?
( And why in gods name would 40,000 cars and up on the Schuykill? Temples not near it.)

How do you think you get to Broad Street from the burbs? The Surekill is one of the major arteries into the city from the North . The

 

[huskymedic]

With all of the litigation that will develop when plans to condemn local housing and businesses for construction are announced, this is at least 10 years in the future.

They already own all the property for the footprint of the stadium... no need to acquire/condemn any local housing/businesses.

Now if you want to argue noise/litigation about game-day impact that would be a fair point but it will not stop the project. First game on campus in under 4 years.

 

[Redding Husky]

Interesting artist rendering. Where do they park where he cars?
Temple has been moving forward with an “ on campus” stadium since we lived there 40 years ago.

They followed the SMU model: beautiful on campus stadium with no parking.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

I can’t wait to see 40000 cars on the Shurekill Expressway and Broad Street. ... The Surekill is one of the major arteries into the city from the North .

Schuykill to Surekill? No pun intended regarding some areas nearby Temple's campus?

They followed the SMU model: beautiful on campus stadium with no parking.

One potential difference: Maybe some more Temple fans will actually go into their games versus tossers just showing up in hopes of being seen or inexplicably impressing someone on SMU's tailgate boulevard.

 

[Padutch5]

Schuykill to Surekill? No pun intended regarding some areas nearby Temple's campus?
One potential difference: Maybe some more Temple fans will actually go into their games versus tossers just showing up in hopes of being seen or inexplicably impressing someone on SMU's tailgate boulevard.

The natives call the expressway Surekill, not the neighborhood.

 

[Padutch5]

They already own all the property for the footprint of the stadium... no need to acquire/condemn any local housing/businesses.

Now if you want to argue noise/litigation about game-day impact that would be a fair point but it will not stop the project. First game on campus in under 4 years.

You need to read some of the local newspapers re local opposition. It does wipe out some minority neighborhoods that have been coming back.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

The natives call the expressway Surekill, not the neighborhood.

Guess that's a positive of sorts ?

 

[huskymedic]

You need to read some of the local newspapers re local opposition. It does wipe out some minority neighborhoods that have been coming back.

I’m quite familiar w/ all the issues and neighborhood. My son is a Senior @ Temple in Sports Mgmt and I have spent two and 1/2 years in North Philly doing some work w/ Temple Health Systems. There will be no neighborhood buildings that need to be knocked down. There will be game day impact but no “wiping out” of neighborhoods along W. Norris St. Look @ the maps...

Heck - the local high school on the back side of the proposed stadium will actually have the opportunity to raise money renting out their parking spaces for tailgating ala the school across from Michigan Stadium.

 

[CL82]

The natives call the expressway Surekill, not the neighborhood.

If you've ever driven you know why. It is an accident waiting to happen.

 

[uconnphil2016]

Temple's Proposed Football Stadium Appears Doomed Without City Council Support

 

[huskymedic]

Temple's Proposed Football Stadium Appears Doomed Without City Council Support

Quintessential Philly politics...

From last week-ish:

Protesters shut down Temple football stadium town hall

 

[Padutch5]

Quintessential Philly politics...

From last week-ish:

Protesters shut down Temple football stadium town hall

For those who haven’t followed Philadelphia history. This is exactly why the football, baseball and basketball/hockey stadiums are clustered in South Philadelphia. When they built a new baseball stadium to replace Connie Mack stadium(which was not far from Temple), there was so much opposition to something in center city that they chose the old run down warehouse district near the then JFK stadium. What they did do ( hint to those who can’t give up on a stadium in Storrs) they extended the subway to the stadium complex ( no, not a busway). That helps traffic which I’m not sure they have really addressed in the Temple proposal.

 

[huskypantz]

Well that is an interesting article, that's some serious NIMBY presence.

 

[huskymedic]

w/ a few newer stadium renderings: Temple releases details on proposed stadium

 

[Drew]

Can't say it enough. I really really hope this happens for them.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Adios]

Loads of people are anti-gentrification. Because they know they'll be priced out of nice settings. After that presentation, not much can be argued against the project except we don't want our rents to go up.

 

[BRG 1]

If anyone has ever been to SEC games, or really many big time on campus stadiums around the country, it really is amazing how many are not just dumped in the middle of unending parking lots.

Instead, many are squeezed into the middle of campus, similar to the way ballparks like Fenway are squeezed into city blocks.

I thinks it's pretty cool.

People here don't really understand that.

This isn't the NFL.

I lived in Gainesville Florida from 1992 to 1997. Ben Hill Griffin Stadium and the surrounding campus has little parking. People would park on the grass on people's lawns @ $5 to $10 a car. We would park 10 - 12 cars and use the proceeds for beer money. We were about 10 streets from the Stadium.
As the other poster said, large stadiums surrounded by miles of concrete is an NFL thing.