That’s true. Or it might even make that day come (slightly?) sooner, if you can artificially bump up demand. But…
This makes me worried, though, since the RDU-540-147 stretch of I-40 seems to be a bottleneck for traffic. Unless we can speed up the creation of managed express/HOV lanes to coincide with a stadium like that opening, I feel like the auto congestion problem would stick around long enough to be considered a fatal flaw.
Besides, why does the mall have to get demolished? We can probably just convert or build on top of the massively excessive amounts of parking lots that are already there.
EDIT: I quickly slapped together this drawing on the Regional Mall thread. I feel like it may be possible to repurpose the parking lots and empty/abandoned spaces around TTC and make a stadium complex possible?