Raleigh Stadium/Arena/Sports Discussions

Here are the final 3 games of the season :

UNC has been the final game for more than a decade.

Yup. Gorgeous weather, too, and BC is godawful this year. It should be a near-sellout, but a relaxed vibe.

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Yes, State’s all time best home winning streak is 16 in a row. They’ve done that a couple times I believe and if they win tomorrow it’ll be #17 in a row at home for the first time ever.

This one goes into more detail about it.

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Didn’t know if this one should have been in the Stadium thread (or other cities one) so feel free to move. NYCFC of the MLS is finally building a stadium and what they’re going to build sounds a lot like what DTS hopes to be. It’ll be a 25k seater stadium anchoring a district in Queens with 2,500 affordable housing units, a hotel, and a school with all of this. They’ve been playing their games on the New York Yankees field (and random other places) since their inception into the league in 2015.

Interestingly it says this whole stadium will be ‘privately financed’ while they (New York state government) just signed off on giving the Bills $850 million for their new stadium.

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Sees like downtown south is getting the amphitheater and some office buildings. Hope the stadium eventually comes for some soccer and maybe even a SBC/AAC bowl game or something.

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I can’t wait to see downtown south groundbreaking

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Waking up today in the afterglow. Go Wolfpack! :wolf: :tuffy:

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Imo, they need to completely scrap that dumb MLS stadium all together and let Dundon build a new Canes arena there. just a thought

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Meanwhile charlotte usa intends to host an outdoor game for a minor league hockey team…guess where!!! Downtown…uh, i mean uptown :roll_eyes:

While back in Raleigh…we can’t get a single sports facility downtown…& continue to burn cycles on an illusion that somehow the State of NC & NC State are going to somehow give or even sell property to Dundon to develop the parking lot…

https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2022/12/12/checkers-knights-uptown-truist-field-sports.html

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…I mean they’re doing that because they want their own version of Raleigh hosting the NHL Stadium Series. Which is the big prize.

Yeah the stadium need to attract an MLB team. Or become multipurpose to attract a baseball team or soccer team, just a place for a minor team doesn’t work.

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We need to more meaning to them. I’m sick of Malik not opening his mind. I’m sick of that we don’t have a downtown arena. I believe it’s because of the struggle to getting out of car-dependency. I believe there was a survey on it but there no space downtown either.

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I’m curious what’s the purpose of posting about how we “need to attract MLB” and/or “we should move PNC/Hurricanes arena downtown” every couple of weeks? Unless there’s actual concrete news of either of these things happening… just kinda feels like beating the long-ago-rotted out, now broken-to-pieces skeleton of a dead horse.

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BizJournal stirred the pot recently hinting that the Canes owner is still undecided about ‘things’.

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…so no concrete news or even an inkling of this being a possibility, currently LMAO

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Much more dense cities don’t seem to have a problem finding space…we’re just not trying hard enough. There is definitely space.

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What I think every time I open this thread

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Then San Antonio being an hour away. Yes with NBA, and MLB and NFL in Dallas. And NHL in there also Austin pretty much a secondary NFC Market. Austin all they could get was MLS regardless of FC Dallas.

The same could be done with MLB to Raleigh Downtown South figuring out how to build a stadium for a 2nd-tee team and poorly growing female sports association plagued with problems and scandals where they could put all that energy to a Major League Baseball team. It would alleviate any problem of a placing a new sports field.

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I was just there 24-hours ago, that there only team and they’re a small market. And then besting the cowboys was a big deal to there leading off all there newscasts locally. And they’re just I don’t know if there area is suited for a second one.

I really think Raleigh should utilize PNC Arena renovation as a leverage for another league. There is only select leagues, but that opens doors for NBA relocation/Expansion, NLL, WNBA, etc.

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