Rogers Place Construction - Part VII - Now with more corporate sponsorship

[McHilman]

This will be the skeleton of the building, the red parts denote steel and the bottom section is what is seen in the above picture.

 

[Diamondillium]

This will be the skeleton of the building, the red parts denote steel and the bottom section is what is seen in the above picture.

I'm equally excited for this to start shaping up as I am for the arena. From the earlier picture, looks like it's not too far away from starting to rise upwards.

 

[KCC]

Come on guys. Ford hall Cant be as bad as detroits new name for their actual new arena.

 

[Oil Gauge]

Katz is already going to make tons of money already. you'd think his group would have been ok with it remaining the winter garden in some capacity.
They could have had conditions on what it could be named.

Ford Hall has no class. sounds like a Quonset hut.

Since when has any business been happy with only selling a portion of their ad space?

Obviously they weren't going to let them name it something offensive, it would be approved by the katz group.

Never said it sounded good, just disagreed with your opinion that the katz group was trying to avoid having people call it the winter garden and omitting the name Ford, when it would be Ford that would be doing that.

 

[McHilman]

Missed opportunity to call it Little Caesars Palace.....

 

[tv14]

Missed opportunity to call it Little Caesars Palace.....

Still think Detroit's should be called Little Caesars Pizz-Arena

 

[guymez]

Still think Detroit's should be called Little Caesars Pizz-Arena

Well played.

Seriously though...Ford Hall...talk about lame.

I think it will end up being the same as Commonwealth. Nobody calls it the Brick Field. If they do they should be publically flogged.

I will be calling it the Winter Garden....not Ford Hall.
I suspect I wont be alone.

 

[soothsayer]

I'll still be calling it the "arena" and the "entrance."

 

[PBandJ]

so when does Ice District get a corporate name?

"Welcome to Molson's Ice District Powered by Telus Fueled by Monster"

Fixed that for ya.

 

[Asher]

 

[guymez]

Classic.

Not quite the same as 'Ford Hall' but certainly illustrative of where things are headed.

Scary to think that many people actually embrace this over extension of corporatism.

 

[MCDAVIDISH]

Does anyone know how many pokestops there will be at the new arena distric?? I could see that being a great place for lure mods

 

[BigMac1212]

Ford:

Fix
Or
Repair
Daily

 

[Sniper99]

Are they really going to sell out Rogers Place for the Oil Kings game on Sept 24th? I'm seeing only 3 sections available in the 200 level available on ticketmaster. Nothing lower bowl.

 

[Gord]

Are they really going to sell out Rogers Place for the Oil Kings game on Sept 24th? I'm seeing only 3 sections available in the 200 level available on ticketmaster. Nothing lower bowl.

I think they will. for people wanting to check out the new arena and see a hockey game, Oil kings would be your best bet. you could actually get a ticket, and it's way cheaper than the Oilers.

 

[Replacement*]

Seems weird, Maybe a typical Ticketmaster snafu of not releasing all tickets. Canada Russia game has not too many tickets sold and only lower bowl available. My hunch is they're having some kind of error with the home opener. Didn't they just become available?

Anyway, good way to see the new barn for 20 bucks. That's reasonable. Glad to see fans in this hard hit economy are getting that option.

 

[Stoneman89]

Seems weird, Maybe a typical Ticketmaster snafu of not releasing all tickets. Canada Russia game has not too many tickets sold and only lower bowl available. My hunch is they're having some kind of error with the home opener. Didn't they just become available?

Anyway, good way to see the new barn for 20 bucks. That's reasonable. Glad to see fans in this hard hit economy are getting that option.

Try to get into a restaurant in this city on a Friday or Saturday and tell me that.

 

[Sniper99]

No tickets available now. I'll wait and see if that changes in the next couple days. Maybe an error who knows.

 

[Replacement*]

No tickets available now. I'll wait and see if that changes in the next couple days. Maybe an error who knows.

Last time I saw something like this was the Womens FIFA tournament here last year when Ticketmaster was only releasing blocks of tickets at a time for the opener.

Sometimes its intentional to create attention, buzz, and a notion an event is selling out to stimulate sales. Other time its a flat out mistake. But for no tickets at all to be available? that's a pretty damn quick sellout if that is legit. Like has anything like this ever happened in league junior hockey anywhere?

Great for the Oil Kings if it is. But like I say I can't understand Canada Russia sales being slow when I last checked. Rather see that game. They way I look at it Arena will be more finished then as well so win/win. I can wait for it.

 

[Sniper99]

What I find weird is they only have 3 Oil King games available. What about the rest of their season?

They have the Opener on the 24th and then no other games available till Feb 24/25th when they're in Prince George.

 

[McHilman]

From Virex393 on C2E:

 

[Dorian2]

^ When are they going to show these scenes based on the middle of January snow storm with 30 Km/h winds in - 40 degree temps?

Just curious.

 

[McHilman]

 

[Kevotron]

Ok... now lets photoshop in some brown windrows and sandy brown pact snow covering the pavement....

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Ok... now lets photoshop in some brown windrows and sandy brown pact snow covering the pavement....

Ok, but probably simpler to imagine that an this new with this much investment will likely be well maintained when it comes to the predictable snow fall.