UBS Arena: Lower the Roof

[SI]

 

[SI]

I just keep looking at the pic in the top right -that smoothed over dirt

 

[IslesCLT]

I just keep looking at the pic in the top right -that smoothed over dirt

Yup. Looks like the ice is already better than Barclay's!

 

[LetsGoIslanders]

Really hate to break this to you but the internal combustion engine has about as much a future as cable television does.

The electric engine still depends on a fossil fuel (or God forbid, nuclear) plant to fuel electricity for the charging station. And the car that runs on electric will still cost $10k higher than the gas powered model.

 

[The Lighthouse]

 

[FractionTwo]

Can't wait to go to belmont once it opens up: gonna be a gorgeous arena

 

[Throttle]

Iconic...

 

[lorwood]

The electric engine still depends on a fossil fuel (or God forbid, nuclear) plant to fuel electricity for the charging station. And the car that runs on electric will still cost $10k higher than the gas powered model.

That extra 10k will quickly drop as more manufacturers go all electric.

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Nuclear will be a significant part of our future energy grid as the technology now exists to safely produce energy using nuclear.

Also there has been a current breakthrough on batteries that will really advance the EV

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[SI]

I wonder what the next steps are for the bowl?

Railings? seats? Ice?

 

[FractionTwo]

I wonder what the next steps are for the bowl?

Railings? seats? Ice?

railings probably. seats is usually last for any arena

 

[eoin92]

I wonder what the next steps are for the bowl?

Railings? seats? Ice?

Obstructed views.

 

[doublechili]

Nuclear will be a significant part of our future energy grid as the technology now exists to safely produce energy using nuclear.

This is the reason I honestly don't understand how "climate change" is an existential crisis. If it is an existential crisis, then nuclear power combined with improving battery technology can basically make the crisis go away.

 

[leeroggy]

Iconic...

What is this broad talking about? There's only ONE IIconic place in the Northeast! And to Eoin92, THIS is UNOBSTRUCTED for you . . .

 

[Costigan77]

railings probably. seats is usually last for any arena

cup holders

 

[CupHolders]

cup holders

Damn straight! I’m not showing up until they have the craft beer breweries all set!

 

[Steve55]

 

[SI]

Does anyone know what the construction schedule is for the next two months?

 

[WagnerGrad96]

The electric engine still depends on a fossil fuel (or God forbid, nuclear) plant to fuel electricity for the charging station. And the car that runs on electric will still cost $10k higher than the gas powered model.

Or people will get a large chunk of their electricity from Solar and charge their cars from that stored energy

 

[doublechili]

Or people will get a large chunk of their electricity from Solar and charge their cars from that stored energy

Last I heard we get less than 10% of our energy from solar, wind, etc.. Maybe less than 5%. The transition is going to take a while.

 

[Steve55]

 

[Throttle]

Or people will get a large chunk of their electricity from Solar and charge their cars from that stored energy

Good luck with that...

 

[MJF]

Just a reminder that UBS Arena is just one component of a larger project...the renovation of Belmont Park Racetrack and transformation of its surrounding grounds, which have been largely underused for decades.

"The arena and everything else with it is going to bring a lot of fun to Belmont Park," said Rudy Rodriguez, the leading trainer at the current Aqueduct Racetrack meet who is stabled year-round at Belmont Park, "and we can use it because of what we are going through with coronavirus."
While the arena stands as the centerpiece of the new development, much more will be coming to Belmont Park in the next few years.

Rows of shops will be built in what is now Belmont Park's Yellow (South) parking lot on the other side of Hempstead Turnpike and construction on a parking garage there will begin next month. A regular train stop inside Belmont Park is under construction and will be added to the Long Island Railroad's Main Line, joining the special spur to the facility on racing days. A hotel will follow as part of what was originally pitched to the Empire State Development Corporation as a $1.18 billion project.
And as hockey fans are making plans to buy season tickets for games at the UBS Arena at Belmont Park, NYRA officials have been working on their own plans to eventually modernize a 119-year-old racing facility that was rebuilt in 1968 and, despite all of its aesthetic beauty, has become a dinosaur in an era of mobile wagering with its massive 1.3 million square-foot grandstand.
"Hopefully this is the start of a decade of development and modernization of the Belmont site," said Martin Panza, NYRA's senior vice president of racing operations. "I know that's what we are working on. There's a lot of potential for things we can do there."
NYRA's wish list, once it secures funding and state approvals, figures to include rebuilding the grandstand and clubhouse as well as the main track and two turf courses in order to modernize the plant with an eye toward making it NYRA's lone downstate track. There could even be sports betting in the future, provided the proper state legislation is passed.
A small slice of that project will begin this year as Kozak said Belmont Park's grandstand paddock entrance will be renovated, and afterwards the track's backyard area, which has been basically reduced in half due to the arena and its walkways, will receive new mutuel bays and rest rooms.
It's all part of what promises to be the biggest change at Belmont Park in more than 50 years and has become even more of a necessity with a sparkling new building on the grounds that will bring tens of thousands of new faces—and potential new customers—to the facility on a regular basis.

Hockey Arena to Usher in Decade of Change at Belmont - BloodHorse

 

[MatthewBarnabysTears]

Just a reminder that UBS Arena is just one component of a larger project...the renovation of Belmont Park Racetrack and transformation of its surrounding grounds, which have been largely underused for decades.

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No offense, but I’ll believe later stages of a big multi-stage development will happen when it actually does.

 

[MJF]

No offense, but I’ll believe later stages of a big multi-stage development will happen when it actually does.

"I'll believe there's a new arena when there are shovels in the ground"

If they sell memorial bricks for the arena, this is going to be inscribed on mine.

 

[Quickdraw2828]

While the roof is certainly low for a new arena, those highest seats seem like they are set far back from the ice