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the Castle on Daniel
Dkayak said:
Would you trade better stadium access for 7 football games for impeded SFC access for 19 basketball games (plus other events)? This reroute would consume a lot of SFC parking too. Kirby would still need to be closed on football days to allow fans parked south of your reroute to cross to the stadium. If instead you rely on lengthy and frequent crossings aided by traffic police, the rerouted Kirby wouldn’t carry enough traffic to be useful. That’s one reason it’s closed for football games today.

However, the bigger question is what problem are we trying to solve? Why doesn’t today’s Kirby setup work just fine? I still don’t understand the Kirby problem.
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I'm not worried about finding replacement parking for SFC. There are plenty of strategies that could be implemented to maintain the current count.

Kirby is too close to the stadium and it greatly limits what can be done to improve the SEZ. More room to work with adjacent to the stadium would give a lot more design flexibility.
 
#102      
Dkayak
the Castle on Daniel said:
I'm not worried about finding replacement parking for SFC. There are plenty of strategies that could be implemented to maintain the current count.

Kirby is too close to the stadium and it greatly limits what can be done to improve the SEZ. More room to work with adjacent to the stadium would give a lot more design flexibility.
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Seats as far back as Kirby would be too far from the field, 80-90 yards from the south goal line (and nearly 200 yards from the north one). Look at your overhead photo. Kirby isn’t nearly close enough to see the game. IMO they’d be terrible seats, tough to sell, and wouldn’t generate much revenue.

In addition, doing anything requiring Kirby’s space would now require moving our new, massive scoreboard. That won’t happen. @Fighter of the Nightman offered some great concepts for using the space on either side of the scoreboard, but nothing with Kirby’s setback. Go up, not south. Stay reasonably close to the field with decent sight lines.
 
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