K92 Posted September 19, 2014 Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 Why didn't we think of this before?! The Rubber Bowl would be a great location for Browns Training Camp! Problem solved! Now we can stop pitching a bitch about the pitch. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K92 Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Pictures of the Rubber Bowl courtesy of Newschannel 5.http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/akron-canton-news/photos-abandoned-rubber-bowl-at-university-of-akron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopper Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Nice comment by Mike Waddell in the comments section after the article. I don't know what those guys who bought the place we're smoking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Rolling Acres Mall looks like the Taj Mahal compared to this.I'd say it's now way far past putting a dome on it and reopening it. Maybe 10s of millions of dollars past that, not even including the dome. And that's besides the yearly maintenance/operating expenses that the U of A already said was unsustainable. Maybe we should just continue to let it deteriorate, and use it as a tourist attraction like the Roman Coliseum a few thousand years from now, and bill Akron as the new Athens, Greece, and draw tourists from around the world, and tell them about some ancient, barbaric game called "Football", that used to be played in the venue. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Skip's feelin' it! Good creativity. I'd suggest that UA invest a few bucks in a couple of buckets of paint and send someone out there to cover up all the UA markings. It's no longer owned by UA, but some looking at all the school markings will still associate it with UA, which is not good for UA's image. Maybe painting a big Team 1 Marketing Group logo on the RB and getting their name more associated with the mess would help expedite their plans to do something with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Zip Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Team 1 Marketing Group has resorted to promoting concerts rather than building domes. They owe more in property taxes ($73,983) than they paid for the property. They are currently delinquent in their payments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Team 1 Marketing Group has resorted to promoting concerts rather than building domes. They owe more in property taxes ($73,983) than they paid for the property. They are currently delinquent in their payments.That's usually the beginning of the end. Assuming that they paid cash for it, there's no bank lien. They could let it go and it would eventually be auctioned for the county to recover their property taxes. Unless, the property tax liens have been "sold" to a lienholder, in which case, someone other than the county already has a claim to the property. Like I said, usually it's hard to recover from this point. It seems as if they had potential plans, but may have decided to abandon them?The only other option, I believe, would be to try to sell the property. But with a 73K lien on it, what are the chances? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Skip's feelin' it! Good creativity. I'd suggest that UA invest a few bucks in a couple of buckets of paint and send someone out there to cover up all the UA markings. It's no longer owned by UA, but some looking at all the school markings will still associate it with UA, which is not good for UA's image. Maybe painting a big Team 1 Marketing Group logo on the RB and getting their name more associated with the mess would help expedite their plans to do something with it.Hey Dave, since I mentioned "Rolling Acres", I would like to expand on that tourism idea.How about if we include Rolling Acres as a bus stop on that tourism campaign, then we can include "Ancient American Football Stadium" and "Ancient American Shopping Mall" on the same tour?I'm sure that the people of the 30th Century would be quite fascinated with Akron's bygone way of life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZippyRulz Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Maybe we should just continue to let it deteriorate, and use it as a tourist attraction like the Roman Coliseum a few thousand years from now, and bill Akron as the new Athens, Greece, and draw tourists from around the world, and tell them about some ancient, barbaric game called "Football", that used to be played in the venue. In 1811, Paul Williams settled near the corner of what is now Buchtel Avenue and Broadway and suggested to surveyor of the Connecticut Western Reserve General Simon Perkins, the co-founding of a town at the summit of the developing Ohio and Erie Canal. The name derived from the Greek word ἄκρον signifying a summit or high point. (Wikipedia)So there's your ready-made tie-in to Greece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZippyRulz Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Anyone else find it ironic that a Cleveland station is traveling to Akron to take photos of decaying properties? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LZIp Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 I'm surprised the city didn't give them an abatement... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 In 1811, Paul Williams settled near the corner of what is now Buchtel Avenue and Broadway and suggested to surveyor of the Connecticut Western Reserve General Simon Perkins, the co-founding of a town at the summit of the developing Ohio and Erie Canal. The name derived from the Greek word ἄκρον signifying a summit or high point. (Wikipedia)So there's your ready-made tie-in to Greece.PERFECT. Thanks for sharing this fact. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spin Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 We couldn't land a minor league team, but there is football to be played at the Rubber Bowl yet in the form of semi-pro football.http://summitcountystorm.org/http://summitcountystorm.org/home-stadiumhttp://www.thepafl.com/?hc_location=ufiThat should pay the rent... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 We couldn't land a minor league team, but there is football to be played at the Rubber Bowl yet in the form of semi-pro football.http://summitcountystorm.org/http://summitcountystorm.org/home-stadiumhttp://www.thepafl.com/?hc_location=ufiThat should pay the rent... Ok, now I really want to know more. This entity is going to be playing at the Rubber Bowl in 2015? As their website suggests?After the pictures we just saw, I guess they could walk in there and play a football game on that field, but there's not going to be any allowable safe public or team access to any other part of that stadium. And the money it would take to make this venue even remotely inhabitable is going to be invested for this? Something that might attract...what...a few dozen paying fans per game?Come on. There's no way anyone involved could possibly think this is actually going to even happen there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LZIp Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 We couldn't land a minor league team, but there is football to be played at the Rubber Bowl yet in the form of semi-pro football.http://summitcountystorm.org/http://summitcountystorm.org/home-stadiumhttp://www.thepafl.com/?hc_location=ufiThat should pay the rent... Speaking of semi-pro football, whatever happened to Quentin Hines' league? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zen Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 I think Locheed should use the topography for an observatory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 Great idea to have an observatory in Akron where clouds are almost never a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zen Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 Great idea to have an observatory in Akron where clouds are almost never a problem. Oh, I forgot to mention he HAARP weather add-on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balsy Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 Great idea to have an observatory in Akron where clouds are almost never a problem. Or background electromagnetic interference from a nearby city... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zen Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 Or background electromagnetic interference from a nearby city...It's always problems problems problems with you negative nancys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spin Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 Ok, now I really want to know more. This entity is going to be playing at the Rubber Bowl in 2015? As their website suggests?After the pictures we just saw, I guess they could walk in there and play a football game on that field, but there's not going to be any allowable safe public or team access to any other part of that stadium. And the money it would take to make this venue even remotely inhabitable is going to be invested for this? Something that might attract...what...a few dozen paying fans per game?Come on. There's no way anyone involved could possibly think this is actually going to even happen there. I've been to a couple semi-pro games and they don't draw many people besides friends and relatives. One was at Copley High School. and one played in a park. So I wonder why they chose such a big stadium, and one that has no seating or anything else left. Maybe it was cheaper than renting a high school stadium. Unless they do some work to it, I'm not going back there. I want to remember it for how it was, not sit in the rotting dump it has become since the Zips moved out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted April 11, 2015 Report Share Posted April 11, 2015 Pictures of the Rubber Bowl courtesy of Newschannel 5.http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/akron-canton-news/photos-abandoned-rubber-bowl-at-university-of-akronLooks like the story somehow got picked up by Britain's largest tabloid.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3034837/Rubber-Bowl-Akron-Ohio-sits-abandoned-hosting-rock-legends-football-games.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZippyRulz Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 It's ultra-fascinating! Akron needs to start marketing it as a top tourist destination...Weather Channel:http://www.weather.com/travel/news/seph-lawless-abandoned-stadium Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LZIp Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 Heard on 94.9 this morning that the Summit County Storm (a non-profit football league?) plans to use the bowl. They must not have seen the recent pictures.http://summitcountystorm.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lance99 Posted April 27, 2015 Report Share Posted April 27, 2015 I guess you could call this an update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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