Stadium Delay?

[blueandgold]

I heard a little blurb on the radio yesterday, I think it was on 1350. All I heard was that there is a possible stadium delay, maybe until March, due to lawsuits. I never heard anything else about it. Anyone else hear anything like this?

[ziptrumpet87]

ABJ story

[blueandgold]

ABJ story

Thanks ziptrumpet87. I missed that article somehow.

[RACER]

i just dont see the new stadium opening on time.im sure to will get done but when? that would really mess up are schedule.would kentucky come here then to play in the rubber bowl.

[ZachTheZip]

All the properties are on the land that would be for the dorms, not the stadium, from what I can tell. I am almost positive that UA could start building the entire stadium as soon as the students move out of the current dorms. They can get a lot done even with a few holdouts.

[g-mann17]

From what I have seen, the only problem property for the stadium is The Odd Corner. Since all the renderings show one of the two ticketing gates sitting right on the corner of Brown and Exchange. This also appears to be where the public team shop would be located. The vast majority of the stadium and prep work (including the grading of the land for the recessed field) can probably be completed with out The Odd Corner being touched. But it will eventually have to go.

[GoZips88]

I'd be pushing dirt right up to the edge of the Odd Corner. Do all you can until things work themselves out.

[ZippyRulz]

A delay would not surprise me, especially if the holdouts want to go to court. Better to delay than rush too much and screw something up. Kentucky would play at the Rubber Bowl for the right price, but of course we couldn't pay it based on 8500 in attendance. More likely the game would be played at Lexington instead. We could move to the new stadium later in the season if necessary. It might be more fitting to have a conference foe as our first guests anyway. Maybe even Can't State.

[Lee Adams]

I heard a little blurb on the radio yesterday, I think it was on 1350. All I heard was that there is a possible stadium delay, maybe until March, due to lawsuits. I never heard anything else about it. Anyone else hear anything like this?

the Nemer brothers are going to make Uof A pay for the Sun Grill

[Captain Kangaroo]

I heard a little blurb on the radio yesterday, I think it was on 1350. All I heard was that there is a possible stadium delay, maybe until March, due to lawsuits. I never heard anything else about it. Anyone else hear anything like this?

the Nemer brothers are going to make Uof A pay for the Sun Grill

I luvs my IC Lights at The Sun Bar and Grille...but OUTTA' MY WAY JOE!!! THE WRECKIN' BALL'S A COMIN'!!!!

[g-mann17]

I heard a little blurb on the radio yesterday, I think it was on 1350. All I heard was that there is a possible stadium delay, maybe until March, due to lawsuits. I never heard anything else about it. Anyone else hear anything like this?

the Nemer brothers are going to make Uof A pay for the Sun Grill

The court is going to make them both sorry they didn't take UA's first offer.

[zen]

Gad, I remember drinkin at the sun. The one year I lived just up spicer and drank there all the time.Still, as fond as I am of the memories, to be honest, it's just a hole bar. Cripes, you can setup a shop like that anywhere. What's the big freakin deal? Are they one of the ones being a hardon about this?

[GP1]

From what I have seen, the only problem property for the stadium is The Odd Corner. Since all the renderings show one of the two ticketing gates sitting right on the corner of Brown and Exchange. This also appears to be where the public team shop would be located. The vast majority of the stadium and prep work (including the grading of the land for the recessed field) can probably be completed with out The Odd Corner being touched. But it will eventually have to go.

Getting rid of the Odd Corner is very simple. The student government should organize a campaign to encourage all university customers of the Odd Corner to buy their bowls, bongs and rolling papers at another store. Boycotts have traditionally worked well in US history. Why not one here?

[ZachTheZip]

From what I have seen, the only problem property for the stadium is The Odd Corner. Since all the renderings show one of the two ticketing gates sitting right on the corner of Brown and Exchange. This also appears to be where the public team shop would be located. The vast majority of the stadium and prep work (including the grading of the land for the recessed field) can probably be completed with out The Odd Corner being touched. But it will eventually have to go.

Getting rid of the Odd Corner is very simple. The student government should organize a campaign to encourage all university customers of the Odd Corner to buy their bowls, bongs and rolling papers at another store. Boycotts have traditionally worked well in US history. Why not one here?

Because we have the most apathetic student population in the country? They don't care what the cause is for; they won't do it. You couldn't organize them to actively do something even if you rewarded every student with a semester of free tuition.

[Lee Adams]

A delay would not surprise me, especially if the holdouts want to go to court. Better to delay than rush too much and screw something up. Kentucky would play at the Rubber Bowl for the right price, but of course we couldn't pay it based on 8500 in attendance. More likely the game would be played at Lexington instead. We could move to the new stadium later in the season if necessary. It might be more fitting to have a conference foe as our first guests anyway. Maybe even Can't State.

If Kentucky would show at the Bowl we would have 20-25K at least...IF JD has a real good year in 2008...

[interfx]

From what I have seen, the only problem property for the stadium is The Odd Corner. Since all the renderings show one of the two ticketing gates sitting right on the corner of Brown and Exchange. This also appears to be where the public team shop would be located. The vast majority of the stadium and prep work (including the grading of the land for the recessed field) can probably be completed with out The Odd Corner being touched. But it will eventually have to go.

Getting rid of the Odd Corner is very simple. The student government should organize a campaign to encourage all university customers of the Odd Corner to buy their bowls, bongs and rolling papers at another store. Boycotts have traditionally worked well in US history. Why not one here?

I have a simpler solution... Have a drunk/stoned college student loose control of their car, and crash right into the Odd Corner... Just like on the evening news - always seems like someone is driving through the front of restaurants, banks, hotels.On a more somber note, wouldn't it be sad if the Odd Corner is what is holding the Stadium back? A store that sells recreational drug paraphernalia to college students that aren't even old enough to drink, is slowing down "progress" at UA. I honestly never thought I'd see the day the UA was going to build a stadium on campus... Hope they get over this hurdle... (quickly)

[ZachTheZip]

Renters near UA in tight spot.About a dozen boarders in two rental homes are caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place as the University of Akron buys homes to clear the way for a new stadium and student housing.Many say they do not have the money for a security deposit and first month's rent for new lodging. So they must stay where they are until UA gives them a promised moving allowance of $1,500 each.Yet UA won't turn over the money until the sales close. So the boarders — adults all — may end up on the streets just days before Christmas.''It gets more confusing by the minute,'' said Jim Watkins, 45, who does siding and roofing work. ''We don't know anything and don't have any answers.'' UA is purchasing many properties on a 12-acre footprint southeast of campus to make way for a $32.5 million residence hall and a stadium which has a price tag that has risen from $55 million to $61.5 million because additional options have been added.The university has filed eminent domain lawsuits in Summit County Probate Court to force four property owners to sell and has come to termswith others.The latter includes Don Mangan of Can't, who has agreed to sell his two rental homes at 346 and 338 Spicer St. for a total of $308,500. The proposed sales go before the Ohio Controlling Board, the state agency that provides oversight of expenditures by public agencies, including universities, on Dec. 17.If the sales are approved, UA and Mangan would close the deals within a few days — possibly by Dec. 21, UA spokesman Paul Herold said.The university is offering $1,500 moving allocations to all residents who are being displaced from properties it acquires. In most cases, they have been UA students.But in Mangan's modest two-story century homes, they are adults in their 40s and up, some of whom have lived there for years. Some do not work.''We understand the unique position these folks are in,'' Herold said. ''We aim to hand them a check as they're moving out, the minute they leave, as soon as we own the property.''The university sent letters to Mangan's tenants this week to clarify the change in ownership, although it can't guarantee when it will take possession.In the meantime, four tenants have not paid their December rent — at least two of whom say they need the money for down payments on other places.The four tenants said Mangan is taking action to evict them before the university takes possession of the properties.Mangan could not be reached for comment.The tenants pay up to $275 a month for furnished bedrooms. They share bathrooms and kitchens with other lodgers, but keep to themselves and often don't know their living companions' last names.Pamela Sines, 42, said her room at 346 Spicer is a step up from her former lodgings — a ''terrible'' one-bedroom apartment. Getting her new home was a ''stroke of luck,'' said the widow and former truck driver.She spotted the house as she was walking to a CVS drugstore, loved the look and ''bugged'' Mangan to find her a spot.But the future doesn't look bright, she said this week. Sines said her only income is $493 a month in disability payments from Social Security for a spinal problem and $36 a month in food stamps. It will be hard to find something as nice on so limited a budget, she said.Thomas Fichter, 60, will be losing a home that is ideally situated to his work as manager of the Ultimate Wash car wash at East Exchange and Spicer streets.He is looking around for something close by because he doesn't own a car.Leaving will not pose a big problem for him, though, as after 14 years at 338 Spicer he has yet to unpack the boxes stacked in his small attic room, where the key piece of furniture is a single bed.Patrick Kolmer, 49, might be in the best shape.He has an open invitation to move into a friend's house in Can't but is sticking around to collect the moving allocation. He also said he has a new job waiting for him in Portage County as a telemarketer.He is blessed, he said, but the other tenants aren't as fortunate.''The fact that we live in a rooming house to begin with pretty much tells you we are no Rockefellers,'' he said.Sines said she has ''no choice except to stay, unless you know a refrigerator box I could move into somewhere.''------------------------------------------------------------------------There's a flamewar started on Ohio.com's messageboard about this. Some people are taking the opportunitty to hate on everything UA stands for, which seems to be the prevailing attitude around the city. Nobody wants UA, but the city will die a slow and painful death without them. All parties are wrong in this case. The tennents who don't pay rent are setting themselves up to be evicted before UA can cut them the $1500 check, The owners are trying to take the money and run. UA is trying to get everyone out of there as fast as possible without regards to what happens to the people afterwards (although to be fair, tose people should have seen this coming for years now).

[ZipAlumn]

Excellent Post uakronkid ....... very informative. Thanks.