More speculation on new practice facilities

[CarolinaXblue]

2 hours ago, Snake said:

No one wants to drive out that way. South Carolina will offer better incentives than Charlotte and will be a much cheaper and expandable market. 

The Eastland Mall site is literally five minutes away from where the stadium is now. Why would no one want to drive out that way?

[Mr. Scot]

1 hour ago, CarolinaXblue said:

The Eastland Mall site is literally five minutes away from where the stadium is now. Why would no one want to drive out that way?

The problem with another site in Charlotte is that it doesn't fulfill the "two Carolinas" vibe that Tepper wants, and by all accounts he's pretty serious about that notion.

Places in Fort Mill, like the one Towelboy mentioned, fit into that ideal.

[Billy Love]

1 hour ago, CarolinaXblue said:

The Eastland Mall site is literally five minutes away from where the stadium is now. Why would no one want to drive out that way?

5 minutes is an extreme exaggeration 

[Snake]

2 hours ago, CarolinaXblue said:

The Eastland Mall site is literally five minutes away from where the stadium is now. Why would no one want to drive out that way?

Why even move the stadium then? Same BS with worse traffic flow. South Carolina would give a better deal, in a better location, with less red tape. 

[Moo Daeng]

Gantt explained it well on wfnz. Practice facilities are not built for the sake of fancy training facilities. They are built for business sake. They would be built away from the current stadium in order to better utilize that prime realestate next to the stadium for something that generates revenue. It would be built in order to use the space in the Stadium currently housing training facilities to be used for revenue generating purposes.

[grateflday]

I am all for a fancy practice facility paid for or at least participating in the cost by State and Local Gov.  That way it would more likely mean Tepper won't be getting the same for a new stadium... maybe for the current one but a new one and that would make me very happy  

[Moo Daeng]

I question whether the facility would use any public funding. That would have trade offs for Tepper and the team in terms of how it would be used. The Wilf family funded the development of the new facility they have just moved in to. 

[CarolinaXblue]

On 6/29/2018 at 2:50 PM, Snake said:

Why even move the stadium then? Same BS with worse traffic flow. South Carolina would give a better deal, in a better location, with less red tape. 

 

On 6/29/2018 at 2:31 PM, Billy Love said:

5 minutes is an extreme exaggeration 

Snake, I agree. I don’t think moving the stadium to the Eastland Mall site is the answer.

 

Billy,

I live right off Sharon Amity by the QT which is on the backside of the Eastland Mall site, it literally takes me 5 minutes to get uptown.

[CarolinaXblue]

On 6/29/2018 at 2:25 PM, Mr. Scot said:

The problem with another site in Charlotte is that it doesn't fulfill the "two Carolinas" vibe that Tepper wants, and by all accounts he's pretty serious about that notion.

Places in Fort Mill, like the one Towelboy mentioned, fit into that ideal.

Yeah I agree, just making the statement that it’s not far away. Other than a dome and a bigger site for a stadium, why would anyone in their right mind that knows this area want to deal with 77 traffic? It’s already gridlocked half the time. Can you imagine that plus football traffic?

[Moo Daeng]

If there is zero traffic which is never

[CarolinaXblue]

Just now, Moo Daeng said:

If there is zero traffic which is never

Other than first thing in the morning, I’ll give you that. But I drive it everyday and it’s never that bad, no where close to the traffic you’d see if the stadium was in Fort Mill and you had 77 traffic plus football traffic. But once again, I definitely do not think the stadium should be in the Eastland Mall parking lot haha, I just don’t think it’s that far that people wouldn’t want to “drive that way”.

[Moo Daeng]

38 minutes ago, CarolinaXblue said:

Other than first thing in the morning, I’ll give you that. But I drive it everyday and it’s never that bad, no where close to the traffic you’d see if the stadium was in Fort Mill and you had 77 traffic plus football traffic. But once again, I definitely do not think the stadium should be in the Eastland Mall parking lot haha, I just don’t think it’s that far that people wouldn’t want to “drive that way”.

Not the stadium, the practice facility. I can't imagine either being there.