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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 1630120, member: 716"]
Interesting idea. There's got to be some better way to close in the east end than what we've been doing for the past decade (which looks terrible all the time).

I like the idea of centering the court on a sunken floor (same east-west orientation as the football field) and finding a creative and attractive way to close the upper deck for all but the largest games. If memory serves, the current Dome has about 19,000 first-level seats, with ~6,000 more on the second level. If 10% are lost as the building is re-seated, that'd leave ~22,000 seats in the current bowl, with probably 3,000 more seats created around the new sunken floor, along with room for some very close-in suites (beneath the current first level, a little like Pittsburgh's arrangement, only without the wasted space). Sight-lines would be terrific.

This, of course, would involve a retractable football floor above the basketball court and extra seats. I don't believe they'll pursue this, but it'd be an interesting way to create a relatively intimate hoops arena with about 25,000 seats and a lot of premium seating/box options, all while retaining the option to open the third deck and host crowds of about 50,000.
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