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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 2193591, member: 27"] Not sure if you are talking about the horse barn or the amphitheatre. If you are talking about the new horse barn, it is my understanding it is to be used for horse shows. The amphitheatre can only be used for a few months and the size (17.5k) is too big for many acts and too small for others. I would have used the SRC Arena instead. It is really small and inadequate for almost anything with a crowd but it can host HS athletic events and has done this to some extent. Or the baseball stadium. How can you say the Crunch don't need a bigger and more modern facility? Have you gone to the War Memorial? It is small, horribly designed and incredibly antiquated. You can't move around, the food options are terrible (no room), there are no private boxes, even the ice is awful. The Crunch can't even get a decent scoreboard installed there. AHL teams closest to Syracuse and their arena capacities Albany 14236 Binghamton 4679 Rochester 10664 St Johns 6287 Syracuse 6159 Toronto 7851/8140 Utica 3860 Bridgeport 8525 Hartford 14750 Hershey 10500 Lehigh Valley 8420/9046 Providence 11075 Springfield 6800 Wilkes-Barre 8300 Syracuse Crunch attendance history... I am not a hockey fan but I know the Crunch consistently fill the War Memorial to 95%. They have led the league in sellout games in the past. No question they would have a much high attendance if they played in a AHL level facility. What other city in the country is stuck trying to make do with a facility built more than 65 years ago? It is at best barely adequate. Here is some attendance data...more is available in the link provided. 2013-14 5574 2014-15 5986 2015-16 5410 2016-17 5502 [URL="http://www.hockeydb.com/nhl-attendance/att_graph.php?tmi=8362"]Syracuse Crunch yearly attendance at hockeydb.com[/URL] Meanwhile, the War Memorial sits on prime real estate that could be used for much better purposes. It makes sense to build a replacement in a bad area of the city that needs help getting turned around. [/QUOTE]

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