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Message: [QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 252396, member: 716"] This is a pair of good points. First, the idea that Central New York is some depressed ghost town is silly. Unemployment is low; Syracuse routinely appears on lists of successful cities. Second, going after the younger crowd should be a priority. There's been a sea change in demographics up here as the area transitioned away from a manufacturing economy; most diehard football fans are either old or living in the Carolinas. SU's got to do something to get the football team on young people's radar and make it an integral part of the local social scene. Additionally - you didn't touch on this, but it's a fairly common theme - the traffic/lust for a Skytop stadium as a panacea thing is pretty ridiculous. First, as most note, traffic and parking aren't difficult for those who aren't horrified by a 15-minute walk on city streets. Second, there's going to be some delay associated with any attraction that draws 40,000 people - we're not talking about pulling up to your local Wal-Mart. Build that new South Campus stadium (with several hundred million dollars of currently non-existent money). How're people going to get there? Mass transit? Doubt it - people don't like that option for the Dome; can't see that changing with a new facility. Pedestrian access? No - it's way farther removed from the urban core and pedestrian infrastructure than the current building. Cars? I guess that's all that's left. But they won't be coming from the west; there's a neighborhood there, with no through streets. Won't be coming from the east; Drumlins is there. Perhaps the state will spend tens of millions of dollars to build an I-481 interchange (taxpayers would find that an odd spending decision, since Syracuse already has a perfectly adequate and accessible stadium that is served by public streets). So 40,000 people can drive their cars to a new facility served by Skytop Road (and the narrow city streets it connects to) and a single-point interchange to the south, all to park in a large surface lot and still walk about 10 minutes to get into the building. And then they'll sit in traffic as they wait to leave from those two exits, damning Syracuse University and swearing to never return to that horrid, inaccessible stadium. Sounds familiar. [/QUOTE]

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