[COM] Memorial Drive upgrade

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[COM] Re: Memorial Drive upgrade

#691 Post by ml69 » Wed Jul 06, 2022 10:37 pm

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Well Marshall did propose a $600 million "basketball stadium", but the ppl voted. Can't see anything better getting floated in the next 3 and a bit years :|
I think it’ll be proposed again at some point in the future. In the same location, as that is the most logical location. It’ll just be spun as something else like Convention Centre expansion.

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[COM] Re: Memorial Drive upgrade

#692 Post by JCK98 » Thu Jul 07, 2022 1:29 pm

A-Town wrote:
Wed Jul 06, 2022 6:00 pm
rev wrote:
Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:07 pm
Jaymz wrote:
Mon Jul 04, 2022 7:49 pm
Well Marshall did propose a $600 million "basketball stadium", but the ppl voted. Can't see anything better getting floated in the next 3 and a bit years :|
Yeh well, there was also the vision for this stadium to be completely redeveloped, but you know, Mr Marshall didn't like that idea, he wanted to also spend half a billion on a stadium like Labor did so he can point to something and say "I did that".
There were plans, but I don't believe there was ever a vision to turn Memorial Drive into a 15k multipurpose arena to replace the ageing Entertainment Centre.
$150m for a 6,000 seat stadium that could host basketball and netball as well. Nevermind that basketball was regularly (at the time) getting bigger crowds in a suburban stadium surrounded by warehouses without proper public transport links.
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[COM] Re: Memorial Drive upgrade

#693 Post by gnrc_louis » Thu Jul 07, 2022 1:32 pm

I think a 10,000 seat tennis/bball/netball etc stadium here would’ve been ideal and surely cheaper than $600m. The riverbank proposal imo was flawed by relying on the presumption big global conferences will return to as they were pre-covid.

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#694 Post by NTRabbit » Fri Jul 08, 2022 5:26 pm

A-Town wrote:
Wed Jul 06, 2022 6:00 pm
rev wrote:
Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:07 pm
Jaymz wrote:
Mon Jul 04, 2022 7:49 pm
Well Marshall did propose a $600 million "basketball stadium", but the ppl voted. Can't see anything better getting floated in the next 3 and a bit years :|
Yeh well, there was also the vision for this stadium to be completely redeveloped, but you know, Mr Marshall didn't like that idea, he wanted to also spend half a billion on a stadium like Labor did so he can point to something and say "I did that".
There were plans, but I don't believe there was ever a vision to turn Memorial Drive into a 15k multipurpose arena to replace the ageing Entertainment Centre.
There was, it just wasn't a vision from the Liberal party, so as far as they were concerned it didn't exist.

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#695 Post by SRW » Fri Jul 08, 2022 7:23 pm

NTRabbit wrote:
Fri Jul 08, 2022 5:26 pm
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Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:07 pm


Yeh well, there was also the vision for this stadium to be completely redeveloped, but you know, Mr Marshall didn't like that idea, he wanted to also spend half a billion on a stadium like Labor did so he can point to something and say "I did that".
There were plans, but I don't believe there was ever a vision to turn Memorial Drive into a 15k multipurpose arena to replace the ageing Entertainment Centre.
There was, it just wasn't a vision from the Liberal party, so as far as they were concerned it didn't exist.
It was actually the Federal Libs who backed it.
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#696 Post by AndyWelsh » Sat Aug 27, 2022 12:43 pm

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#697 Post by gnrc_louis » Sat Aug 27, 2022 1:00 pm

This looks okay, but beyond tennis what other semi-regular events is it actually likely to attract? I wonder if there is any scope to expand it at a reasonable cost - maybe by raising the roof higher (it looks pretty low), better enclosing the arena and adding a few thousand more seats to get it up to around 9k. That way maybe it could host 36ers games and larger concerts.

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#698 Post by AndyWelsh » Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:11 pm

gnrc_louis wrote:This looks okay, but beyond tennis what other semi-regular events is it actually likely to attract? I wonder if there is any scope to expand it at a reasonable cost - maybe by raising the roof higher (it looks pretty low), better enclosing the arena and adding a few thousand more seats to get it up to around 9k. That way maybe it could host 36ers games and larger concerts.
Here’s what was proposed by the Premier at the time:

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#699 Post by Jaymz » Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:34 pm

gnrc_louis wrote:
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This looks okay, but beyond tennis what other semi-regular events is it actually likely to attract? I wonder if there is any scope to expand it at a reasonable cost - maybe by raising the roof higher (it looks pretty low), better enclosing the arena and adding a few thousand more seats to get it up to around 9k. That way maybe it could host 36ers games and larger concerts.

This is anecdotal, but I went to Gorillaz a month ago at the Entertainment Centre and I must say it was excellent. I was surprised at the condition of the venue, to me it's obvious they have spent money on the upkeep of the internals. The (free) tram to the door step is a big plus.

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#700 Post by ozisnowman » Fri Sep 02, 2022 5:03 pm

The eastern grandstand looks nicer outside than in - on the inside nothing more than a corporate box. They could have at least had some standard spectator
seating as well as some corporate boxes. The western grandstand is shown in the proposal pictures - is this supposed to be some temporary stand? as i dont see that this has been built only a new northern stand and an upgraded southern stand

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#701 Post by AndyWelsh » Mon Sep 19, 2022 10:16 pm

I hadn’t come across this site before:

https://thedriveadelaide.com.au/the-venue/

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#702 Post by Algernon » Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:11 am

50 million of taxpayer funds for a wedding venue :lol:

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#703 Post by ozisnowman » Tue Sep 20, 2022 3:51 pm

Looks like unfinished business - money probably ran out.

Missing a western grand stand (where court 1 is) and smaller eastern grand stand in-front of the courtside room and corporate boxes (where court 3 is)
This should be a centre court only with court 2 and 3 moved to outside courts at memorial drive.

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#704 Post by claybro » Tue Sep 20, 2022 4:48 pm

Algernon wrote:
Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:11 am
50 million of taxpayer funds for a wedding venue :lol:
Given the carry on in Adelaide over the multi purpose venue proposed by the previous government, this is as good as it is going to get for decades to come -so most got what they wished for. $50 million? Pocket money in any other state. But at least they're fixing the ambulance ramping eh?!

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#705 Post by gnrc_louis » Tue Sep 20, 2022 5:38 pm

claybro wrote:
Tue Sep 20, 2022 4:48 pm
Algernon wrote:
Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:11 am
50 million of taxpayer funds for a wedding venue :lol:
Given the carry on in Adelaide over the multi purpose venue proposed by the previous government, this is as good as it is going to get for decades to come -so most got what they wished for. $50 million? Pocket money in any other state. But at least they're fixing the ambulance ramping eh?!
It’s been said here before, but the “carry on” was reasonable considering the riverbank arena was only financially viable if international conferences returned post-Covid - which is a huge IF.

Again, as many have already said here - we would’ve preferred they redid memorial drive properly as a 8,000-10,000 seat multipurpose arena. Surely could’ve been done much more cheaply than the $600m earmarked for the riverbank arena too.

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