New York State has accepted proposals to redevelop Belmont Park, the third of the New York Racing Association's venues, and turn it into an entertainment destination, with a new on-site arena for pro sports (the Islanders and New York City F.C. are among the bidders) and concerts.
According to the CenturyLink Center's Web site, the arena can hold 18,300 people.
Whatever happens to the site, the arena "will be torn down.
Immediately the Olympians and Paralympians have departed, construction workers will return once again to the east London site whose arenas, pools and podiums have become so familiar to so many television viewers across the globe.
Many, if not all, sports sites — stadiums, arenas, ballparks — give rise to the classic bar.
As the migration of professional athletes who open their personal lives via networking sites grows, Arenas has headed the other way.
Instead of basing itself in one building, the theatre, under the directorship of the gifted Vicky Featherstone, will be a nomadic commissioning body which will take theatre all over Scotland, setting itself up on established stages and in less conventional site-specific arenas (forests and car parks as well as sports halls, according to Featherstone).
I can't help adding that while public officials went so far as to exercise eminent domain to clear the Barclays site for the arena, pushing out mixed-income tenants and a homeless shelter, these same officials (I speak from firsthand experience) greet any hypothetical question about eminent domain and the Garden like kryptonite.
Also, redeveloping the arena site at the Meadowlands offered an opportunity to lure a developer away from an ecologically sensitive site nearby.
"We take Deron for his word," Johnson said during his first arena site tour.
Some of that money was spent buying land near the arena site.
