New Arena (formerly Prairie Surf)

[Urbanized]

Lol

[floyd the barber]

It won’t be nameless. It can be Oklahoma City arena on Oklahoma City Blvd.

Or we can call it the Ford Center. It’ll be like a star player signing a one day contract to retire as a member of his former team.

We can name it Ford Field. I'm sure Detroit will be ok with it.

[PhiAlpha]

We can name it Ford Field. I'm sure Detroit will be ok with it.

There’s been a field in there! That’s not inaccurate!

[bombermwc]

I wonder if the naming rights deal gives the ability to name the court? I personally hate it, but we have that all over the place with football stadiums in HS and College. Owen Field at Memorial Stadium, for example.

There are a few courts out there in the NBA too. No one gives a crap about the name of the court, but it is an easy way to slap a name on something and collect some money. You can sponsor everything in an arena. Slap a name on each level....the Loves Concourse, Continental Mezzanine. Devon Suite Level. Toby's I Love This Bathroom. I joke, but only so far. They really could sell everything....as long as there's a demand for it and they collect a meaningful amount from it.

The crap would be, who gets it. If the team gets it and the city doesn't get anything from it, then I dont think that would be fair since we're footing the bill for the building. Not like we're going to get money back to taxpayers, but those kinds of sponsorships can create "designated funds" to help maintain the place. Keep TVs updated as they go out, replace light bulbs/fixtures, etc.

[Laramie]

Have no problem with 'naming the court.' Give prompts to Oklahoma State Gallagher Hall to Gallagher-Iba Arena and naming the court 'Eddie Sutton Court.' There are so many high profile people who deserve recognition as well as donors like T-Bone Pickens as Lewis Field was renamed Bone Pickens Stadium. Pickens' donations of more than $165 million allowed OSU thru the foundation to upgrade many on campus facilities not limited to sports venues.

Same here in OKC, with the Paycom Center, if you want to give name recognition to donors, players and civic leaders of the All Sports Association by naming the court or keeping memorabilia like OK89 or paying tribute to high profile people like Bennett, McClendon, Norick, Cornett, Holt and Richison with the construction of the new arena.

[Dob Hooligan]

Have no problem with 'naming the court.' Give prompts to Oklahoma State Gallagher Hall to Gallagher-Iba Arena and naming the court 'Eddie Sutton Court.' There are so many high profile people who deserve recognition as well as donors like T-Bone Pickens as Lewis Field was renamed Bone Pickens Stadium. Pickens' donations of more than $165 million allowed OSU thru the foundation to upgrade many on campus facilities not limited to sports venues.

Same here in OKC, with the Paycom Center, if you want to give name recognition to donors, players and civic leaders of the All Sports Association by naming the court or keeping memorabilia like OK89 or paying tribute to high profile people like Bennett, McClendon, Norick, Cornett, Holt and Richison with the construction of the new arena.

I'm guessing the Thunder control all naming and sponsorship rights throughout the building via their lease agreement.

[Laramie]

[bison34]

Well that sounds...meh.

[floyd the barber]

$900 million?

I thought it was more than that!

Well as long as it doesn't look like a miniature Allegiant Stadium. Good God that looks like $&%!.

[bison34]

$900 million?

I thought it was more than that!

Well as long as it doesn't look like a miniature Allegiant Stadium. Good God that looks like $&%!.

$900 million is the baseline. You base the budget off that, not the fact collections are likely to be over $900 million (because if they aren't, then people here and TLO would be all over them for over-budgeting).

[Pete]

They've already adjusted the budget upward to $976 million in just sales tax, then another $75 MM from MAPS 4 and $50 million from the owners. That's over $1.1 billion right there.

Based on previous increases in expected sales tax for MAPS, I've estimated we'll have at least $1.2 B and likely more.

[Laramie]

Just want to see this signature design David Manica referenced.

[Laramie]

Just want to see this signature design and it will probably include a Halo Board.

[Urbanized]

There have been mixed reviews on the halo board. It fairly dominates the space and borders on distracting, according to people who have seen it in person during game play.

[floyd the barber]

There have been mixed reviews on the halo board. It fairly dominates the space and borders on distracting, according to people who have seen it in person during game play.

New doesn't always mean better.

[Urbanized]

Same with bigger.

[unfundedrick]

There have been mixed reviews on the halo board. It fairly dominates the space and borders on distracting, according to people who have seen it in person during game play.

That reminds me of AT&T Stadium. The video board dominates so much that it definitely distracts from watching what is happening on the field.

[dankrutka]

There have been mixed reviews on the halo board. It fairly dominates the space and borders on distracting, according to people who have seen it in person during game play.

I think I mentioned it on this thread, but I went to Thunder @ Clippers at the Inuit Dome and thought the Halo was completely unnecessary. It didn’t improve the experience IMHO.

[BoulderSooner]

There have been mixed reviews on the halo board. It fairly dominates the space and borders on distracting, according to people who have seen it in person during game play.

I think the reality is that teams have to compete with the 75 inch big screen at home .. and this is something that does that .. it makes going to games and sitting in the upper deck a better experience then sitting at home

[Laramie]

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/entxuncutt/p/DBcVkAkPMsH/

The placeholder reminds me of Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum. Mayor Holt took a group to Milwaukee on April 24-26, 2022; again, just a placeholder.

[Pete]

Demolition bids are due in a week, so we should start to see some real action not long thereafter.

This is going to be very fun to track for the next 4 years.

[mugofbeer]

Demolition bids are due in a week, so we should start to see some real action not long thereafter.

This is going to be very fun to track for the next 4 years.

I wonder if they plan to recycle much of that old material? I would hope they do.

[Paseofreak]

If Midwest Wrecking wins they will. Midwest has their ducks in a row with segregating materials for recycling and minimizing disposal costs.

[Pete]

Pretty sure any decent wrecking company recycles as much as possible.

You can see almost every time I post a demo photo, they are separating out materials before hauling them off.

[jn1780]

There's a lot of money in that scrap metal so that will almost always get recycle even if they weren't necessarily doing it for environmental reasons.