is the land where the Cathedral is. Talk about centrally located. Place is a dump anyways. Just bulldoze the old place and use all of that stone to build Pitt Stadium 2.0.
Look. Clearly the best stadium location...
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I mean seriously. Who wants to sit in there? A lot of the seats in the Cathedral don't even have padding. Plus people could park at Soldiers and Sailors or the Carnegie garage. Building is almost 100 years old anyways.
not enough parking and the traffic, oh God, could you imagine. Any location has to have at least 3 major highways within a quarter of a mile or Pittsburghers will have to wait in traffic, could you imagine the horror?
And students could look out their windows from Towers and watch the game, and we can count those in the attendance figures.
I thought we were moving the undergrad campus to Johnstown anyway?
you joke but I feel very strongly that the VA should be relocated to a much more accessible location. for a facility that has a very large number of outpatient services, to put that in Oakland, is beyond idiotic.. I wasn't around in the late 40s, maybe it made sense at the time. Hindsight being 20/20 I get but damn if that wasn't a bad decision.
It won't be...ever. Not unless Presby and the med school shut down. Or the VA system itself is radically altered.
Oh man I wasn't even talking about the VA. I was talking about UPMC Presbyterian. We're building a YUUUGE stadium.
Paco, is the VA hospital greatly intertwined with Presby and Pitt's med school? I honestly have no clue.. My point was mainly just based on accessibility. Simple way to look at it im sure. And of course this was in late 40's so infrastructure has changed a bit im sure..
The easy solution is to buy and bulldoze Carlow. We could give them the Titusville campus. Even swap. That project can't cost more than a couple hundred bucks, right?
How about adding a dome onto the cathedral where the cathedral lawn is? Have the same type of architecture and all. Tear down Heinz Chapel/buildings on Bellefield if needbe!
moving 2200 students isn't that hard.. Shammie Nation not pleased. Joking aside, if this was a priority, land along the river could have been bought a long time ago. use some political influence to acquire that almono land, you know that land that was bought 15 years ago, that has gone undeveloped since Johnny Majors was our coach, losing by 70 to the buckeyes.. tell em time is up, we are taking over this land, the city doesn't need any more baby gaps, Wilson leather stores or Bar louies and your over priced condos wont sell.. Thanks but we own this now..
The city will still prosper without another unused amphitheatre and a fountain that is empy because homeless people used it to bathe in..
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No need to buy it. Just send George Aston over to give them an ultimatum. They'll clear out of there in no time.
Legally, no. Intertwined, yes. Pitt med faculty practice in it. The most advance clinical services in the region are right next door. The entire reason it is at that location is because Pitt gave the VA the land (the original Trees Field) to build there in the late 1940s in an effort to build up the medical center (Pitt also gave Presby its land to get it to move to Oakland from the Northside). There are similarly located VA hospitals adjacent to other academic medical centers as well (as in Miami). The VA just spent a buttload on that campus as well. It isn't going anywhere.
While we are at it, Let's just arm the students, grab a few drug dealers and stage a coup on CMU. Now we've increased our campus size and gained a golf course.
Love when paco dismisses my plans for Oakland stadiums with factual, insightful information. Thanks Paco. I will switch my energies from one fantasy to another with believing pitt will be using force and violence to take hazelwood back from RIDC for a waterfront stadium..
I was thinking more of a Transformers-style retractable stadium that just pops up from the ground and unfolds every Saturday.
Schenley Park would be a great location, Bob O’Connor Golf Course is the worst. Hate playing that dive course.
I'm going to start making appearances at events with a cardboard cutout of this proposed stadium design - drawn by my 9 year old. Couldn't be much worse than www.newpittstadium.com
Realistically, what would it costs in bribes to have Schenley Park acquired through eminent domain? No demolition and lots of tailgating space.
Good to see the Nerdy and Steveee Ball Washer, lack of vision crew out in full force.
You forgot one thing: "Trump will never win !" Dumbocrats Rule !! ( Well, not so much anymore )
But where would people who want to golf with no shirt on go?
We don't have enough Eyetalians on the board of trustees.
I hope it includes lots of glitter. Glitter sells ideas.
What about the area of Craft ave, Lawn & Ophelia st? I would love to see that shit section gone with a new 60K stadium.
Blvd to Lawn from Hamlet to Niagara would probably be big enough for 50k real stadium. Probably way too many residences to seriously consider though, and there is the big dip near Lawn/Hamlet that would need filled properly to build a stadium on.
I have been pushing for the subterranean stadium plan the last couple of years. No need to bulldoze it- just dig under it.
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Dig a 42 story hole.
Place the cathedral in the hole.
Build the stadium on top of the hole so when we turn on the victory lights they shine up through the mid-field logo.
Place the cathedral in the hole.
Build the stadium on top of the hole so when we turn on the victory lights they shine up through the mid-field logo.
Just impressed he could take Tom jurich's victory dong out of his mouf long enough to type.
Directly under panther hollow bridge then people could drop eggs and vegetables on the playing field from the bridge during games
This thread is a winner. We have some serious problem solvers on here.
BTW VA hospitals are co-located with academic medical centers in many cities. The med school faculty staffs the hospital and in return the med school can train their students and residents there. VA hospitals are great places to train as students or residents. The Pittsburgh VA is a tremendous place for clinical rotations.
BTW VA hospitals are co-located with academic medical centers in many cities. The med school faculty staffs the hospital and in return the med school can train their students and residents there. VA hospitals are great places to train as students or residents. The Pittsburgh VA is a tremendous place for clinical rotations.
I think it was JoseLind13 who had the best plan of the field hovering over the Parkway East and the floating tailgate barge on the Mon. Jose...drop your "artist's rendering" again.
That thing was masterpiece. Didn't it include a giant Wanny Statue too?
Make South Oakland Great Again!
That thing was masterpiece. Didn't it include a giant Wanny Statue too?
Make South Oakland Great Again!
I was talking to Franco Harris. He said that he and a few rich friends from college would pay for a new football stadium for PITT football if we agreed to name it the "Joseph Vincent Paterno Memorial Stadium" and if boys without fathers under the age of 16 get in free.
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But didn't you "start" by posting a reply in the first place.
May not be dumb, but it is certainly stupid.
