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If you consider downtown Atlanta the heart of the city, getting better but still on life support. Yes I would have rather had the stadiums in CC but I enjoy sports and will take CC Philly over downtown Atlanta everyday of the week. Great part is I can walk two blocks get on the subway and then walk 2 minutes to the stadiums and return, and when i get back I am in the middle of a great downtown, off task, either way I will take the Philly sport environment over Atlanta as well, way better sports town and sports fans. But we can agree to disagree
LOL! On life support? Really?
I guess we should all aspire to having police precincts in the stadiums, with a nice little flash-mob scene after the game for added flavor.
I guess we should all aspire to having police precincts in the stadiums, with a nice little flash-mob scene after the game for added flavor.
Bragging rights, indeed.
Well a stadium next to highways (baseball), football stadium next to CNN (that area looks like a suburban office park and think the barren coke-land or whatever is there too), just saying the stadiums in downtown Atlanta dont really feel like they are in the middle of anything, you could say the same about Philly, a great sports complex maybe not location
Maybe uptown Atlanta, seems to be getting much better, seriously, have enjoyed that area recently but downtown Atlanta, come on, that area still needs much work to feel like a place people want to do anything but work, commute to or visit an aquarium.
But again i am off task, and I would actually take the Linc and Citizens bank over the two Atlanta stadiums purely on the basis of stadiums as well, a vast improvement over the Vet, likely the worst sports stadium ever built
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I'm quite sure that more than a few New Yorkers are embarrassed that MSG is their signature arena. I know I would be. The city deserves much, much better.
That goes for Penn Station too. I consider that to be the ultimate dump of a train station. The fact that they tore down the original is a crime, imo.
No, we're not embarrassed over having the "most famous arena"
Nobody likes shlepping across parking lots, it is certainly not unique to Atlanta.
At least Atlanta has all of it's facilities in the heart of the City, not out in the middle of barren parking lots away from everything.
Wouldn't you put Turner field in the same category as the Philadelphia stadiums in terms of "barren" and "in the middle of parking lots"? I think most would...
Wouldn't you put Turner field in the same category as the Philadelphia stadiums in terms of "barren" and "in the middle of parking lots"? I think most would...
Sort of, but it isn't nearly as remote as the Philly venues.
I have walked to it from the Georgia State train station more times than I can count, so it really isn't that bad.
I just wish the regonfiguration after the Olympics had been reversed to the opposite end of the field. That would have brought the park about 2 blocks closer to Downtown than it is.
And NYC has Penn station and multiple subway lines under MSG...big deal. A lot of cities do.
It's a "neat" feature in a city that has little to no adequate public transpiration. Boston Garden is the same way, with 4 commuter rail lines and three subway lines located underneath. It's the sort of thing that just makes sense. An interesting topic might be "what sports facilities do not require a car for fan access?"
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