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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
That would do what the rest of the year? Who's going to fund it? Who's going to give up land for it? Who's going to build the infrastructure around it that's needed to support it?
Arenas and convention centers are MASSIVE undertakings. And local governments don't approve them unless they can see them being beneficial to the local community and cost effective. The degres of this undertaking is truly something well beyond what FIRST has ever done.
They would need to find other tenants to share the venue with, design a venue that suits the needs of FIRST programs going forward but is still appealing for other uses, and find a location with the kind of infrastructure to support an FIRST Championship for a long, long time.
And then you ask them to do it in two or three different locations?
It sure is a nifty idea, but it's one that's completely beyond the scope of possibility for this program at this point in time.
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Agreed. If the Minnesota Vikings, who offered to put down $300 million dollars to pay for a stadium, which would result in millions of dollars of revenue for the city and state (unlike a FIRST stadium), can't get enough tax payer support, there is no way FIRST will be able to get funding for a stadium, let along 2 or 3.