The guys discuss where a new arena could get built if a new Boston Celtics owner wants a new arena. Thumbnail photo courtesy of Brian Fluharty of USA Today Network.
The TD Garden is just 29 years old. It's completely unnecessary to build a new arena, especially if public funding is used even for infrastructure. The old Boston Garden lasted 67 years.
You're not wrong, but this is coming up because the Celtics pay rent to play there and the assumption is that whoever buys the team will build a basketball arena. It makes sense especially to build it down at SeaPort.
You can’t beat The TD Garden location imo. There’s nothing better going over The Zakim Bridge and seeing the garden on the right. Not to mention North Station and a short walk to The North End for the best food in the city. There couldn’t be a better spot for The Gahdan! Leave it alone, it’s a newer building 🤷🏻♂️
Those billionaire's bring in a lot of money for the city and contribute to the credibility. Why do you think Green Bay, Sacramento, and Jacksonville are relevant cities?
its going to take 10 years for them to pick a location and build it lol, what do you want them to talk about instead? they have 4 hours to fill every day
Seems like they are talking about it on other stations such a WEEI also, and 35 is about 10 years from now so as previous reply says if it were to happen things would get put in motion very soon most likely
Public transport to Celtics game would take a huge stepback. The silver line that goes into Seaport is in now way capable of handling the kind of congestion that Celtics games would bring to the area.
@@Random-Stranger it actually is capable, you’d have to send a lot of extra silver line buses, much like when they send extra green line trolleys when the red sox let out. Also, the mbta ferry goes right by there, they would have make a stop there for those going to the south shore as well.
@@Daniel_Capital > extra silver line buses 😬😬😬 man, that's gonna be a huge clusterfuck on those already busy Seaport roads. I think any discussion about putting a new stadium in the Seaport area should absolutely include the addition of a rapid transit development. Even with the extra trolleys for Celtics games, the greenline is barely able to keep up with the rider surge running every 10-15 minutes. I just don't think extra silver line buses is a viable solution - it's just going to congest that area even more. Find a way to convert the silverline buses to rail coming from south station, hell, even above ground mono would be serviceable if it's able to run every 10 minutes.
@@Random-Stranger Actually brother, the silver line to south station from there is all tunnel, zero traffic or streets! What happens is you walk to World Trade Center Station (Or Courthouse) and it's a subway tunnel of just the buses. So you have the buses all lined up there waiting. So yeah, traffic is 100% a non issue, it's a tunnel straight to south station!
I was thinking the exact same thing. I was at Bayside between 05 and 07 when it was used for Spooky world and they dissolved our contract so they could develop it for who knows what, but nothing ever went in there til 2020 with the new biotech facility they built
Boylston shoutout! Just cool to hear from Felger, back when Kraft was looking to build the new Gillette, they had some serious talks about putting it behind the gas station Dipilato's.
I'm not big on the idea of moving them but in terms of the car equation suburbs people are smarter than we think. We used to take the commuter rail or drive to the orange line to take the subway into the city. You can do the same at Braintree and the red line or one of the green line zones out west.
Don't know Boston that well so hard to comment but getting rid of a working drydock/shipyard and/or a railyard to build a basketball arena seems kind of short sighted. After all, the food you eat, and the toys you buy etc. have to get from here to there somehow. Sounds like something a politician would do though and make daily living more expensive even for those who don't give a hoot about professional sports.
They are going to buy the team and then spend 2-3 billion on a privately financed new arena? The city / state sure isn't going to finance it. If anything the city/state will demand a couple hundred million in giveaways to allow the building to occur under the "air rights"
@@dionreed7325 the land for the Nat gas distribution is being bought by them along with the sand and gravel place. All in all it is close to 100 acres so there is certainly more than enough land. The plan is to have a similar entertainment, bar, restaurant, housing and shopping similar to Suffolk downs and Assembly row. Everett is up and coming. I own 2 rental properties over there. I bought one pre casino(a small single family that I used to live in) and the three family in 2019. Once the develop the water front they are going to skyrocket in value again like they did when the casino went in.
Not one dime of tax payers money should go to building any building for the Celtics. If you can own the Celtics you can afford to build your own building. No
With the mayor we have now who knows. They’re spending so much damn money. Definitely need a new mayor. I had high hopes for her, but man she spends money on the most ridiculous stuff
How do people listen to these guys? They’re on the air for 4 hours a day and this is their best clip? I’d rather go to the day room at a nursing home and hear them complain about soup.
Look at what the Clippers are building. The Intuit Dome should be the blueprint. Expand it a bit to facilitate both NBA and NHL. Both the Bruins and Celtics need a world class facility that's more than a blue collar type arena design.
I grew up in Lawrence, lived 10 minutes away from the Oracle in Oakland where the Warriors used to play, and now live in LA. I can tell you that the Clippers built in a terrible area. The Rams have their stadium close by, and the Forum is still used for concerts. LAX is also there and all that traffic will come together. The building looks cool, but the area is congested as is. Once the Clippers start playing there, it will be terrible!
@@caewrld3796the point of building a new stadium isn't that TD is out of date (which it is) it's that the Bruins own the arena... Which means if someone bought the Celtics it's harder to make money because a lot of the money for concessions and tickets go to the Bruins ownership, not the Celtics.
Definitlely not ideal, but it's a walk from South Station, they have the Silver Line already and commuter boats could be added coming in by the harbor. But it certainly would be more difficult to get to coming into the city from north.
There’s not enough land there, that area has been talked about as a location for a fire station for the seaport area,there’s already plans developed. And then again don’t forget according to the environmentalist it would have to be built on stilts do to the rising tides.
