NEW Neyland Renderings

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J C Higgins said:
The only problem I have with this is the height of the condo/hotel. I don't like it being taller than the top of the stadium. Looks out of place and too "industrial".
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Idk there's some stadiums that have buildings in the distance and it adds to the look so I'll just have to wait and see
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
It looks messy and overdeveloped! It completely kills the scenic "college town" appeal of that area and instead makes it look like a common modern pro sport venue! Plus, all that addition still doesnt fix the biggest issue with the outer part of the stadium, which is the ugly "erector set" scaffolding! I hate it!
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It seems like College Football is now a Pro Sport. I'm just waiting on a player's union/association to form to present demands.
 
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I love the conceptual pictures. This will really activate the waterfront fullying into the gameday experience. Really like the bridges between the waterfront and stadium. Calhouns is great however the whole area is under utlilized. There is a large change in elevation between the stadium and waterfront. This will fill in this area and hopefully tie in better back to the World's fair area and Cumberland. That area has really declined since the World's Fair.
 
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Voluble2 said:
Parking is a huge deal. It is a commuter school campus that has always been criminally short on parking spaces. Any development should increase student parking spaces, and not just provide new spaces needed for the development.
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Huge revenue stream from parking tickets
 
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SmokeyDaBear said:
I’m not trying to hate real hard here. I get that they want to generate more revenue. IMO A tasteful update of the area and the stadium would be great for half the cash, but this is why an average person can’t afford to take their kids to a game. Buying 4 tickets to the UT Chattanooga game is like $600. Because we created weird bar areas and special seating that’s empty when it’s a non-con game. It sucks for the average fan who gets to go to a couple games a year maybe and wants to take the family. I fear those days are over.
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“Don’t Nashville our Knoxville!”

The opportunists ruined a great city in 10 years. Only someone who hasn’t had to try to live a day to day life there would choose to try to recreate it. That’s what this on campus hotel symbols to me.
 
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SmokeyDaBear said:
I’m not trying to hate real hard here. I get that they want to generate more revenue. IMO A tasteful update of the area and the stadium would be great for half the cash, but this is why an average person can’t afford to take their kids to a game. Buying 4 tickets to the UT Chattanooga game is like $600. Because we created weird bar areas and special seating that’s empty when it’s a non-con game. It sucks for the average fan who gets to go to a couple games a year maybe and wants to take the family. I fear those days are over.
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Having just retired, they’ve already priced me out with the $500 a night hotel rooms and high ticket prices. This “entertainment district” is just another money grab. Whenever the G10 parking underneath is allowed again, those folks are really going to get stuck with a big bill if they want their space back.

The big screen and my easy chair are much better choices. Also don’t have to be subjected to parking nightmares, mile hikes and inconsiderate rubes in the stands who have gotten more plentiful over the years. The decision is easy for me. I ain’t making a 12 hour round trip drive for the privilege of all that joy when all the games are on TV. Sad situation for all of us that have supported the program for 40 to 50 years but it is what it is.
 
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Delmar said:
Having just retired, they’ve already priced me out with the $500 a night hotel rooms and high ticket prices. This “entertainment district” is just another money grab. Whenever the G10 parking underneath is allowed again, those folks are really going to get stuck with a big bill if they want their space back.

The big screen and my easy chair are much better choices. Also don’t have to be subjected to parking nightmares, mile hikes and inconsiderate rubes in the stands who have gotten more plentiful over the years. The decision is easy for me. I ain’t making a 12 hour round trip drive for the privilege of all that joy when all the games are on TV. Sad situation for all of us that have supported the program for 40 to 50 years but it is what it is.
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I went to 3 games in Neyland in 2021. Two non-conference nothings and then South Carolina. I had fun. It was great. I enjoyed my experience. I'm sure being at Alabama in 2022 would be something most people that went wouldn't trade for the world. But when I was watching Tennessee against Tennessee Tech in 2021, I thought "I'd rather be at home stretched out on my couch watching a couple top 25 matchups with a 12 pack I got for $18".
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
The grey hairs complaining of obscured views will just have to get over it. Cumberland Avenue is dead as a doornail economically, and there is no bringing it back. This is a great plan for revitalization. Let's just see how well it's executed.
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Hey! I resemble those remarks!

I was about to say that since they've all but eliminated The Strip, there's a niche to be filled for the game day experience. I'd love to see OCI, Copper Cellar, Sam & Andy's and The Last Lap be included in this new venture if just for nostalgic reasons and those steamed hoagies!
 
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zjcvols said:
I went to 3 games in Neyland in 2021. Two non-conference nothings and then South Carolina. I had fun. It was great. I enjoyed my experience. I'm sure being at Alabama in 2022 would be something most people that went wouldn't trade for the world. But when I was watching Tennessee against Tennessee Tech in 2021, I thought "I'd rather be at home stretched out on my couch watching a couple top 25 matchups with a 12 pack I got for $18".
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Oh I’ve enjoyed plenty of great experiences up there in person. They’ve just gotten fewer and fewer over the last 10 years due to the increased costs just like everything else. Got other places to put my disposable income. Like I said, it is what it is.
 
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Delmar said:
Oh I’ve enjoyed plenty of great experiences up there in person. They’ve just gotten fewer and fewer over the last 10 years due to the increased costs just like everything else. Got other places to put my disposable income. Like I said, it is what it is.
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The costs have become a noticeable pressure. Back before college football was a big time project for sports media, going to games was a pretty good value. I remember paying a decent chunk of change to see Tennessee Florida in 1999, on the 48 yard line, and it didn't break my back or anything. But now? It's obscene. Everyone who's managed to get involved wants their bags, and they're going to fill them up with whatever they can wring from people who are interested in attending the games.

Happens to anything that gets popular. You get the hangers on who don't really contribute materially to the experience, but manage to insert themselves into the process in one way or another - and then charge you to interact with them.
 
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Voltopia said:
It changed it, definitely, but at least the skyboxes were a part of the stadium proper. They're contained in the stadium. This is a private commercial entity, and it'll be a permanent eyesore as JC Higgins wrote above, and from the renders it'll be almost as tall as the top of the skyboxes. It's one step removed from having a giant advertising billboard in the same place. And I get that some people don't care - not saying you do or don't, but some - but having a hotel / apartment complex attached to the stadium (or anything that's commercial or private) will permanently change both the vibe of the stadium and what gameday means at Tennessee. And it'll be a permanent, visible change. Neyland will feel more and more like a Las Vegas casino/hotel. That probably tickles some folks just fine. I figured that out ages ago. I don't harbor any illusions about how college athletics got here, or where it's going to end up.
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Maybe... just maybe, someone should figure out how to build "out" instead of "up". Although it's cheaper to build up, saving the iconic view of the Smokies from the South endzone may be more important. It REALLY shouldn't be that hard to change the design to be; at minimum, no taller than the stadium itself.
 
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jeff1vol said:
Maybe... just maybe, someone should figure out how to build "out" instead of "up". Although it's cheaper to build up, saving the iconic view of the Smokies from the South endzone may be more important.
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Oh absolutely. If they had built the hotel _out_, I suppose it would be okay. Still weird, like a Disney complex, but at least it'd be out of sight.

But you and I - and everyone else - knows they wouldn't build it unless they could have their little special viewing angle to sell to people with money. The people in charge of this thing don't believe or care about sharing the experience with everyone else. There's nothing to protect. Nothing to keep pretty. Only things to sell. They just want to own it, and they want to sell it. The rest be damned.

It's like I said earlier. They're they sort who would build buildings stall enough to surround the whole endzone, and if you complained, they'd just say "but this is so much better" while they count their money -- and raise your ticket prices.
 
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Voltopia said:
It's like I said earlier. They're they sort who would build buildings stall enough to surround the whole endzone, and if you complained, they'd just say "but this is so much better" while they count their money -- and rasie your ticket prices.
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I would actually prefer them to encompass the whole back end zone (behind stadium) with new structure, topped with a large walk space w/ river view at back of upper deck bleacher height. Make the exterior look exactly like the outside of Neyland, with brick arches. Put retail on the ground level. Hotel or classrooms above w/ river view. Concessions and club level hangout entering into the stadium in between.

Also add a large arched stadium entrance, aligned with center of stadium. Something like that wouldn’t look like development. It would come off as a beautiful stadium upgrade.

I just don’t like this eyesore out in no man’s land. It doesn’t fit the university scene at all. The rendering looks like they’re trying to create a new strip, only it takes away the best view of the stadium, and it resembles an airport terminal rather than a vibrant community.
 
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TAF said:


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Good story on the front page of today's News Sentinel about the proposed hotel/condo complex that will look into Neyland Stadium and how the athletic department already has an all star conceptual design team assembled.
 
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zjcvols said:
Post #248 to Danny White to please make the exterior of TBA looking like something other than a out of date warehouse
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That and the erector set look on the outside of Neyland are what make me laugh when people say the new development won't fit in aesthetically.
 
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#119
I find myself surprised at such focus on aesthetics.

This "potential" development should be exciting to anyone who wants the campus to have a vibrant entertainment district. Not just for game days, but year round. It can't help but make the University of Tennessee more appealing to prospective students (including athletes).
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
I find myself surprised at such focus on aesthetics.

This "potential" development should be exciting to anyone who wants the campus to have a vibrant entertainment district. Not just for game days, but year round. It can't help but make the University of Tennessee more appealing to prospective students (including athletes).
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It did have one, the strip. Although I wouldn’t call it vibrant. Seedy back in my days, mid-late 80’s. But I loved The Library and Last Lap.
 
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tomq_123 said:
It did have one, the strip. Although I wouldn’t call it vibrant. Seedy back in my days, mid-late 80’s. But I loved The Library and Last Lap.
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I am 50 years old. Born and raised in west Knoxville. I was an undergraduate student at UTK from 1992-1996. I know what Cumberland Avenue used to be ..... Those days are long gone.
 
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