Intrust Bank Arena tour on KSN

[ShockerFever]

lilshock, it's time to crawl back to your CAVE again.

[wsushox1]

Nothin' like stone cold facts.

[Aargh]

Yes, there will be a shuttle service. Yesterday I spent a couple hours looking over the 269 page parking report and master plan for downtown Wichita and for Intrust Bank Arena. It is very thorough and I am sure it will be executed correctly.

I admire your glass-half-full approach to local government and the city and county's ability to execute a plan. I'm afraid my fingers would either freeze in place or fall completely off if I attempted to type that - especially the "executed correctly" part.

[1979Shocker]

Intrust Bank Arena lands state wrestling tournaments

WICHITA - The Class 6A and 5A wrestling tournaments are headed for the new Intrust Bank Arena in February 2010.

[Snapshot9]

2 things loom in my mind considering the arena:

1) Parking, will we have to hunt and not find parking spots right away, therefore, many cars driving around and around searching for parking before events, making parking a hassle to deal with.

2) Will the corners of the arena be like Koch Arena, giving it a 'bowl effect' or will they be more like a rectangle, decreasing the 'bowl effect'. To me, the bowl effect greatly inctreases the atmosphere, and makes the arena louder, and more fun for us.

3) A third concern, is the overall inside look the arena will have.

[Anthony2]

I think people who are obsessed with parking have never been to an event outside of Wichita. No matter the venue and no matter the city, there are going to be some delays and some inconvenience when many people attend one event. It is part of the deal. Parking will be available. Some people may have to walk a few blocks. Some people will learn to arrive 15 minutes earlier than usual. But it will work. Good events will draw big crowds to the arena.

[wsushox1]

I admire your glass-half-full approach to local government and the city and county's ability to execute a plan. I'm afraid my fingers would either freeze in place or fall completely off if I attempted to type that - especially the "executed correctly" part.

First of all let me stress the shuttle system may only need to be executed once every 2-3 years. It is not like this would need to happen everyday.


Its not my government. I live in El Dorado which doesn't have the best government itself, so I could really care less about the elections or leaders in Wichita. However I am very impressed with the job Ron Holt has done with the arena. I am sure he will continue to do an excellent job The parking plan pretty much spells out word for word what would need to happen. It would seem to me that a two year old could just follow those directions, but I guess we are talking about Wichita.

[SpanglerFan316]

I think people who are obsessed with parking have never been to an event outside of Wichita. No matter the venue and no matter the city, there are going to be some delays and some inconvenience when many people attend one event. It is part of the deal. Parking will be available. Some people may have to walk a few blocks. Some people will learn to arrive 15 minutes earlier than usual. But it will work. Good events will draw big crowds to the arena.

I agree. I've attended events in San Francisco, Phoenix and elsewhere. For San Fran, I parked my car in one of the East Bay towns (Fremont?) and took BART to get into the city; this was certainly longer than a shuttle ride but it was easy. Every town is different but people manage. Boulder was more of a pain than SF. I've heard that Lincoln is "impossible" when the Corn are playing football but people manage. LSU is said to be terrible for football but I talked to a LSU fan who said it wasn't that bad. Get out of Wichita and experience the world.

[ShockerFever]

I think people who are obsessed with parking have never been to an event outside of Wichita. No matter the venue and no matter the city, there are going to be some delays and some inconvenience when many people attend one event. It is part of the deal. Parking will be available. Some people may have to walk a few blocks. Some people will learn to arrive 15 minutes earlier than usual. But it will work. Good events will draw big crowds to the arena.

Exactly.

A lot of these people in this town have no idea what's going on because they've never gone a mile outside of it.

[wsushox1]

2 things loom in my mind considering the arena:

1) Parking, will we have to hunt and not find parking spots right away, therefore, many cars driving around and around searching for parking before events, making parking a hassle to deal with.

2) Will the corners of the arena be like Koch Arena, giving it a 'bowl effect' or will they be more like a rectangle, decreasing the 'bowl effect'. To me, the bowl effect greatly inctreases the atmosphere, and makes the arena louder, and more fun for us.

3) A third concern, is the overall inside look the arena will have.

If you were to look at the video you would see what the inside will look like. On the north side of the arena it will be more brick and darker colors to keep in theme of the whole Old Town theme. On the south it will be more modern and open. The arena is not really a true "Bowl" like Koch Arena because INtrust Arena has a hockey floor. The corners will be bowl shaped it looks like.

[Dan]

parking should be easy:

go to old town or somewhere nearby for dinner and/or drinks before the event. Walk to the event from said venue. Is this possible with the location of the arena (I don't live in ICT so I don't know exactly where it is).

[Awesome Sauce Malone]

parking should be easy:

go to old town or somewhere nearby for dinner and/or drinks before the event. Walk to the event from said venue. Is this possible with the location of the arena (I don't live in ICT so I don't know exactly where it is).

Depending on where you want go it can be a nice little walk. But essentially a great idea.

But alas your suggestion is completely sensible which means someone will ***** and complain about it because it doesnt please their lazy ass.

[SpanglerFan316]

parking should be easy:

go to old town or somewhere nearby for dinner and/or drinks before the event. Walk to the event from said venue. Is this possible with the location of the arena (I don't live in ICT so I don't know exactly where it is).

Have an early dinner and brew at River City Brewery and then walk 3 (?) blocks to the Arena.

Go to the Germany restaurant near the Old Town Warren for dinner and then walk 5-6 blocks to the Arena. (Or go watch an early movie at the Old Town Warren and then walk to the Arena; let your gal pick the movie and you get props for a nice evening and a sporting event.)

If you want a very good and inexpensive meal followed by a longer walk, go to the Wichita Fish Company on Douglas and then walk to the Arena; my guess is that the walk is about a mile and, on a nice day, this would be fun.

Go to one of the clubs on/near Douglas, listen to some music, get in the mood for a good game and walk to the Arena.

Eat at home and ask the butler to drop you off at the entrance to the Arena.

[wsushox1]

There was a story on the arena again tonight on KSN. Talked about financing and gave more views of the inside. Link will be coming!

[1979Shocker]

There was a story on the arena again tonight on KSN. Talked about financing and gave more views of the inside. Link will be coming!

I saw that. Chris Presson, the GM of SMG Management, which will run the arena, said that there is plenty of parking down there.