Arena Construction - Make pitch for ASG in 22/23. pg 95

brewbucks · Post #1561 » by **brewbucks** » Fri Oct 13, 2017 5:48 am

Drake or Kanye as the first concert act.

trwi7 · Post #1562 » by **trwi7** » Fri Oct 13, 2017 5:59 am

I don't really get the appeal of concerts so I don't give a single **** who the first one is.

trwi7 · Post #1563 » by **trwi7** » Fri Oct 13, 2017 6:29 am

Does anyone else find their interior cameras hilarious? They're mostly covered by scaffolding so you can't really see what's going on in there anyways, so why not move it down to the first level until the scaffolding is gone and then move it back up?

wapith · Post #1564 » by **wapith** » Fri Oct 13, 2017 11:00 am

trwi7 wrote:I don't really get the appeal of concerts so I don't give a single **** who the first one is.

With you on that sentiment. I only go if it's a top 1-3 band for me and it's local.

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TroyD92 · Post #1565 » by **TroyD92** » Fri Oct 13, 2017 11:45 am

I'd never go to a rap concert.

DanoMac · Post #1566 » by **DanoMac** » Fri Oct 13, 2017 6:47 pm

TroyD92 wrote:I'd never go to a rap concert.

Well damn. It's for sure not gonna be Jay-Z now after this bombshell.

TroyD92 · Post #1567 » by **TroyD92** » Sat Oct 14, 2017 1:11 am

DanoMac wrote:
TroyD92 wrote:I'd never go to a rap concert.

Well damn. It's for sure not gonna be Jay-Z now after this bombshell.

What my opinion isn't the deciding factor? Talk about an ego deflater

jakecronus8 · Post #1568 » by **jakecronus8** » Sat Oct 14, 2017 2:50 am

I like some rap music. It's great for working out. I've seen footage of rap "concerts". Couldn't pay me to go. 10 guys screaming into a mic incoherently over way too much bass. I'm good.

SupremeHustle · Post #1569 » by **SupremeHustle** » Sat Oct 14, 2017 2:57 am

The Roots. Best concert band ever. And it's *GASP!* Rap.

Aaron It Out · Post #1570 » by **Aaron It Out** » Sat Oct 14, 2017 3:00 am

Both the best and worst concerts I've been to have been rap. It can go both ways.

HaroldinGMinor · Post #1571 » by **HaroldinGMinor** » Sat Oct 14, 2017 3:02 am

I think Will Smith would be great. And he keeps it clean just the way the moms from Whitefish Bay like it.

MadBlueEdwards · Post #1572 » by **MadBlueEdwards** » Sat Oct 14, 2017 3:24 am

jakecronus8 wrote:I like some rap music. It's great for working out. I've seen footage of rap "concerts". Couldn't pay me to go. 10 guys screaming into a mic incoherently over way too much bass. I'm good.

I've been to a number of rap/hip-hop concerts and this has been my experience at very few of them. It happens, but there are so many artists that put on amazing live shows.

DanoMac · Post #1573 » by **DanoMac** » Sat Oct 14, 2017 3:47 am

Definitely depends who you're seeing. If you're going to see Young Gotti or 21 Savage (are these even real people? I'm so out of touch with mainstream) then yeah, there ya go.

Kendrick, Cole, Kanye, Drake, Jay-Z, Nas, Tribe all put on great shows, just to name a few.

VooDoo7 · Post #1574 » by **VooDoo7** » Sat Oct 14, 2017 4:09 am

Is Pac still touring? Now THAT'S rap!

FlagsFlyForever · Post #1575 » by **FlagsFlyForever** » Sat Oct 14, 2017 5:24 am

SupremeHustle wrote:The Roots. Best concert band ever. And it's *GASP!* Rap.

I've seen them live. Was really impressed with the one guy who basically jumped around the stage with a sousaphone for the entirety of the show.

brewbucks · Post #1576 » by **brewbucks** » Sat Oct 14, 2017 7:17 am

SupremeHustle wrote:The Roots. Best concert band ever. And it's *GASP!* Rap.

Black Thought one of the most underrated MC's ever

Post #1577 » by **MickeyDavis** » Sat Oct 14, 2017 12:02 pm

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Let's take the music discussion over to the music thread

Post #1578 » by **MickeyDavis** » Mon Oct 16, 2017 12:58 pm

From the JS

The Milwaukee Bucks arena's outdoor plaza and "Live Block" will be used up to 150 days a year, and attract city residents and suburbanites with a craft brewery, concerts and 3-on-3 basketball tourneys, team owners and executives say.

"I want to give people a reason to get out of their houses in the suburbs in the middle of the winter and drive downtown," Wes Edens, one of the Bucks' principal owners, said in a recent interview.

"I think there's a lot of reasons to want to do that and I want to give people a reason to live down here as well."

The Bucks are looking at a combination of ways to "activate" the plaza now under construction on what was N. 4th St. in front of the new arena. That plaza lies on the east side of the $524 million arena the team is building just north of the BMO Harris Bradley Center. Supported by $250 million in taxpayer money, the arena is scheduled to open in time for the 2018-'19 NBA season.

The plaza will be fronted by three buildings, one of which will include a brewery, team officials say. The complex will be connected by a beer garden to N. Old World 3rd St.

"This will become in many ways one of downtown Milwaukee's only outdoor rooms," said real estate developer Blair Williams, who is working for the Bucks on the entertainment district. "The goal here is for this to become a forum for Milwaukee."

The plaza can be configured to include a temporary outdoor stage for concerts for up to 12,000 people, Williams said last week in a speech to the Rotary Club of Milwaukee.

"That plaza really matters," Williams said. "That plaza is intended for heavy programming."

He said that in addition to the 55 to 65 Bucks and Marquette University Golden Eagles basketball games (depending on playoffs), the plaza will be used for many other events.

"We'll also have a similar number of program dates on the plaza," he said. "Roughly 150 days a year we will be programming the spaces and activating the environment."

The Bucks originally planned for the Live Block to be up and running when the arena opens a year from now. That timeline has slipped, and the size of at least one of the buildings — one that in earlier renderings showed a brewing tank — has been reduced from four to two stories.

The Bucks say they'll reveal details about the tenants, presumably including the brewery, in a couple of weeks.

Two of the Live Block buildings will be up and enclosed by the time the new arena opens, Williams predicted. The actual businesses will open much later.

"We should have most of the Live Block players — a substantial number of them — open when we go deep into the playoffs" for the 2018-'19 season, Williams said. That would be late in the spring of 2019.

The Bucks will have the plaza fired up long before then.

"If you can think of it, we have planned for it in the infrastructure and design of this plaza," Williams said.

"We have three-on-three basketball court layouts. We have futsal tournament layouts. We have viewing party layouts, we have ice skating rink layouts," he said, adding that farmers and craft markets are also in the works.

The ultimate plan, Bucks officials say, is to make the arena a day and night district of downtown. For that to happen, the team needs to attract a corporate tenant for the parcel it controls just north of the new arena.

"If you think long term, we'd like to have a balance of uses," said New York real estate executive Mike Fascitelli, another of the team's owners.

"Some entertainment, retail, we'd like to have residential — we've started on one," he said, referring to an apartment building underway next to a new parking garage north of the arena.

"And we'd like to have some corporate entity and ancillary retail — not like mall retail," Fascitelli said. "If you had that mix, it will fit well with the parking uses and with the traffic patterns. That's our goal."

Edens and Williams said that close attention is being paid to the plaza and Live Block. Edens said he was very involved in those plans.

crkone · Post #1579 » by **crkone** » Mon Oct 16, 2017 1:00 pm

My body is ready to be heavily disappointed in the brewery they've chosen.

FireStreetlifeNow · Post #1580 » by **FireStreetlifeNow** » Mon Oct 16, 2017 1:37 pm

crkone wrote:My body is ready to be heavily disappointed in the brewery they've chosen.

Same here. Given the high rent there, I can't see a good local craft brewery being in that spot. Maybe a larger regional one that is looking to expand but I can't really see that either. I'm guessing it might be a tied house where they might brew some beer there. I was hoping for something like a HopCat but I'm expecting a crappy national chain like Granite City.