Last week we put out the question of whether it might be worth looking into building a brand new arena in New Brunswick, as opposed to focusing everything on revamping the RAC. One of our readers must have really been excited about that possibility and Tweeted directly with DEVCO's president, Rutgers grad Christopher Paladino:
@DEVCONB thank you for the great Rutgers / New Brunswick updates! Any chance for a downtown NB arena in the future?
— Jim (@BroncKnight) July 17, 2014
And DEVCO responded, referencing that original 2007 discussion about such an arena:
@BroncKnight @DEVCONB Tough economics today a first class building would be at least 190 million . Climate was bettet 7 years ago
— Christopher Paladino (@DEVCONB) July 17, 2014
Hmmm. That, to me, doesn't look like DEVCO sees this as an immediate opportunity.
So, as I was saying, we really need to expand and develop the RAC.
And an athletes' village. And the baseball/softball complex. And the track and field hockey complex. And....