So, tonight the Orlando Magic won the eastern conference play offs and are now going on to play the Lakers to see who the best professional basketball team in north america is. This has brought alot of publicity to our city but has the publicity and hype of our local basketball team finally doing well after over ten years of nobody cares to justify funding a new arena? I have watched a good amount of the playoff games and it seemed as if our current amway arena does the job. The other night i was riding around and wondered by this mess. I have been told that this is our new arena for the magic to play inside of. This does not look bigger than our current arena... it, in fact, looks smaller. If you travel 1/4 of a mile in one direction of this site you hit the booming downtown orlando area with bars and small venues as far as the eye can see. but, if you travel 1/4 mile in the opposite direction you hit a neighborhood that looks like it could use orlandos money in a more useful way. I strongly agree with anyone who feels that a new place for the Orlando Magic to play is an extreme waste of Orlando's money.
that and the arts center (the main reason the funding passed) is no longer going to be built.
ReplyDeletealso looks like parking will be a nightmare in that location...