Aud would be ideal spot for youth sports center

[WNYresident]

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Aud would be ideal spot for youth sports center

9/24/2006

Putting Bass Pro into Memorial Auditorium is like trying to put a size 10 foot in a size 8 shoe. There will not be enough parking, there is no easy access to the water and it will conflict with everything else going on downtown. Bass Pro belongs on Fuhrmann Boulevard, where there is plenty of room for parking and plenty of access to the water. Boaters could pull up and peruse the store, and it would be easily accessible from both directions on the highway.
On the other hand, the Aud would be perfect for an international youth sports center. Like Bass Pro, youth championship events attract many people from all over. There could be lacrosse championships, midget hockey finals, soccer games and many more. These events would draw people from Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Rochester and many other places.

Unlike Bass Pro, the people who come to youth venues spend the night at local hotels and frequent local eateries and movie houses. It would be a real boost to the city and specifically the businesses downtown to use the Aud for what it was designed for and not try to make it something it is not.

Simon F. Manka

Orchard Park

[WNYresident]

On the other hand, the Aud would be perfect for an international youth sports center. Like Bass Pro, youth championship events attract many people from all over. There could be lacrosse championships, midget hockey finals, soccer games and many more. These events would draw people from Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Rochester and many other places.

Why not use the already existing HSBC? Plus don't they use the Pepsi Center Arena for some of this type of stuff?

[WNYresident]

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Stop clinging to the past and knock down the Aud

9/24/2006

Upon reading the Sept. 17 letter asking that the now-defunct Memorial Auditorium be preserved "to memorialize the war dead," I could only say to myself: Buffalo and Western New York continue to decline economically and politically, and some still want to hold on to relics of the past!
It seems that people in this area are too content to settle for and hang on to the "less-than-the-ideal" things such as voting the party line and name recognition, the "goodies" associated with the above and preservation of what once was but can never again be; rather than push ahead and set their sights higher. No wonder people and businesses leave here.

I say, knock the Aud down. The area needs to push for the future.

Lloyd A. Marshall Jr.

Lockport

[granpabob]

I keep going back to their own argument. the aude was to old run down and in need off very expensive over hauling to just make it livable. we were told how unsafe it was how it leaked in the rain. how expensive it was to heat and cool. this building was all but condemned when they convinced us we needed a new one. now ten years later its a miracle with no heat and no repairs it mended its self and is too good to tear down.
I remember to cracks the plaster falling the mildew smell . I remember our leaders begging for a new arena
when you put that high school youth game in the aude will they pay thousands to bring the heat up and clean the place. each event will have to rebuild a portion just to use it. sure put your basketball game in side it will only cost you $175,000.00 per night plus clean up afterwards. dynamite the joint and get it over with. it will cost less to get rid of it then the monthly operating cost to keep fixing it day after day week after week it sits and rots. the place cant be better now then when we were told it was no good

[300miles]

Why not use the already existing HSBC? Plus don't they use the Pepsi Center Arena for some of this type of stuff?

There's also the ECC Flickinger center that I thought got a lot of youth sports events.

That's just a block or two away.

[therising]

Simon F. Manka of Orchard Park is clearly on dope.

[granpabob]

thanks for the tip I was running out

[Stevenco]

Bring the Rochester Americans to Buffalo and let them play at the Aud.
This way, call-ups don't have to travel 100 miles west to join the team.
The young Amerks will see the HSBC Arena, and realize that they're only another game winner and a couple hundred yards from the National Hockey League.