New ARENA as part of entertainment District

[OklaSooners]

Danny Lovell, chief executive officer of The Rainier Companies, said this agreement is between Rainier and the landowner, so neither the City Council of Norman nor the Cleveland County Commissioners need to approve it.

 

[WTSooner]

Developers plan construction phasing for Norman’s Rock Creek Entertainment District


The project features a planned 8,000-seat arena designed for concerts and University of Oklahomagymnastics, a billion-dollar project funded in a public-private partnership with $230 million in taxpayer funds. The remaining $800 million will come from private capital investment.

OU basketball is so bad they don't even mention them playing there, but instead that the NC-winning gymnastics team will. lol

 

[OklaSooners]

Assuming the announcement will be good? Not another setback?

 

[NickZepp]

Assuming the announcement will be good? Not another setback?

Yep probably when it'll break ground.

 

[jdizzle34]

Assuming the announcement will be good? Not another setback?

The University will never announce a setback. You don't normally, in these situations, announce negatives. Just positives.

 

[sanguinetti]

The University will never announce a setback. You don't normally, in these situations, announce negatives. Just positives.

Which is why they could/ should have shifted the new arena "narrative" to something like "we really got our money's worth from the LNC" years ago. A positive that nets the conclusion we need a new gym.

That said, I worked at U of Colorado for a decade and it was customary for CU to wait for summer to start to announce unpopular local PR stuff like " yes, we are going to demolish the old building locals are trying to put on the National Historic Register and build a new conference center"....while university peoples are still heady from graduation or vacation starting and local Boulder peeps heady on the students leaving. Jus sayin.

Minimize blowback.

So, timing from Harroz perhaps.