Great video, it's nice to see a future stadium that's not sitting in the middle of a sea of parking lots. Also sounds like Knoxville would be a great city to fully build a true LRT line in the future especially with this coming.
@HowtoBuildtheWorld
2 жыл бұрын
I absolutely agree 👍 tho, this whole region in east Tennessee is extremely car-dependent with laughable or extremely sad or no public transit. So you know what that means 😏 a future video on it 😎
@leemontgomery5794
2 жыл бұрын
Definitely excited to see a video about LRT in Knoxville, connecting this stadium/ old city to Gay St and UTs campus would be phenomenal.
@davepov
2 жыл бұрын
Nicely done. Here's my 2-cents worth on this project. I watched the exact same thing happen in Columbus, Ohio when I lived there for over 30 years. The city, with the help of the Fortune 500 giant, Nationwide insurance, took an old area next to downtown with almost nothing in it except a closed prison that everyone wanted torn down and turned it into the sports MECA of the city. Now, in that area (and, by the way, you should go to Columbus and do a video on the "Arena District") there is an arena that houses the major league hockey team, the "Bluejackets," a baseball stadium with the AAA team for the Cleveland Indians and a brand new soccer stadium for the professional team, the "Crew". That stadium is huge, seating tens of thousands of fans. All through the area, called the "Arena District" are condos, apartments, restaurants, bars and some shops, even a movie theater. It is THE place for the young and hip to hang out on weekend. Thousands of Ohio State University students can be found in the district at the bars. So, if all the development gets done around the new stadium in Knoxville, I'm sure University of Tennessee students will flock there. As to whether or not it will have an impact on the surrounding poorer neighborhood, the answer is, it will. There is already "gentrification" going on in the Fourth & Gill, Old North Knoxville, Five Points and other neighborhoods east of the stadium site. What usually happens in cities where there is a man-made barrier like an expressway is, if the cool, new development is on one side of the highway and a run down neighborhood is on the other, the city makes the highway even more of a barrier between the two. Sometimes actual walls or other onjects are put up under the expressway that keep the "undesirables" from going from the old neighborhood to the "developed" side. That sounds bad and it is but it still happens. I've seen it in more than one city. If Knoxville is smart it will do all it can to improve old neighborhoods regardless of what "class" of people live there. That has also worked in many cities around the world. Lower income people still get to live in their old neighborhood but as it improves many of them do what they can to improve their properties and the neighborhoods become good places to live...not fancy, but pleasant, walkable, low crime areas. As the old saying goes, only time will tell. Make sure you follow-up on this story! Good luck.
@clementine77
Жыл бұрын
Boyd's Jig and Reel....great Scottish eatery and bar...
@GogoMotoring
2 жыл бұрын
Nice video, Andreas! Keep up the great work!
@willbygosh4887
6 ай бұрын
The cost of the present Smokies stadium was 19.4 million dollars when it opened in 2000.The cost of the new stadium will exceed 110 million dollars when it opens in 2025.
@clementine77
Жыл бұрын
If you build it, they will come....
@MrChristheWise
2 жыл бұрын
The time lapse at the end was a nice visual. What would the greenway connection you mentioned look like?
@HowtoBuildtheWorld
2 жыл бұрын
I have no idea, the design plans have not been finalized but I am guessing it will go along the creek surrounding the neighborhood to the south. Thanks for watching 😎
@BantiarnaMacRaghnaill
Жыл бұрын
I'd like to see you cover the Wests and their rise to power via cannabis smuggling. lol. It's a great story and Scott and Bernie continue to buy, restore, and wow the Knoxville community, sans cannabis these days.
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