New DePaul Arena Updates

[Boyee]

The only way I can see my alma mater (DePaul University) getting at least decent again is with getting a new head coach who recruits Chicago and Chicagoland hard, athletic director, and playing in their new "Events Center" on the Near South Side of Chicago across the street from McCormick Place's West Building between the streets of E. Cermak Road (South), S. Indiana Avenue (West), S. Prairie Avenue (East), and E. 21st Street (North).

[billyjack]

DePaul's new arena is still scheduled for groundbreaking this winter, with everything still on schedule.
Looking like a chance at opening for the 2016-2017 season.
So maybe only 2 more years in Rosemont.

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/4 ... -81687547/

"DePaul University officials are still targeting a winter groundbreaking for a planned $173 million McCormick Place arena and new home for Blue Demons basketball. Site clearing is underway and infrastructure work will follow for the arena and a planned hotel on Cermak Road west of the exposition complex.

“The coach house on the property has been moved, the (landmarked Harriet F.) Rees mansion is going to be moved in November and the bank that’s owned by the Cacciatore family is being reconstructed at 14th and Michigan,” Jean Lenti Ponsetto, DePaul’s athletic director, said during a pre-season basketball event this week. “They’re still saying first quarter of 2015 there will be a shovel in the ground.”

The project is expected to take around 22 months to complete."

[Xudash]

This is fantastic news for DePaul and the Big East conference, but am I allowed to find it humorous that anyone would attempt a winter groundbreaking in Chicago?

[notkirkcameron]

This is fantastic news for DePaul and the Big East conference, but am I allowed to find it humorous that anyone would attempt a winter groundbreaking in Chicago?

Maybe it's a union thing.

[ivet]

This is fantastic news for DePaul and the Big East conference, but am I allowed to find it humorous that anyone would attempt a winter groundbreaking in Chicago?

You underestimate Chicago and winter.
You think winter is your ally? You merely adopted the winter.
Chicago was born in it. Molded by it.
They don't see the light until May.
By then it is nothing to them but blinding.
The snow betray you....because they belong to Chicago.

[Xudash]

I love the city, please don't get me wrong.

A lot of my friends from Xavier are/were North Shore guys.

It's just that it's Ice Station Zebra in that January through March zone, while it otherwise is one of the most beautiful places you could possibly be in the fall and spring, in particular.

[notkirkcameron]

I love the city, please don't get me wrong.

A lot of my friends from Xavier are/were North Shore guys.

It's just that it's Ice Station Zebra in that January through March zone, while it otherwise is one of the most beautiful places you could possibly be in the fall and spring, in particular.

Who says it can't be both?




OK, who am I kidding, by late January/February it's looking more like this.


Home Sweet Chiberia.