Redesign of Carver

[HandSanitizer]

Those ladies do a wonderful job inside of carver.

[jdoggivjc]

Originally Posted by ISUFan22

Fine...I'll say it...

I like the design of that shirt - would look perfect with the ISU logo on it and in red. :)

I have the ISU version of that shirt only in grey (what can I say - I've got enough "red" ISU shirts)

[jdoggivjc]

Originally Posted by isucyfan

I heard they are putting these signs up around the arena:

The thing is would anybody be able to read it?

[SuperCy]

Originally Posted by jdoggivjc

The thing is would anybody be able to read it?

The visiting team.

[travman23]

Originally Posted by isucyfan

I heard they are putting these signs up around the arena:

So people are putting red X signs up huh?

[SlyCy]

This was in the CR Gazette today.

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Carver redesign might top $40 million
By Scott Dochterman
The Gazette

IOWA CITY — Carver-Hawkeye Arena’s redesign could cost more than $40 million, Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta said this week.

Original cost estimates were $25 million to $40 million, and Barta said the final tally could go as high as $45 million. He hopes to raise $15 million in private donations for the project.

‘‘Right now we’re still going back and forth to decide can we still afford something at $40-42 (million),’’ Barta said. ‘‘Once we go to the Board of Regents to ask for permission, we need to have all of those answers well in hand.’’
No timetable has been set. Given regents’ approval, Barta hopes for completion by the 2009-2010 basketball season but concedes the following season might be more realistic.

‘‘It’s a very broad range at this point,’’ he said. ‘‘And we don’t even have permission to proceed.’’

Preliminary plans continue to bounce — primarily because of cost — between Barta and Iowa City’s Neumann Monson Architects, so designs are not finished. Barta said the bowl will stay similar in structure, but the 25-yearold arena will look vastly different from the court upon completion.

Iowa plans to add club areas, one of which Barta said will have a ‘‘sports bar-type feel’’ at the top part of the arena. It will include several big-screen televisions and a coat room. Below the gold railing, designs call for padded chairback seating with cupholders at courtside. That group will have its own club area.

The arena won’t include luxury seating, Barta said.

‘‘(The original designers’) goal was to make this a great arena, but not have it be looming high, so they built it in a ravine,’’ said Barta, who praised the original project. ‘‘It served that purpose well. The downside to the way we built the arena is there’s no concourse level, so we are limited in what we can do.’’ Barta said plans call for reseating in at least parts of the arena, according to financial- giving levels and long-term season-ticket holders. Barta said his staff will alert season-ticket holders well in advance about reseating plans.

Barta said the renovated arena will include at least one high-speed elevator. No decision has been made regarding alcohol sales, he said. The project’s primary purpose has little to do with arena cosmetics, however. The men’s and women’s basketball teams and volleyball squad practice at the arena. Wrestling and gymnastics competitions are held there, as are university graduations and other events. That often results in scheduling challenges.

‘‘The No. 1 reason we’re looking at this is we have to have more practice space,’’ Barta said. ‘‘If we did nothing else, we will have to build a practice facility. So that’s what’s driving this. That’s what got this all started.’’

The locker rooms, offices and weight rooms will be renovated. Weight room space now stands at 1,800 square feet and Barta said that needs to expand from 8,000 to 9,000 square feet.

The arena was built in 1983 at a cost of $18.4 million.

• Contact the writer: (319) 339-3169 or scott.dochterman@gazette communications.com

[clones26]

Originally Posted by ISUFan22

Didn't ISU release Master Plan details during a 4-8 season that was followed up with a 3-9 season?

yeah, but we had record setting season ticket numbers during that time along with attendance records at games, not a lower attendance than a volleyball match.

[SlyCy]

22, how did you fix that formatting? I've always wanted to get it to look like that but never could figure it out.

[ISUFan22]

Originally Posted by SlyCy

22, how did you fix that formatting? I've always wanted to get it to look like that but never could figure it out.

Copying stuff from some internet sites is a pain. Some keep the paragraph spacing and some don't.

I've found for the ones that don't, I have to create the post, edit it and add the paragraph lines. If you do it while creating the post, it actually adds an extra line or two.

All I did to edit your post was push enter at the end of each paragraph.

[psycln11]

They can reduce costs by using this guy for security for the games...

[ajk4st8]

Originally Posted by cytech

Isn't ISU spending around $100 million on Hilton, when all is said and done?

Hasn't it been years since weve started talking these plans? Since Iowa has revamped Kinnick and will probably have Carver done before we do.

[Cydkar]

High speed elevator? How fast does an elevator have to be if it only goes to a 2-3 levels? This isn't the Sears Tower.

I think they could save $1 million by going with the "Standard Speed" elevator. :)

[scottie33]

Originally Posted by Cydkar

High speed elevator? How fast does an elevator have to be if it only goes to a 2-3 levels? This isn't the Sears Tower.

I think they could save $1 million by going with the "Standard Speed" elevator. :)

So fans can book their *** out of there after being embarassed by being a hawkeye fan.

[theshadow]

Judging by the age of some of their fans, a "standard" speed elevator would feel like high speed.

[SLOW DOWN, ETHEL!!!]

[IOWASTATE]

I like how when they are promoting a "sports bar type feel" they have to add in that yes, there will indeed be a coatroom. thank god now all those people that wear coats in the winter in iowa can finally go to an iowa bball game phew!