So what are you saying.
Tough day at work. Stop in for a couple of drinks before hitting the road.
Wait that sounds like exactly what I did 3-4 nights a week in my 20's.
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Tough day at work. Stop in for a couple of drinks before hitting the road.
Wait that sounds like exactly what I did 3-4 nights a week in my 20's.
There is food at these restaurants in addition to beverages. Most adults consume both.So what are you saying.
Tough day at work. Stop in for a couple of drinks before hitting the road.
Wait that sounds like exactly what I did 3-4 nights a week in my 20's.
Youth basketball/soccer/etc tournaments will be big in winter and spring. They already happen a lot and I know soccer uses the intramural fields already. It’s usually a pain in the ass to find something to do/eat in between games.
Thanks for that stat about commuters. Randy Peterson's column today didn't recognize that.
I don’t like the comparison to malls. Malls are dying because of online shopping and the like, they don’t offer anything you can’t do from home. A place like CyTown (and other comparable things), isn’t selling itself on its shopping. It’s selling itself on being a place to gather. The shopping and spending money is just a byproduct of that.
Pres. W. hyperbolized that students walk to the ISC all the time. Unless i'm unaware of things changing since I was a student, there aren't a stream of students walking there. Seems like having some student facilities, a CyRide hub and some sort of bike hub would connect the area more to central campus and make it more profitable.
I would imagine students in RCA, MWL, Buchanan and Geoffrey and the Greek houses east of Ash generally walk rather than take transportation to the ISC.
True but some of the newer malls are just like the CyTown project in that they offer those things. The Mall of America being a trailblazer in that area. It was built with the usual mall entertainment of restaurants and movie theaters but in addition boasts an amusement park and aquarium. They also bring in temporary traveling attractions from time to time.
That being said, despite (or maybe because of) living up here, I avoid the MOA like the plague.
Maybe what Cytown needs is a ferris wheel and a rollercoaster. Unfortunately the roller coaster names of Tornado and Cyclone are both taken.
He's still trying to figure out if this project will lower tuition or not.
You can eat at home. Do you not go to restaurants? You can drink a beer at home, do you not ever have drinks away from home? They aren't making this into a large shopping mall. A few stores in there, like the cy place, a convenience type store, and maybe one or two specialty shops isn't going to make it a huge shopping center.
I remember as a kid hitting the silly silo at Adventureland when there was no line. We went on it, ran out around and back on because there was no line. We must have gone on it a dozen times in a row. Adult Velo would have his stomach in his chest after the first ride and likely hurl during the second ride.
Moving the Cys Locker Room from the Duff location to CyTown almost sounds like a no brainier, right? No worries about having to set things up under the tent for every game, plus surely they'd get far better traffic there than in a spot where people can't turn left out of onto Duff.
Flying cars!
Or like the Japanese plan for air pressure tubes to shoot you through to the next station. Think big.
Yeah, I totally agree. I lived in Buchanan and it was a minor walk. I was just saying that when I walked there on the odd occasion during the day (to go to the Scheman Bldg for example) I didn't see many other people walking there. Large crowds only went there for special events. So Wintersteen saying that students walked there all the time doesn't reflect the reality of foot traffic there. A more accurate description would be that lots of students are in easy walking distance of ISC.
When CyTown is built there will be more reason for students to go to ISC on a regular basis, but it seems like it would help to have a few student-centered things (outside of the building process and running the businesses) to give even more reason for students to go there.
This might be an example of deciding to go off-script because at the moment you think you can say something better.
Yeah, kind of like filler that doesn't add up. Yeah, I hope they realize that students don't currently make visits to the ISC day in and day out as part of their calculations.
This just seems really nitpicking. No one goes there because there is no reason to. This is the same distance as the MU from MWL.
