I'm pretty sure the orientation on-campus housing is at MWL. You can bet they will have some events at CyTown for families and incoming students throughout the summer. Easy walk and they'll wanna show it off.
CyTown Announcement - Monday 9/19 (Links in OP)
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I'm pretty sure the orientation on-campus housing is at MWL. You can bet they will have some events at CyTown for families and incoming students throughout the summer. Easy walk and they'll wanna show it off.
Guessing they will show the broadcast of whatever is going on inside Hilton to the video board at CyTown so people can watch it for free from the plaza. Just like P&L in KC.
There are quite a few events during the summer that would benefit from this. Iowa Games, Special Olympics, etc.
If infrastructure and the south 1/2 of the project is complete by the 2025 season, I doubt it will take 17 more years to complete.
Watching that fly-through video makes me think they should add a video screen on the back side of the north end zone score/video board, facing CyTown. Would make a nice bookend to the video screen at the north end of CyTown.
Lending markets and construction labor likely need to improve too. It's a good time to do the boring infrastructure stuff now.
Watching the fly-through makes me want to see a version of the same but shown December 1 through March 15 just to see what they think it'll look like then.
If they are doing all of this can they include a heated tunnel to hilton lol those walks when its -5 out are miserable.
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This. University Ave is one of the busier roads in town. I don't know how much foot traffic there will be, but a ton of people drive by that location every day, even when the students aren't in town.
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They actually did a pretty massive expansion of the ER a few years ago, and capacity was dramatically increased. That said, game weekends are always busy at the ER.
Just wait until they open Johnny's lite for the mid-level donors in the convention space. Basketball games will turn into an all-day event...
None of which is going to the athletic department apparently. I kinda thought that whole idea...
Few assumptions I have (some may be confirmed, I couldn’t watch the press conference):
1. The tenants that are already lined up or close are in the medical complex and brew pub on the south. That part is talked about with the most certainly and why they are starting on the south.
2. The CySuites are essentially a way to get contributions from individuals and companies. They contribute money towards the project (25% of the total) and in return get a 10 year lease on one of the 20 suites that’ll be built. An easy way to inject some early capital into the project to help with infrastructure and construction.
3. There will be a reasonable amount of office space which will be like an extension of the research park (which is in demand). I would assume a lot of the second & third floors of the buildings.
4. The hotel/convention space is a little ways off. I’m assuming they’ve been told they need to see some of the development happen first.
1. The tenants that are already lined up or close are in the medical complex and brew pub on the south. That part is talked about with the most certainly and why they are starting on the south.
2. The CySuites are essentially a way to get contributions from individuals and companies. They contribute money towards the project (25% of the total) and in return get a 10 year lease on one of the 20 suites that’ll be built. An easy way to inject some early capital into the project to help with infrastructure and construction.
3. There will be a reasonable amount of office space which will be like an extension of the research park (which is in demand). I would assume a lot of the second & third floors of the buildings.
4. The hotel/convention space is a little ways off. I’m assuming they’ve been told they need to see some of the development happen first.
I really think the hotel could kill it. The clusters of those on the NE and S sides have zero nearby amenities.
Also they should just keep the name as the Iowa State Center District or something. Let it be named organically. CyTown is kind of lame but whatever not a big deal
