Cytown Update
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Anything on updates to the Audio/video systems in Hilton? Our current score/video board is over 15 years old in Hilton, from what I can find, which is more than double the length of time between when we upgraded from the last one to this current one.
Watching games this year around the Big 12 it does seem like ours is getting outdated. WVU has an Awesome video board, which is assume is almost brand new.
I am wondering if there is any plan to upgrade out video board and add ribbon boards? Is it part of the main package to upgrade the Hilton Concourses that keeps getting pushed back, or is that just for the concourses and exterior etc?
Watching games this year around the Big 12 it does seem like ours is getting outdated. WVU has an Awesome video board, which is assume is almost brand new.
I am wondering if there is any plan to upgrade out video board and add ribbon boards? Is it part of the main package to upgrade the Hilton Concourses that keeps getting pushed back, or is that just for the concourses and exterior etc?
Yes I would definitely say our video board is outdated. Both in video quality and even size. I might have missed it but any Hilton renovation stuff I have seen I can't remember it discussing a video board update unfortunately.
Hilton 100% needs a new scoreboard and new speakers. I think the music audio this year has been brutal.
There's a plan for everything. It all comes down to where it slots in on the cost/priority list.
Those BKs were pretty crappy. Even being a somewhat new (last 10 years) building on 13th St it was pretty run down and greasy the last time I was in there around 2019.
I've heard maybe it'll become an Olive Garden.
Summer of 2006 So 17 years now. . Comparably, from what I can find daktronics (who supplied our video board back then) estimates the lifespan of its screens to be about 10 years (and older boards may have had shorter estimated lifespans). And it shows. When you look at the screens you can see a lot of dead pixels up there.
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New video board unveiled at WVU Coliseum
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The WVU Coliseum’s newest upgrade is officially complete. After months of anticipation, West Virginia University Athletics unveiled the newly-completed Coliseum vide…
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The developer of the Ames mall ended up going bankrupt. Partially the reason the development never got off the ground.
JTS could use an upgrade in the scoreboard/sound system as well. The NEZ scoreboard has been there a while now.
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New video board unveiled at WVU Coliseum
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The WVU Coliseum’s newest upgrade is officially complete. After months of anticipation, West Virginia University Athletics unveiled the newly-completed Coliseum vide…
Looks like a video explosion. Gave me a headache. Need to see it in use for a game.
Thats the current A4 and D4 lots that would be demoed for the season. But it seems like D1 and D2 get merged to D1, and D3 becomes D2 and all that would be done by football season which seems awesome.
Seems like small parts of B6 and C6 will be redone with the building pads down and chunks of those parking spots gone too.
Interested how this all plays out.
Yeah, there is going to be some reconfiguring done. I just dont know how much will follow this plan, or if the final plan will be done different, and if the timeline will be the same.
If it follows this, It looks like there may be a couple areas of construction going on and out of use for the season....or they could get ahead and have them done, or pause things for the season, my guess is there are some variables involved. And part of the reason parking passes arent going to be issued until later to see what will and wont be done or available.
This is off topic for this whole thread, but I'm interested to hear more how you see Ames as pro-growth and the county is actively prohibiting growth. My experience has been the exact opposite. The natural resource plan I haven't dove into much yet so I can't speak to that other than it may restrict rural development, nothing inside Ames jurisdiction. The urban fringe plan is ambitious growth by the City and will lock up a very significant portion of land surrounding the current City from any development or modifications until annexation occurs which there is no plan for. I see this as stalling any likely development through the new agreement.
Developers have purchased land around Ames or looking to purchase and want to annex. By not allowing annexation they can’t develop, also the county would still have the same restrictions on that land around Ames so extremely limited development would be allowed with no annexation allowed under the county plan. It would definitely hamstring Ames. I follow local govt pretty closely and would agree current county board is less friendly to growth/dev. By limiting the available land I could see cost for what is available getting jacked up even more too.
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Parking lot work to start later this month.
https://www.inside.iastate.edu/article/2023/02/23/lots
https://www.inside.iastate.edu/article/2023/02/23/lots
