This was in the N&O last week, but it was a great time to run it after the electric atmosphere in the RBC this past weekend.
The Centennial Authority, the public agency that owns the RBC Center, has drafted plans for a $60 million retrofitting in 2019 that would keep the arena open for another 15 years.
The plans haven’t been approved, but they indicate that the authority’s governing board won’t follow the lead of Charlotte and other cities that have built arenas closer to the city centers. Instead, they plan to ask for millions of dollars over the next two decades to make renovations.
Let’s face it, the Wolfpack teams that have called the ESA/RBC home certainly haven’t been intimidating…but, the intensity and originality of the crowds have also left us wanting more. Let’s hope that the future of the Pack’s performance and the environment created in the RBC will look a lot more like the 50 years we spent in Reynolds rather than the first decade in the ESA/RBC.
