The Building of Russo Park at Louisiana

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Originally Posted by wcd35

To me, the problem with a neon sign is that our stadium is barely visible to any roads. We already have the giant LOUISIANA on the scoreboard that stays on which you can mostly see from Congress. But most of the stadium except the 1B side is blocked or not visible. And it's still pretty far away from the road. And you can kind of see parts of the stadium from Bertrand, but its not like a big street runs right next to the field.

Now lets say it was moved directly to the corner of Congress and Bertrand (in current parking fb parking lot) then I could see having something like that where lots of traffic could easily see it.

It would look good just to walk up fans though

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I will be going down congress in few minutes. Will bring my camera and take a picture or two to see the view and post it.

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Originally Posted by wcd35

To me, the problem with a neon sign is that our stadium is barely visible to any roads. We already have the giant LOUISIANA on the scoreboard that stays on which you can mostly see from Congress. But most of the stadium except the 1B side is blocked or not visible. And it's still pretty far away from the road. And you can kind of see parts of the stadium from Bertrand, but its not like a big street runs right next to the field.

Now lets say it was moved directly to the corner of Congress and Bertrand (in current parking fb parking lot) then I could see having something like that where lots of traffic could easily see it.

It would look good just to walk up fans though

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Yeah, that's the biggest bummer for me. We have this awesome new stadium and it is tukced into the corner where no one can see it.

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Originally Posted by CajunRebel

Yeah, that's the biggest bummer for me. We have this awesome new stadium and it is tukced into the corner where no one can see it.

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In the master plan they discussed how they looked at several different scenarios of where to plac things. One of them had the Tigue at the corner of Bertrand/Congress, and I really liked that. It would have been our 3 biggest venues all in a line on Congress, which I think would've been great. We could have then used the current Tigue space for tailgating.
Don't know why that was shot down, but I imagine that $$$ may have been a contributing issue.

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Originally Posted by LaCajunsFan

In the master plan they discussed how they looked at several different scenarios of where to plac things. One of them had the Tigue at the corner of Bertrand/Congress, and I really liked that. It would have been our 3 biggest venues all in a line on Congress, which I think would've been great. We could have then used the current Tigue space for tailgating.
Don't know why that was shot down, but I imagine that $$$ may have been a contributing issue.

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I'm sure that would have cost way more than what they went with. You'd have had to tear down the IPF, current Tigue, tennis courts and done new builds of all of them. Would have likely looked better but I can't blame them for not doing that option. We'd still be waiting for a lot of it to get done.

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Originally Posted by wcd35

I'm sure that would have cost way more than what they went with. You'd have had to tear down the IPF, current Tigue, tennis courts and done new builds of all of them. Would have likely looked better but I can't blame them for not doing that option. We'd still be waiting for a lot of it to get done.

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Well, I think they should've kept the IPF/APC and tennis courts where they are....just move the Tigue. But that still would've been a much more expensive endeavor....I believe my original remark was not sarcastic enough to convey how likely I feel that this was the primary reason that plan was shot down, ;-)

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Originally Posted by LaCajunsFan

Well, I think they should've kept the IPF/APC and tennis courts where they are....just move the Tigue. But that still would've been a much more expensive endeavor....I believe my original remark was not sarcastic enough to convey how likely I feel that this was the primary reason that plan was shot down, ;-)

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Yeah that was the "T. Boone Pickens as your benefactor" option

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Originally Posted by LaCajunsFan

In the master plan they discussed how they looked at several different scenarios of where to plac things. One of them had the Tigue at the corner of Bertrand/Congress, and I really liked that. It would have been our 3 biggest venues all in a line on Congress, which I think would've been great. We could have then used the current Tigue space for tailgating.
Don't know why that was shot down, but I imagine that $$$ may have been a contributing issue.

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Considering the current $16M expansion of the Tigue, a few years back they priced build a new baseball stadium across Congress on the side of the Hilton Garden Inn and if memory serves it was more than $35M for a stadium the size of the Tigue after the current upgrades. Considering we had some difficulty with the $16M I'd definitely say it was money.

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Originally Posted by LaCajunsFan

Yep! I agree: in arched lettering, in keeping with all the other arches on the façade.
Bold, yet very simple and classy.
(I wish I could photo-shop, cause I would use it to see what this would look like.)

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.....I love carrying out themes in design concepts......remember the Louisiana behind the plate is arched, and this would keep the deal going!!!

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Originally Posted by CajunRebel

Yeah, that's the biggest bummer for me. We have this awesome new stadium and it is tukced into the corner where no one can see it.

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Unless they had put a sunken field on the corner where all could see a drive-by game. I think the current location offers (by far) the best possible game day experience.

Nebraska has a field you can see from the road. It's incredible.

Roof is on the third base canopy and the gates are up at the third base entrance.