OFFICIAL: The College Basketball Experience (NABC Hall of Fame) building design

[KCPowercat]

yes, why bother improving street interaction for pedestrians.

I'm the one who said it was 80' (sarcastic) because of the lack of scale between those people in the drawing and the model.

[aknowledgeableperson]

Grand is a boulevard and should not be a typical downtown street.  It is the widest street downtown and to put something like this along it should be an embarrassment for the City.
Besides, the building should be tied to the steam and cold water systems downtown to save money.

[scooterj]

More details released today...

http://kctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4007 ... =menu101_3



Looks like the plans include a holodeck.   I don't want to be around when the characters become sentient and start killing everyone....

On the second floor, visitors will find multimedia exhibits designed to recreate the atmosphere of the college game -- by putting them into the middle of the action.

"You'll put yourself in those positions -- where there's a crowd, what a coach says, what a player does, how to dribble and hit that shot," Krzyzewski said at a news conference. "For that moment, we hope College Basketball the Experience will unite what you are doing with what has been done for over the last hundred years."

Krzyzewski, who is president of the NABC Foundation, seemed particularly taken with an attraction designed -- hostile crowd noise and all -- to simulate shooting free throws late in a close game.

[Jhawkman02]

Dont know if anyone posted this, but heres some info of it from the NABC website.

http://nabc.collegesports.com/nabc_prog ... ience.html

[mister816]

Grand is a boulevard and should not be a typical downtown street.  It is the widest street downtown and to put something like this along it should be an embarrassment for the City.

[DiggityDawg]

Here's the Star story on the latest info :

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascit ... 956569.htm

[Long]

From the article:

[quote]“I would like to recommend that for the next writers’ convention, we have it here in Kansas City — and every basketball writer goes up and shoots one of those free throws with all of that around him,â€

[Boognish]

From the article:

Oh cry me a river.  That's a basketball player's friggin job.  I'd like to see a basketball coach step into my job for a day and see how much he's able to accomplish.

I agree with you, but two things: He's trying to do what every coach should do - protect his players in the eyes of the public. (Privately is a different matter). Secondly, it's probably taken out of context - I think he was trying to be funny.

[LenexatoKCMO]

I agree with you, but two things: He's trying to do what every coach should do - protect his players in the eyes of the public. (Privately is a different matter). Secondly, it's probably taken out of context - I think he was trying to be funny.

I didn't know Satan was capable of humor. 

[Boognish]

I didn't know Satan was capable of humor. 

Coach K is Satan? A Kentucky grad, I take it? 

[KansasCityCraka]

I'm hoping that this building will be one of the ones that everyone will be surprised about the final product.

[Tosspot]

I'm hoping that this building will be one of the ones that everyone will be surprised about the final product.

If it has anything in common with the current rendering, my guess is that is a patent impossibility.

[KansasCityCraka]

If it has anything in common with the current rendering, my guess is that is a patent impossibility.

I don't think the design of it is that bad but that one blank wall facing the P&L District needs to be covered up with a few billboards or a neon sign(saying, NABC Hall of Fame)....

[KansasCityCraka]

I don't think the design of it is that bad but that one blank wall facing the P&L District needs to be covered up with a few billboards or a neon sign(saying, NABC Hall of Fame)....

Actually I was thinking today when I was DT about possibly having an electronic billboard. Bartle Hall is the only place DT that really has a some what big electronic billboard.

[mister816]

Actually I was thinking today when I was DT about possiblt having an electronic billboard. Bartle Hall is the only place DT that really has a some what big electronic billboard.

good idea, Im sure they will have some when the pnl is done, possibly on the side of some old bldg to cover up some of the shit DT.

[KCMax]

Coaches, KC poised to build hall

The Kansas City Council today is expected to endorse a contract with the National Association of Basketball Coaches to create a hall of fame connected to the Sprint Center.

The development agreement sets the stage for the organization to seek state tax credits, which should help with its aggressive goal of raising $8 million more in donations for the project.

The council’s Finance Committee signed off on the development agreement Wednesday, and it goes before the full council today.

“This is one more step in getting us to the ultimate resolution of what is going to be a terrific facility,â€

[DiggityDawg]

$4 million in tax credits OK’d

Proposed hoops hall gets boost from state

Facility would be near Sprint Center

By KEVIN COLLISON - The Kansas City Star

The proposed National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame got a big assist Tuesday when a state agency approved tax credits that could generate up to $8 million in donations.

The rest of the article : http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascit ... 176919.htm

[KansasCityCraka]

KCP, I made this thread so we can monitor the NABC Hall of Fame Construction in it's own thread, so the Arena thread will not get over crowded. The only thread made for the NABC so far is for the renderings.

On the webcam today you can see a crane that is now on the NABC site. Maybe they will finally get moving on this also. Does anyone think this block will have a small tower crane? It's only 4 stories so I don't know. I think it would be a lot easier for them to have one. 

[bahua]

So nobody else needs to google it:

NABC = National Association of Basketball Coaches

[KansasCityCraka]

This week they started placing the foundation.