re: First look at New Orleans 2019 Super Bowl bid logo

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I applaud your effort. Looks like a lot of sunshine and rainbows to me, but I hope that it can get done.

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It is not sunshine and rainbows. I hate to poop oh your party pooping parade, but here are the facts. Mercedes Benz Stadium (Atl) is costing $1.4billion, the proposed Chargers/Raiders stadium in Carson was $1.8billion and the stadium part of the City of Champions Stadium project in Inglewood is around $2billion. It is much cheaper to build in NOLA than California so I guessed a $1.5billion is what it would cost to build in NOLA. The new Bucks arena will cost $524million, and NOLA does not have to build during the winter or deal with the unions as much as Milwaukee so even in 10 years ~$500million should still build a state of the art arena.

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2025 sounds about right.

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Well that is when the leases are up, and that is why I picked it.

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Hopefully the political climate at that time is right and we aren't still in a financial crisis.

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Louisiana will always be in a financial crisis. We spend ~$1,000 more/citizen than the other southern states and we have a fudged up structure to the whole government. However, we do have a dedicated tax to fund the Superdome, Smoothie King Center, and Convention Center so there is money for those projects regardless of the political climate.

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I think they would have to tear down the dome first, build a new stadium, then tear down the Arena and build a new arena if they were going to do both. Not sure both could get done at the same time, and I have no idea where the Pelicans would play if the arena was torn down. Playing in Baton Rouge would be pretty terrible for them. NBA Arenas take about a year and half to build.

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The new saints stadium would be a dome or retractable roof stadium and that would be build to host basketball for final fours. The Pelicans could play a season or 2 in the superdome or new stadium while a new arena was being built. They could not play in BR because the River Center is too small and the PMAC does not have suites.

Also if the city or state did not want to tear the Superdome down because it is a historical structure and would make badass Katrina museum or some other museum there is plenty of land elevated highway that leads to the CCC. Just extend the Loyola streetcar line past the UPT and boom a developer has enough land to redevelop.