re: Proposal in BR to build large new Arena to replace both River Center and PMAC

I'm sorry but there is one thing I do like about the Centroplex, which is the way it overlooks the river. Don't get that with it on LSU campus.

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This is an arena for a major LSU sport, it should be on campus, not downtown. It’s just a bad idea.

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Where are y’all getting the idea that this would be built downtown? I haven’t seen that at all.

I have read that it would be on LSU property. Seems more likely that they’re looking at a location on (or immediately adjacent to) campus than building a new LSU-owned arena downtown. Unless y’all know something I don’t..

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Where are y’all getting the idea that this would be built downtown? I haven’t seen that at all.

I have read that it would be on LSU property. Seems more likely that they’re looking at a location on (or immediately adjacent to) campus than building a new LSU-owned arena downtown. Unless y’all know something I don’t..

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In the footprint of the river center. Also, the areana needs to be name after Pete. They should just gut thr PMAC and renovate it.

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The Assembly Center has hosted the greatest bands in the world.

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This was primarily in the 70s and early 80s before New Orleans built the Lakefront Arena in 1983 and the followed with the arena downtown in 1999. The main reason major touring acts were picking BR over Nola was because BR had right sized venue (Superdome was too big).

I think if a new state-of-the-art arena is built, BR can claw back some of the shows they have been missing out on, but it won’t ever go back to what it was.

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In the footprint of the river center. Also, the areana needs to be name after Pete. They should just gut thr PMAC and renovate it.

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Not sure they can build this on the site of the River Center without demolishing everything that's there - including the convention hall. The convention hall actually needs to be expanded significantly.

I like the idea of naming it - wherever it is - after Pete Maravich.

I have the sinking feeling it will be named after Gordan McKernan though. Or maybe Raising Cane's or Walk On's.

If it's on campus, I'd like to see it right on Nicholson near the north gates, close to the PMAC. If it's off campus, I'd like to see it downtown or between downtown and LSU. I don't want it to be in the suburbs or way down at the "south campus" off GSRI.

I saw G&R in 1992 at the assembly center. Of course they did NOLA the same year. I just think the music scene in BR fell off a cliff sometime in the early/mid 2000's for whatever reason. The Caterie fire was the nail in the coffin. I'm frankly surprised that NOLA gets skipped over by big acts now as well. This should NEVER happen in a city so dependent on tourism.

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I saw G&R in 1992 at the assembly center. Of course they did NOLA the same year. I just think the music scene in BR fell off a cliff sometime in the early/mid 2000's for whatever reason. The Caterie fire was the nail in the coffin. I'm frankly surprised that NOLA gets skipped over by big acts now as well. This should NEVER happen in a city so dependent on tourism.

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G&R / Soundgarden had to be the last major rock tour that hit the area which wasn’t an oldies act like Lynyrd Skynyrd.


Most other shows I can think of subsequent to that were club level at The Varsity, Texas Club, etc.



I am just shooting in the dark here but the lack of shows at the PMAC and Centroplex of this type could be either an issue with availability (LSU sports, other events, etc) or it could be an issue with the actual promoters.


Jimmy Kilshaw and his mother, for instance, used to run wrestling at the Centroplex for years and were notorious for not having an accurate count for tickets sold. It is a running joke for old Mid South / UWF guys, when Kilshaw is mentioned, to say what the announced attendance would always be claimed to be at those shows.

If the bands know they aren’t getting an accurate count of the gate and that the venue is subpar, they will find somewhere else.

Would need to move the Vollyball Courts and build a new Natatorium and tennis complex, but this could work pretty well IMO:







I can also see this being optimal, especially if a large, scalable arena is built on this site that can handle LSU Basketball + concerts that normally pass the region by:








But we can all agree that this is the absolute best solution.

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But we can all agree that this is the absolute best solution.

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If it is on campus they need to put is by Alex Box, but if its not on campus, its hard for students to go see the games and participate. Another location is all those parking spaces by the Coastal Building or something like that.