[JDUB]

sit in a cubicle on the phone for 8 hours with 3 breaks, and scheduling is really hard to get along with. its really not a terrible job for college students, but i couldn't take talking to rude people on the phone constantly and never being allowed a day off for vacation, even if i asked months in advance

[thesportscritic]

good ole chase and carol the schedulers at the crew. cant stand either one of them because they are jerks.

[mrmacphisto]

J.Crew is just one company in town that can't meet its staffing needs. The fast food industry in general is hurting bigtime in Lynchburg. Target has a huge turnover rate and is always hiring. There's never any assistance at the office supply stores. I see businesses all over that can't seem to find enough help. Just because we have thousands of college students here doesn't mean they'll work at any store or restaurant that opens up. Maybe it will change at the end of the summer, but it seems like manpower is spread pretty thin right now.

[JDUB]

i think the problem is the turnover. I know it is at Jcrew. They have new training every 2-3 weeks because so many people quit

[thepostman]

J.Crew is just one company in town that can't meet its staffing needs. The fast food industry in general is hurting bigtime in Lynchburg. Target has a huge turnover rate and is always hiring. There's never any assistance at the office supply stores. I see businesses all over that can't seem to find enough help. Just because we have thousands of college students here doesn't mean they'll work at any store or restaurant that opens up. Maybe it will change at the end of the summer, but it seems like manpower is spread pretty thin right now.

I had the hardest time for my first year and a half finding anything aside from a student worker position...not because places were hiring, but because they didn't want to have employees leave for the summer or christmas, at that time i lived on campus and it was pretty much impossible for me to stay around...but once i got a place off campus, it was so much easier to get jobs...thats the same kind of problem a lot of student who live on campus have when trying to find a job..

[TBallJack]

Last semester, I had a friend who worked at an auto parts store in Lynchburg...grossly understaffed. My friend said something to the manager about getting another person in, and he replied that he was at his limit for payroll. Not all, but I think so many businesses are trying to run as lean as possible. Unfortunately, customer service suffers.

[PeterParker]

http://www.patriot-place.com/contents.aspx?About
http://www.patriot-place.com/
http://www.patriot-place.com/contents.a ... tive%20Map


http://www.akron.com/20061207/wsl81.asp

In addition to the stadium and sports complex, two retail areas and a medical campus also are being proposed. The first retail area would feature a 425,000-square-foot lifestyle shopping center on approximately 45 acres and would be similar in scope to projects in Westlake (Crocker Park) and Lyndhurst (Legacy Village). The second retail area of approximately 250,000 square feet would have an anchor retailer that would be entering into the Ohio market for the first time on approximately 30 acres. It also would feature a mixed-use development of retail, restaurants and hotels.

The medical campus would include a 24-hour urgent care center, a medical office building, a world-class sports rehabilitation facility and a wellness center for area senior citizens, according to Wolstein Sports.

The stadium is expected to create 1,600 full- and part-time construction jobs. Once the stadium, sports complex and retail mixed-use development are complete, it is expected to employ more than 2,000 people, according to Wolstein Sports. Additionally, in its first year of operation the stadium is expected to generate approximately $20 million in state, county and local tax revenue.

http://www.dickssportinggoodspark.com/S ... spx?NID=15
http://www.dickssportinggoodspark.com/R ... pment.aspx

The new Rapids Stadium will be the cornerstone of an expansive sports, entertainment and retail complex. The stadium will be pre-fitted for concerts and stage events, seating up to 26,000, while seating 18,000 for sports events. Twenty-four youth and professional practice fields will join the stadium in the sports park, making it the largest soccer complex in the United States.

Included in the 917-acre, mixed-use Prairie Gateway development will be a new Commerce City civic center housing most city government offices, a hotel complex, and more than 600,000 feet of retail and commercial space to be developed by KSE.

http://www.denverpost.com/rapids/ci_5586849

"The MLS teams that have their own stadiums can better control their finances - the signage, the sponsorships," said Mike Rock, general manager of the facility. "And we can improve the fan experience, make it more intimate and exciting."

Pittsburgh-based retailer Dick's Sporting Goods is paying a reported $40 million over two decades to name the complex. Other sponsors include Coca-Cola, Tecate, HealthOne and College Invest

“This is truly a unique partnership between private enterprise, non-profit organizations and governments at the local, state and federal level,” Andrews said. “This development, in conjunction with new education programs for youth, marks the start of a new era in sports business.”

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>This post goes back to the original title, but I still maintain that forward thinking at least compels officials to look at what many of the MLS stadiums are doing as well as Bob Kraft with Patriots Place where they are incorporating the stadium as integral piece of a new urbanism retail center/town place. It Drives foot traffic toward the stores and eateries for games, concerts, etc., plus all of the parking would keep the traffic jam that will come with an eventual 20K or 30K football fans. It would allow some from lynchburg a full evening of a night out with the fam, and for those who want to take in a collegiate game but would rather not have to come on campus, the location is essentially next to the school with high volume traffic patterns already built in the original shopping only collonade plans.


Williams Field at Lifeway Park, Chic-Fil-A Park or Thomas Nelson Stadium anyone?


Granted the price tag is always going to be a concern, but forward thinking could solve having to continually adjust plans. Where is the point of diminishing returns in trying to retrofit. At some point do I keep renovating and adding onto my current home, or do I look for a blank slate to build a new house with all of the new materials, amenities, foundation, etc. With an extra $100 million lying around...


(You should see the shops on Yawkey Way after a Sox games lets out...people practically throwing their money at the Official Sox stores as well as packing just about every restaurant/pub within a mile radius of the stadium to prolong the experience and argue about the crappy ump calls afterward )


While others have maintained that too much was invested in bringing the football operations center to it's state of the art condition, I submit that if there were room to incorporate a new state of the art stadium in conjunction with the collonade, then they could turn the current Stadium into a deidcated Soccer/Lacrosse/Field Hockey field called Williams Field and rename the new stadium with Williams in it. The track could then be retrofitted with bleachers to make an LU track mecca version of Hayward Field. The Baseball stadium I suppose could be built into the Hill if there wasn't enough room to add that also next to the Collonade (like Baltimore's twin stadiums.)


All of the other sports teams could use what the football team now uses, and a new stadium could house its own Bubble practice facility and football only weight room. (Or simply move the current football weights into the new stadium and move Hancock's stuff into the operations center. Hancock could then be utilized for something else.


The question is will they be kicking themselves in 10-15 years when they look back and think to themselves, we should have at set aside a phase for expansion of the Collonade to house a new stadium. Perhaps a too grandiose idea at this point, but in 10-15 years, it may not seem like such an absurd idea. Of course the completely absurd idea (but kinda interesting to think about) would be to negotiate a landswap for many of the stores in the shopping center where the dollar theater is(favorable leases in the new collonade), buy up the townhomes for a favorable amount and build a stadium with some shops/restaurants around the perimeter. Absurd yes, but so was a dude walking a 5000 acre hill with a wing and a prayer.


Man, I've said way more than I intended tonight. I should be good for awhile now. ha ha

[LUconn]

So in your world, does LU traffic drugs or weapons? Or do they simply print their own money?


You act like this is a game of Sim City. You can't just put another football stadium. There's a little bit of difference between what an NFL team can do and a college football team that just started getting over 10k to games.

[rogers3]

I wonder how AIG's woes will translate to AIG Baker and the plans for Crossroads. Anybody in the know?

[JDUB]

they are trying to sell off assets so there is a chance this part of the company will be sold and it will go through under a different name

[Sly Fox]

AIG is being forced to liquefy assets. The odds of them moving forward on projects is next to nil.

JJ is supposed to be meeting with their reps.

[Fumblerooskies]

AIG is being forced to liquefy assets. The odds of them moving forward on projects is next to nil.

JJ is supposed to be meeting with their reps.

I love it...Sly is displaced from home and STILL is able to get the inside story.

[LUconn]

I had a feeling since they delayed it that it may never get done. I've got to laugh at the folks who bought the land right around it thinking it would be worth it's weight in gold.

[JDUB]

that land still has a lot of potential and is in a great location. personally I think its a good place for a civic center. I think in the next 5 years something big will be built there, but maybe not. I guess we'll have to wait and see

[Cider Jim]

in the next 5 years something big will be built there, but maybe not.

As always, JDUB has all his bases covered.

[JDUB]

[Fumblerooskies]

In the meantime, I guess we are just building a bridge to nowhere...

[newandimproved]

In the meantime, I guess we are just building a bridge to nowhere...

not if Sarah Palin has anything to do with it!!!!

[rogers3]

I wonder how AIG's woes will translate to AIG Baker and the plans for Crossroads. Anybody in the know?

I'd like to think that the N&A saw the post... they do get some of their news from FF, don't they?


http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/news/loc ... _aig/8448/

[givemethemic]

AIG is being forced to liquefy assets. The odds of them moving forward on projects is next to nil.

JJ is supposed to be meeting with their reps.

it's amazing sometimes what you recieve in a "PM"

[Rooster Cogburn]

BUMP! Is this place dead?

[LUconn]

They're still over there working on the road and bridge every day.

[Rooster Cogburn]

In the meantime, I guess we are just building a bridge to nowhere...

This bridge, the one to nowhere? Thanks Fumble!

[rueful]

saw this and thought NO WAY they are getting back to construction