What Will Be Built

[AustinFromUNT]

Right after you cross the bridge headed to Apogee, next to where the information people are set up there is this huge concrete slab. Any idea what is supposed to go here, if anything at all?

[Cr1028]

Probably nothing will be built. I'm thinking that may be an old parking lot related to the golf course or hotel.

[DemolitionDan]

What should go there if it was up to you?

[AustinFromUNT]

Not gonna lie, it's an eyesore that everyone sees when they enter Apogee. We should put SOMETHING there. Whether that should be a building, such as a visitor information building or just some scenery like flowers is up for discussion.

[Ben Gooding]

If it's not opened up for tailgating, those would be some pretty good spots. 

Not to run with this idea from a previous thread at all or anything, but 4 or 5 food trucks could fit into that space as well. 

Big inflated Scrappy? 

 

[Greenrex]

Maybe we could paint a big Circle "H" to indicate a helipad...in green of course...just see what happens.

[BTG_Fan1]

That was the parking lot for the old hotel that never got torn up...

Huge eye-soar for UNT, and needs to be fixed... honestly would be a good place for an alumni wall or center have people pay X bucks to get a name on a brick or even a concert pavilion for the pregame...  anything to get bodies by the stadium

Edited June 29, 2017 by BTG_Fan1

[GMG24]

59 minutes ago, AustinFromUNT said:

Not gonna lie, it's an eyesore that everyone sees when they enter Apogee. We should put SOMETHING there. Whether that should be a building, such as a visitor information building or just some scenery like flowers is up for discussion.

I'd turn it into the PARTY Pavillion for current UNT students who are of legal drinking age.  Throw a pool or lazy river in, make it a damn attraction!! Let's go!! Lol

[BTG_Fan1]

28 minutes ago, GMG24 said:

I'd turn it into the PARTY Pavillion for current UNT students who are of legal drinking age.  Throw a pool or lazy river in, make it a damn attraction!! Let's go!! Lol

Sounds like what Arkansas State is kinda doing at there stadium with our buyout money

[Ryan Munthe]

It's been there all the way back to when there was an abandoned golf course.

[GreenMachine]

1 hour ago, BTG_Fan1 said:

Sounds like what Arkansas State is kinda doing at there stadium with our buyout money

They should buy dentures for their fans, starting with the cheerleaders.

[peanuts104]

This is my first post.   Cool.  So, using some internet magic, UNT owns this land it seems.   So it  seems it is within the universities power to make it not an eyesore (AKA make it an alternative tailgate place or something else cool).

[UNTLifer]

12 hours ago, BTG_Fan1 said:

Sounds like what Arkansas State is kinda doing at there stadium with our buyout money

They will regret the waterfalls when their fans are lined up ready to use "them new fangled outdoor bathrooms!"

Back on topic.  I had two ideas for the "slab."

1.  Great place to put food trucks during pregame.

2.  Build a stage facing the tailgate area and have pre and post game entertainment.

[MeanGreen_MBA]

11 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

They will regret the waterfalls when their fans are lined up ready to use "them new fangled outdoor bathrooms!"

Back on topic.  I had two ideas for the "slab."

1.  Great place to put food trucks during pregame.

2.  Build a stage facing the tailgate area and have pre and post game entertainment.

3. a 20 ft statue of Scrappy - as fans come across the bridge, they can rub Scrappy for Good Luck as they enter the "Mean Green Village"  I get credit for this idea....

[oldguystudent]

Post game fireworks launch pad. 

[UNTFan23]

There's speculation that a basketball arena could fit where the old hotel once sat. We're a long ways off from building a new basketball arena though as there are greater needs to be addressed first.

[MeanGreenMailbox aka TFLF]

Do we own it?  I know that sounds weird, but I've seen some strange property deeds, the way land is parceled out or restricted.

If it's none of those things, and we own it, why not put up a little monument park showing some of our football history?  Statues or busts or markers for guys like Joe Greene, Abner Haynes, Carl Lockhart, J.T. Smith, Cedric Hardeman, Brian Waters, Ray Renfro, Bill Bishop...

...dare I even say it...

...ODUS MITCHELL?

[jtm0097]

RV's Sushi Place 

[Texas Stranger]

I like the Food Truck idea.  It woudn't need much permanent structure, just some cleanup and maybe some utilities work.  The food trucks would hopefully get walkup from both visitors and non-season ticket MG fans coming across the bridge.  One possible complaint might be from in-stadium vendors.

[UNT Mean Green]

New basketball arena

[emmitt01]

Clean it up, erect a large "circus tent" each game day and, boom, visiting team tailgate spot!

[Harry]

2 hours ago, emmitt01 said:

Clean it up, erect a large "circus tent" each game day and, boom, visiting team tailgate spot!

That's actually a great idea.

[UNT 90 Grad]

On 6/28/2017 at 8:32 PM, BTG_Fan1 said:

That was the parking lot for the old hotel that never got torn up...

RIP, Radisson.  

[GMG24]

10 hours ago, UNTFan23 said:

There's speculation that a basketball arena could fit where the old hotel once sat. We're a long ways off from building a new basketball arena though as there are greater needs to be addressed first.

Are we? Bet 2-3 years we get one 

[BTG_Fan1]

2 minutes ago, GMG24 said:

Are we? Bet 2-3 years we get one 

I think it's will be longer than that, but it's been floated out there since the Superpit is so costly to update with the new ADA guidelines.