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[Seattle Times] 15 years after moving Sonics, now it’s the Thunder asking for publicly funded arena
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Unrelated to the public funding, I cannot fathom how often stadiums get replaced nowadays. Boston Garden was around for 70 years or so, MSG has been around for 60 years, Lakers used the Forum for 30 years, but it's still in operation today. How is it that the Thunder need a new stadium after 15 years?
I see the same thing with baseball. The Mets and Yankees had Shea Stadium and Yankee Stadium for 50 years each before getting new parks. Now it's like it only takes 20 years for a new park to be built. It's so wasteful
Yankees had OG Yankees stadium since the 20s, it was more like 80 years. Sox are still in Fenway which is over 100 years old.
tbf Yankee Stadium got renovated in the 70s which definitely helped its shelf life
Oh yeah, that’s a good point