What if for some reason, New Orleans got the 2028 Olympics

[vl100butch]

I know in some ways this is almost ASB, but a Summer Olympics in April or October in New Orleans could be interesting
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featuring a new stadium to replace the Louisiana Superdome?

there are two potential locations; 1) along the Mississippi river on the North side of the Crescent City Connection(twin bridges across the Mississippi); 2) on Canal and I-10 high rise across from the new medical complex...

a lot of infrastructure from Tulane, UNO, and other local universities could be used...and could you imagine packing the old Superdome for gymnastics or basketball?

sailing events, no problem on Lake Ponchatrain...rowing could be on Bayou St. John or up in Baton Rouge on University Lake...

 

[Don Corleone]

Games would have to be in the spring. Can't risk a Katrina one month before the opening ceremonies (or an Opal slightly to the west).

The best place for a football/Olympic stadium in New Orleans is at Poydras and Loyola...so you'd need a renovation. Saints would need to endure a season in Baton Rouge, although the nice new Dome would be a good payoff.

Turchin would work for baseball, except the Uptown NIMBYs would never allow it. Yulman can't handle soccer which is one reason Tulane didn't revive its program.

Tad Gormley is a dump and would need to be replaced, but the new stadium would be great for City Park.

Biggest challenge is the Olympic Village. You don't want to disrupt historic neighborhoods which limits building close to downtown, and you'd create new housing without jobs that make it affordable (or you'll turn it into substandard housing which the city already has too much of).

 

[vl100butch]

Games would have to be in the spring. Can't risk a Katrina one month before the opening ceremonies (or an Opal slightly to the west).

The best place for a football/Olympic stadium in New Orleans is at Poydras and Loyola...so you'd need a renovation. Saints would need to endure a season in Baton Rouge, although the nice new Dome would be a good payoff.

Turchin would work for baseball, except the Uptown NIMBYs would never allow it. Yulman can't handle soccer which is one reason Tulane didn't revive its program.

Tad Gormley is a dump and would need to be replaced, but the new stadium would be great for City Park.

Biggest challenge is the Olympic Village. You don't want to disrupt historic neighborhoods which limits building close to downtown, and you'd create new housing without jobs that make it affordable (or you'll turn it into substandard housing which the city already has too much of).

agreed on spring...April would be the best month

a stadium at the location of the present dome creates a bunch of problems...it needs to be larger in order to handle track and field...

baseball, use Zephyr (now Baby Cakes or whatever the hell the AAA team is called now) Field and/or Alex Box...

a new Tad Gormley in City Park has some potential, how big would it honestly have to be for track and field? Could you get by with a permanent stadium of around 40K with temporary stands seating another 30? Then used a renovated Superdome (although I think the Dome is getting to the point that modernization is going to become pouring money down the drain) for the opening and closing ceremonies? add a streetcar loop going through City Park going down Orleans Avenue, through the Park and hooking back in over by the museum stop...

Olympic Village...out by UNO? Could be new dorm space...would have to see what Atlanta did...

and the US Attorney's office would have to be quadrupled in size!!!

 

[Don Corleone]

agreed on spring...April would be the best month

a stadium at the location of the present dome creates a bunch of problems...it needs to be larger in order to handle track and field...

baseball, use Zephyr (now Baby Cakes or whatever the hell the AAA team is called now) Field and/or Alex Box...

a new Tad Gormley in City Park has some potential, how big would it honestly have to be for track and field? Could you get by with a permanent stadium of around 40K with temporary stands seating another 30? Then used a renovated Superdome (although I think the Dome is getting to the point that modernization is going to become pouring money down the drain) for the opening and closing ceremonies? add a streetcar loop going through City Park going down Orleans Avenue, through the Park and hooking back in over by the museum stop...

Olympic Village...out by UNO? Could be new dorm space...would have to see what Atlanta did...

and the US Attorney's office would have to be quadrupled in size!!!

Streetcar loop would be great. Much cheaper to operate than buses.

Olympic village at UNO could work. More space that way, and could help UNO draw a larger number of traditional students. Right now they're primarily commuters.

I wonder if they could use the Fairgrounds for anything? Short walk from the Canal streetcar.

 

[vl100butch]

Streetcar loop would be great. Much cheaper to operate than buses.

Olympic village at UNO could work. More space that way, and could help UNO draw a larger number of traditional students. Right now they're primarily commuters.

I wonder if they could use the Fairgrounds for anything? Short walk from the Canal streetcar.

If you use a radius of 125 miles from the foot of Canal St at the Mississippi River, you'd be amazed about what's out there that could be used besides existing infrastructure in the 4 parish area (Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines): Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, University of Louisiana - Lafayette, University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, MS, Camp Villere, Slidell, LA...and that's not including what's in the Mobile area...

but it'd require a degree of creativity and cooperation between states and local governments that would be unprecedented even under hurricane conditions...