Pinnacle Bank Arena

[hhcmatt]

Anyone know where you can find the Journal Star in Omaha?

 

Tom Shatel's front porch?

 

Everything from the guide from this Sunday's paper can be found here: http://journalstar.com/arena/

[kldm64]

He makes the comment, "And remember, you can buy your parking place online, in advance"  Does anyone know the website or how you can buy your parking place in advance?  I called ticket office a week or so ago and they told me that to get a parking pass, you have to pay $300 to rebounders club to be eligilbe and it's additional $85 for a parking pass. 

 

Is this article only talking about concerts and such for parking spots in advance or does it include NU basketball games as well?  I put my name on the list for parking pass with UNL ticket office but will cancel it if there is a better way to secure a parking spot?

[ajb5856]

He makes the comment, "And remember, you can buy your parking place online, in advance" Does anyone know the website or how you can buy your parking place in advance? I called ticket office a week or so ago and they told me that to get a parking pass, you have to pay $300 to rebounders club to be eligilbe and it's additional $85 for a parking pass.

Is this article only talking about concerts and such for parking spots in advance or does it include NU basketball games as well? I put my name on the list for parking pass with UNL ticket office but will cancel it if there is a better way to secure a parking spot?

I don't know where online to go to reserve a parking spot. In my opinion those rebounders lots are only equally as close if not further away (aside from one) than the city options. And it's going to be exactly the same price whether thru UNL or the city. The deal in the paper yesterday said event parking was going to start out at $5 this year. 17 home games times the $5 is how they arrive at the $85. Same price.

[kldm64]

 

He makes the comment, "And remember, you can buy your parking place online, in advance" Does anyone know the website or how you can buy your parking place in advance? I called ticket office a week or so ago and they told me that to get a parking pass, you have to pay $300 to rebounders club to be eligilbe and it's additional $85 for a parking pass.

Is this article only talking about concerts and such for parking spots in advance or does it include NU basketball games as well? I put my name on the list for parking pass with UNL ticket office but will cancel it if there is a better way to secure a parking spot?

I don't know where online to go to reserve a parking spot. In my opinion those rebounders lots are only equally as close if not further away (aside from one) than the city options. And it's going to be exactly the same price whether thru UNL or the city. The deal in the paper yesterday said event parking was going to start out at $5 this year. 17 home games times the $5 is how they arrive at the $85. Same price.

 

 

I was thinking the same thing as the lots for the rebounds club were not that great.  Not sure what the advantage would be to pay the extra $300 if you aren't going to get a preferred lot that is better than the city options.  I might call and cancel my request with rebounders club parking as overall, that would cost almost $25 to park at every game (with the rebounders donation).

[hhcmatt]

The booster lots potentially could get you out faster, especially over a parking garage.

I wonder if we should start a parking section here.  Putting this all on a google map would be easy enough.

[ShortDust]

The booster lots potentially could get you out faster, especially over a parking garage.

I wonder if we should start a parking section here.  Putting this all on a google map would be easy enough.

With the parking, I'm at a wait and see approach. I also plan to go earlier for a drink and possibly stay later after words. I was one at Devany that would just sit in car and listen to the post game show, so that the rush was never really an issue to me.

[ajb5856]

The booster lots potentially could get you out faster, especially over a parking garage.

I wonder if we should start a parking section here. Putting this all on a google map would be easy enough.

With the parking, I'm at a wait and see approach. I also plan to go earlier for a drink and possibly stay later after words. I was one at Devany that would just sit in car and listen to the post game show, so that the rush was never really an issue to me.

I really think this is gonna work out better than the devaney situation where you had all of the cars trying to exit from a total of 2 points from sate fair park/innovation campus.

The insert in yesterday's paper laid it out pretty well. Haymarket park/festival space parkers will go out on Sun Valley. Arena and rebounders lots parkers head out to the north on pinnacle bank arena drive toward the roundabout and Antelope Valley Parkway. Parking garage people head out south on PBA drive toward west O. Then they close Q and R streets between Canopy/7th to prevent cutting thru the current Haymarket. Personally, I think the ticket is going to be to park south of O street down by the industrial lots or anywhere else outside the 'restricted area' such as south of O street and east of 9th/10th. But like anyone else I'm just going to have to feel it out to see how it goes.

[cipsucks]

The first event at Pinnacle is this Thursday.  It's the Farm Food Fork thingee with Andrew Zimmern.  Rumor has it, the beef served at this venue comes from Nebraska Star Beef. 

[Norm Peterson]

I checked on parking.  According to the little map that came with my ticket info, the new lot across the RR track from PBA and next to Haymarket Park will be run by SMG and the Haymarket Park parking will apparently be run by the city.  And the cost of parking for either is apparently going to run about 3 to 5 bucks.  And they'll have the guys in yellow vests out there confiscating your money in exchange for the privilege of you walking across an icy cold parking lot and frigid pedestrian bridge in the middle of winter to get to a venue your tax dollars built in order to see an event you've paid money to purchase a ticket for.

 

I mean, dammit, can't they just make the parking free in the lot across the tracks?  It's just a flat piece of asphalt for gawd's sakes.  I'm not asking for covered parking in a garage.  Before the PBA was built, it was just wasteland that wasn't doing anything productive.  It was just sitting there empty.  But now they smoosh some asphalt on top of it and think they should rent it for about the cost of a room at the Holiday Inn.¹  And they don't even give you room service.  Or a mint on your pillow.

 

When the state owned the fairgrounds and parking was free and then you went to the university owning it and they started charging for the same exact thing, I just began feeling like parking was another way to try to gouge you for extra money.  Leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.

 

^{1  Think about it.  A parking spot is about 150 sq ft and you rent it for maybe 2.5 hours.  A hotel room is 3 times that size and you rent it for 24 hours, about 10 times longer than the parking spot.  Five dollars per spot times 3 spots times 10 = $150 for the equivalent amount of time and space that you'd have at a hotel room.  A nice hotel room.}

[49r]

I checked on parking.  According to the little map that came with my ticket info, the new lot across the RR track from PBA and next to Haymarket Park will be run by SMG and the Haymarket Park parking will apparently be run by the city.  And the cost of parking for either is apparently going to run about 3 to 5 bucks.  And they'll have the guys in yellow vests out there confiscating your money in exchange for the privilege of you walking across an icy cold parking lot and frigid pedestrian bridge in the middle of winter to get to a venue your tax dollars built in order to see an event you've paid money to purchase a ticket for.

 

I mean, dammit, can't they just make the parking free in the lot across the tracks?  It's just a flat piece of asphalt for gawd's sakes.  I'm not asking for covered parking in a garage.  Before the PBA was built, it was just wasteland that wasn't doing anything productive.  It was just sitting there empty.  But now they smoosh some asphalt on top of it and think they should rent it for about the cost of a room at the Holiday Inn.¹  And they don't even give you room service.  Or a mint on your pillow.

 

When the state owned the fairgrounds and parking was free and then you went to the university owning it and they started charging for the same exact thing, I just began feeling like parking was another way to try to gouge you for extra money.  Leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.

 

^{1  Think about it.  A parking spot is about 150 sq ft and you rent it for maybe 2.5 hours.  A hotel room is 3 times that size and you rent it for 24 hours, about 10 times longer than the parking spot.  Five dollars per spot times 3 spots times 10 = $150 for the equivalent amount of time and space that you'd have at a hotel room.  A nice hotel room.}

 

Welcome to capitalism and the free market, Norm.

 

We don't do your socialist "free parking" here in America, buddy!

 

[Jadler]

I take it Norm wouldn't like where the free parking is in the Bottoms area then. Have to walk down the dirt X St. then across the pedestrian bridge. 

 

[49r]

Joking aside, I do think that paying to park is kinda crappy...well, I'm not opposed to paying for parking per se but I think it would be better if they could just put a surcharge on the ticket you buy with a parking fee attached (which would be less because usually people come in groups of 2-3 on average).  A $2 parking surcharge on every ticket sold should just about cover it.  Maybe $1.50 even.

[Norm Peterson]

 

I checked on parking.  According to the little map that came with my ticket info, the new lot across the RR track from PBA and next to Haymarket Park will be run by SMG and the Haymarket Park parking will apparently be run by the city.  And the cost of parking for either is apparently going to run about 3 to 5 bucks.  And they'll have the guys in yellow vests out there confiscating your money in exchange for the privilege of you walking across an icy cold parking lot and frigid pedestrian bridge in the middle of winter to get to a venue your tax dollars built in order to see an event you've paid money to purchase a ticket for.

 

I mean, dammit, can't they just make the parking free in the lot across the tracks?  It's just a flat piece of asphalt for gawd's sakes.  I'm not asking for covered parking in a garage.  Before the PBA was built, it was just wasteland that wasn't doing anything productive.  It was just sitting there empty.  But now they smoosh some asphalt on top of it and think they should rent it for about the cost of a room at the Holiday Inn.¹  And they don't even give you room service.  Or a mint on your pillow.

 

When the state owned the fairgrounds and parking was free and then you went to the university owning it and they started charging for the same exact thing, I just began feeling like parking was another way to try to gouge you for extra money.  Leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.

 

^{1  Think about it.  A parking spot is about 150 sq ft and you rent it for maybe 2.5 hours.  A hotel room is 3 times that size and you rent it for 24 hours, about 10 times longer than the parking spot.  Five dollars per spot times 3 spots times 10 = $150 for the equivalent amount of time and space that you'd have at a hotel room.  A nice hotel room.}

 

Welcome to capitalism and the free market, Norm.

 

We don't do your socialist "free parking" here in America, buddy!

 

 

Except, in this case, it's the government charging me to park at the place they've confiscated my tax dollars to build.  Let the free market build that arena and they can charge me all they want for parking. 

[hhcmatt]

On the flipside, If $3-$5 per game encourages people to carpool/not park near the stadium, it makes it just a little easier for everyone else to get out of there.

[HB]

I checked on parking.  According to the little map that came with my ticket info, the new lot across the RR track from PBA and next to Haymarket Park will be run by SMG and the Haymarket Park parking will apparently be run by the city.  And the cost of parking for either is apparently going to run about 3 to 5 bucks.  And they'll have the guys in yellow vests out there confiscating your money in exchange for the privilege of you walking across an icy cold parking lot and frigid pedestrian bridge in the middle of winter to get to a venue your tax dollars built in order to see an event you've paid money to purchase a ticket for.

 

I mean, dammit, can't they just make the parking free in the lot across the tracks?  It's just a flat piece of asphalt for gawd's sakes.  I'm not asking for covered parking in a garage.  Before the PBA was built, it was just wasteland that wasn't doing anything productive.  It was just sitting there empty.  But now they smoosh some asphalt on top of it and think they should rent it for about the cost of a room at the Holiday Inn.¹  And they don't even give you room service.  Or a mint on your pillow.

 

When the state owned the fairgrounds and parking was free and then you went to the university owning it and they started charging for the same exact thing, I just began feeling like parking was another way to try to gouge you for extra money.  Leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.

 

^{1  Think about it.  A parking spot is about 150 sq ft and you rent it for maybe 2.5 hours.  A hotel room is 3 times that size and you rent it for 24 hours, about 10 times longer than the parking spot.  Five dollars per spot times 3 spots times 10 = $150 for the equivalent amount of time and space that you'd have at a hotel room.  A nice hotel room.}

 

Norm, is this the first foot-noted post?  While I am impressed, let's hope it doesn't become a trend.  Makes it too much like school and work. 

[Norm Peterson]

 

I checked on parking.  According to the little map that came with my ticket info, the new lot across the RR track from PBA and next to Haymarket Park will be run by SMG and the Haymarket Park parking will apparently be run by the city.  And the cost of parking for either is apparently going to run about 3 to 5 bucks.  And they'll have the guys in yellow vests out there confiscating your money in exchange for the privilege of you walking across an icy cold parking lot and frigid pedestrian bridge in the middle of winter to get to a venue your tax dollars built in order to see an event you've paid money to purchase a ticket for.

 

I mean, dammit, can't they just make the parking free in the lot across the tracks?  It's just a flat piece of asphalt for gawd's sakes.  I'm not asking for covered parking in a garage.  Before the PBA was built, it was just wasteland that wasn't doing anything productive.  It was just sitting there empty.  But now they smoosh some asphalt on top of it and think they should rent it for about the cost of a room at the Holiday Inn.¹  And they don't even give you room service.  Or a mint on your pillow.

 

When the state owned the fairgrounds and parking was free and then you went to the university owning it and they started charging for the same exact thing, I just began feeling like parking was another way to try to gouge you for extra money.  Leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.

 

^{1  Think about it.  A parking spot is about 150 sq ft and you rent it for maybe 2.5 hours.  A hotel room is 3 times that size and you rent it for 24 hours, about 10 times longer than the parking spot.  Five dollars per spot times 3 spots times 10 = $150 for the equivalent amount of time and space that you'd have at a hotel room.  A nice hotel room.}

 

Norm, is this the first foot-noted post?  While I am impressed, let's hope it doesn't become a trend.  Makes it too much like school and work. 

 

No.¹  But it might be my penultimate footnoted post.²

 

^{1  It's not even my first foot-noted post.}

^{2  Which would make this the last one.  Gettin' old.  Eyes fading.  (Mom, is that you?)  Maybe I should switch to big-ass fonts.}

[Nighthawk]

I'm going to make every attempt to go to the ribbon cutting thing on the 29th. If anyone else is going and wants to meet up let me know. You can reach me at [email protected]

[jimmykc]

Norm: I agree with your post about the parking space value, plus you can have a lot more fun in the Holiday Inn.1                                                                            1.Unless your name is Standhardinger.

[49r]

[Nighthawk]

Off topic to a point...but what has everyone thought of the concert announcements to date? I'm kind of 50/50 split on them.  I think they are great for the arena and great for the city and for anyone that wants to see the bands...however on the flip side there has been no announcement that has really excited me personally. I'm still waiting for the first hard rock/metal concert to be at the arena.

[hhcmatt]

Off topic to a point...but what has everyone thought of the concert announcements to date? I'm kind of 50/50 split on them.  I think they are great for the arena and great for the city and for anyone that wants to see the bands...however on the flip side there has been no announcement that has really excited me personally. I'm still waiting for the first hard rock/metal concert to be at the arena.

 

Ask and ye shall receive

[uneblinstu]

Off topic to a point...but what has everyone thought of the concert announcements to date? I'm kind of 50/50 split on them.  I think they are great for the arena and great for the city and for anyone that wants to see the bands...however on the flip side there has been no announcement that has really excited me personally. I'm still waiting for the first hard rock/metal concert to be at the arena.

They've done it exactly how they should do it.  They've got a diverse list that a will have broad appeal that will bring in a mostly different crowd for each show.  They'll get to that genre eventually.  Just a matter of getting the right band to come through and have the dates work out with the venue.

[cipsucks]

I've previously posted I attended Elton's concert at the Devaney Center in 1980.  Great show!  Haven't seen him since, but I bet he's still really good.  I just hope he doesn't twerk on stage......

 

[Concrete]

 

Off topic to a point...but what has everyone thought of the concert announcements to date? I'm kind of 50/50 split on them.  I think they are great for the arena and great for the city and for anyone that wants to see the bands...however on the flip side there has been no announcement that has really excited me personally. I'm still waiting for the first hard rock/metal concert to be at the arena.

They've done it exactly how they should do it.  They've got a diverse list that a will have broad appeal that will bring in a mostly different crowd for each show.  They'll get to that genre eventually.  Just a matter of getting the right band to come through and have the dates work out with the venue.

 

Agree with both of you.  Not personally "pumped" about any of them, but I think they've pretty much nailed it as far as booking and getting people in the seats is concerned.

 

For Lincoln, they've brought in a great haul IMO.  Better than I would've imagined.

[49r]

I've previously posted I attended Elton's concert at the Devaney Center in 1980.  Great show!  Haven't seen him since, but I bet he's still really good.  I just hope he doesn't twerk on stage......

 

 

Nigel "I've got the biggest kit in the world" Olsen?

 

Is Elton trying to tell us something here???