Indoor Practice Facility

[reformedUNDfan]

Dude your confusing 2 different things. The IPF is NDSU's practice facility, it's for the student athlete's training (mainly football) and is entirely privately funded. The park district is a planning a public facility for many different activities using tax dollars.

Noone is confused about this. Both facilities have a large indoor field for football and soccer. If the district and NDSU had teamed up, like with the Fargodome, and built it in North Fargo, that portion of the facility could be done on a grander scale and have a priority tenant. Putting the Fargo Parks indoor athletics complex next to the NDSU/Fargo athletics complex gives both NDSU and Fargo something bigger than either could do independently. We could have a $60m two-field IPF going up on the north side and the high school football and soccer team rentals could be paying rent through the parks district to keep it up. Its a blown opportunity.

[bisonaudit]

Noone is confused about this. Both facilities have a large indoor field for football and soccer. If the district and NDSU had teamed up, like with the Fargodome, and built it in North Fargo, that portion of the facility could be done on a grander scale and have a priority tenant. Putting the Fargo Parks indoor athletics complex next to the NDSU/Fargo athletics complex gives both NDSU and Fargo something bigger than either could do independently. We could have a $60m two-field IPF going up on the north side and the high school football and soccer team rentals could be paying rent through the parks district to keep it up. Its a blown opportunity.

But, Fargo parks has little incentive to that because most of the people they serve and all of their growth is on the opposite side of town. This is not hard to figure out, even if the politics between the University and the citizens of Fargo weren’t a problem.

[Bisonator98]

Noone is confused about this. Both facilities have a large indoor field for football and soccer. If the district and NDSU had teamed up, like with the Fargodome, and built it in North Fargo, that portion of the facility could be done on a grander scale and have a priority tenant. Putting the Fargo Parks indoor athletics complex next to the NDSU/Fargo athletics complex gives both NDSU and Fargo something bigger than either could do independently. We could have a $60m two-field IPF going up on the north side and the high school football and soccer team rentals could be paying rent through the parks district to keep it up. Its a blown opportunity.

You clearly are confused or you wouldn't keep posting about it. Not everything Fargo does needs to include NDSU or vice versa. A large portion of Fargo tax payers couldn't care less about NDSU. JFC.

[HerdBot]

Fargo is running out of developable land until the diversion is finished, and density is low on the south side. There are big projects going up downtown, ~1000 units opening in the next 2 years.

The stretch if land this will be on is an insane growth area. 52nd Ave S is starting to approach 13th Ave level traffic and will grow bigger. That entire area will soon have a a recreational lake, career center a giant golf facility. It already has a Walmart, Aldi, Cash Wise, giant Happy Harry's, and numerous banks They will be expanding veterans and 45th south all the way to 76th Ave S. It's also the area where we will see future schools.

Also the FM Greenway along the diversion could be the biggest economic driver since the Fargodome. It will be most beneficial to the southwest

[oldmantutters]

You clearly are confused or you wouldn't keep posting about it. Not everything Fargo does needs to include NDSU or vice versa. A large portion of Fargo tax payers couldn't care less about NDSU. JFC.

Somebody has been paying attention to the grammar thread.

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[reformedUNDfan]

You clearly are confused or you wouldn't keep posting about it. Not everything Fargo does needs to include NDSU or vice versa. A large portion of Fargo tax payers couldn't care less about NDSU. JFC.

they don't have to care about ndsu, they'd be getting a much bigger facility for their money and the combined facility would have a higher utilization rate from better accessibility when NDSU isn't using it. NDSU could have 2 full indoor practice fields and the city could get use the other 90% of the year's hours.

Land south of 52 in Fargo west of interstate is too low to build on until the diversion is finished, and the city wants to avoid getting too strung out along the river on the east side. The city wants more infill, and has alot of room to get it. Developers are already starting to buy up land in the industrial area west of downtown and south of NDSU.

[Gully]

Somebody has been paying attention to the grammar thread.

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Don't you mean the gramar thread?

[Bisonguy]

they don't have to care about ndsu, they'd be getting a much bigger facility for their money and the combined facility would have a higher utilization rate from better accessibility when NDSU isn't using it. NDSU could have 2 full indoor practice fields and the city could get use the other 90% of the year's hours.

Land south of 52 in Fargo west of interstate is too low to build on until the diversion is finished, and the city wants to avoid getting too strung out along the river on the east side. The city wants more infill, and has alot of room to get it. Developers are already starting to buy up land in the industrial area west of downtown and south of NDSU.

Yeah, 38th St extending to 64th Ave and the 64th Ave completion in 2022 paint a different picture. Southward growth was redirected due to the Sanford Medical Center construction. Now that’s been built out and the 52nd Ave corridor to 64th is the next hot spot for larger developments. Once the utilities are in place for the workforce academy and fargo sports complex, additional development will follow quickly behind just as it did for the hospital.

Herdbot- you forgot about the family entertainment center next to Suite Shots.

[appropriate belt]

they don't have to care about ndsu, they'd be getting a much bigger facility for their money and the combined facility would have a higher utilization rate from better accessibility when NDSU isn't using it. NDSU could have 2 full indoor practice fields and the city could get use the other 90% of the year's hours.

The NDSU IPF will get use outside of the football team with the bubble being at the end of its life.

Land south of 52 in Fargo west of interstate is too low to build on until the diversion is finished, and the city wants to avoid getting too strung out along the river on the east side. The city wants more infill, and has alot of room to get it. Developers are already starting to buy up land in the industrial area west of downtown and south of NDSU.

By that logic, the land south of 32nd should be empty. The portion of land the Fargo Parks Indoor facility is proposed on is out of the current FEMA floodplain.

[HerdBot]

they don't have to care about ndsu, they'd be getting a much bigger facility for their money and the combined facility would have a higher utilization rate from better accessibility when NDSU isn't using it. NDSU could have 2 full indoor practice fields and the city could get use the other 90% of the year's hours.

Land south of 52 in Fargo west of interstate is too low to build on until the diversion is finished, and the city wants to avoid getting too strung out along the river on the east side. The city wants more infill, and has alot of room to get it. Developers are already starting to buy up land in the industrial area west of downtown and south of NDSU.

Land south of 52nd is mostly overland flooding. The diversion won't fix that. However the man-made lake will solve a big chunk of it. That's why we see so many ponds in that area