I'm most excited for the part that they're building a racquetball court! More racquetball courts are needed in this damn city.

Awesome Article! However, I do feel that people would be discouraged to come here if they had to pay for parking. It utterly shocks me how many people from the burbs don't understand parking at all in Midtown. And a lot of them make it an issue. They'd have to do some sort of sweeping, sensible reform for people to truly understand it and to have it not make an impact on the performance of midtown businesses.

I know it'd be expensive to implement initially, but has anyone done a long term cost analysis of changing the fare procedures of RT so that it's MANDATORY to purchase a ticket to ride. I don't think I've been on many systems (and I get a kick out of going and riding public transit) that work on the honor system quite like RT. It'd be a good thing. There'd be less of the critters who get on late at night and maybe RT could actually increase service sometime.

One very important note: no one under 21 will be admitted.

Has anyone really considered doing something in West Sacramento, say right across the river (see: Ziggurat pt. 2) or whatnot? Yeah, not a lot of commercial activity, however there is that new planned community, it's really not that far from downtown (light rail would DEFINITELY need to be expanded to the stadium) and would probably be cheaper in terms of real estate? I'm imagining it being something like the Ballpark District in SW Washington, DC. I'm not really backing this idea yet because I'm not completely knowledgable on the logistics, but has this idea ever been thrown out? (Then again, does Sacramento really want to lose another sports entertainment venue to west sac?) Overall, I'm just hoping we can build a new arena somewhere more logical than Natomas. Suburban sprawl is over and probably won't be back for quite some time. Honestly, I'd totally go to more games if I could walk, bike, or (easily) bus to an arena downtown and I don't even like basketball all that much.