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.

Your comments about LA reminded me of Shea/Citifield in NYC. The only businesses around the stadium are chop shops. It's viable (and strangely, loved.) because of its relative closeness to Manhattan by Subway. The subway stop is near the entrance of the field. If they did decide to build something outside of downtown, they damn well better make it easily transit accessible (I'm looking at you, Light Rail. No buses).

I never seemed to see people there, so this is totally not shocking. They should come back and try for a new concept. How many sushi/asian restaurants can you fit on the grid, honestly?

But arenas must go somewhere. And I think it's been shown that there's a lot more benefit from having a sports complex in an urban place to having one out in.. Natomas. It seems that when there's a new complex built, it totally changes and overhauls the neighborhood around it. There're also those who don't mind living next to a complex. DC's Nationals Stadium actually advertises as the ballpark neighborhood and honestly, it's probably the only place in all of DC I'd move back to.