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We haven’t heard much from the Rupp Arena renovation crew lately, but the Architect’s Newspaper has a brief overview of where the project stands and how it will include uncovering a creek that has been buried for over 100 years. The hope is to revive the Town Branch creek and incorporate it into a new and improved downtown layout.
The five design teams that are currently working on the project will present their proposals on February 1, following a symposium organized by the University of Kentucky. We should expect to know more from there.
You can enjoy this rendering of a park until then.
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January 15th, 2013 at 12:31 pm
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January 15th, 2013 at 12:32 pm
Are those kids having a dance party in the park?
January 15th, 2013 at 12:35 pm
How could anybody still have the cats in the tourn. This team will get crushed in the first round of the NIT. This is one of the 4 worst teams in the SEC and this year that is saying something. Why are we still drinking the kool aid and can’t just call it like it is. This team has another 6-7 loses in them.
January 15th, 2013 at 12:36 pm
Uncovering the town branch creek would be really cool. That would connect the town branch bourbon to its back story.
January 15th, 2013 at 12:37 pm
they’re break dance fighting I think
January 15th, 2013 at 12:38 pm
lets make it a 25,000 seat arena, yet somehow fix the terrible upper deck seating
January 15th, 2013 at 12:40 pm
3.) youre a dumbass
January 15th, 2013 at 12:40 pm
Does anybody think cats win tonight? 8 point loss
January 15th, 2013 at 12:40 pm
I’m afraid of the potential of drunk students and fans passing out in this new old creek.
January 15th, 2013 at 12:41 pm
No way Downtown Lexington will ever look that clean. False advertising.
January 15th, 2013 at 12:42 pm
3 – Stick to women’s soccer…. basketball ain’t your thing.
January 15th, 2013 at 12:44 pm
Why are there seagulls is the bottom picture? Is this new creek going to bring new water fowl to Lexington? If so, I’m pumped! Go Cats!
January 15th, 2013 at 12:44 pm
Everybody’s only comeback is man your stupid what are you talking about. Tell me how. This team won’t beat a single team this year that makes the tourn. Why should they make it. You can’t go 500 in the SEC and just get in because we are UK.
January 15th, 2013 at 12:45 pm
Architect here. The renderings look thought provoking… and it sounds like a legitimate and do-able scenario. One thing…. where are you planning on parking for those 20+k going to the game. I lived on Broadway, so I know the game day traffic BS.
The renderings wipe out all the surface lots people use. It paints a nice picture to clean that slate, but you have to put those cars somewhere.
January 15th, 2013 at 12:48 pm
14. K-Lot. Boom. Roasted.
January 15th, 2013 at 12:49 pm
14 – I think they were going to try to do some underground parking under the park. I may be mistaken though.
http://www.ruppdistrict.com/pdfs/MasterPlanSummary.pdf
January 15th, 2013 at 12:50 pm
Downtown Lexington needs a giant public parking garage. But the Town Branch creek revival would be pretty cool.
January 15th, 2013 at 12:50 pm
will the creek include some sort of lazy river / inner tube rental feature ? if so …
January 15th, 2013 at 12:51 pm
…where are you going to park all those inner tubes ?
January 15th, 2013 at 12:52 pm
by the time this is complete , humans will simply teleport to the games, parking = SOLVED !
January 15th, 2013 at 12:55 pm
Was P. Buckley Moss hired to do this rendering? If so, that would explain the creepy shadow/stick people…that would explain the prominent birds in the foreground, too.
January 15th, 2013 at 1:00 pm
Lipstick on a pig.
January 15th, 2013 at 1:03 pm
“Koolaid” references are the most trite, hackneyed and unimaginative of the message board memes. Step away from the cliches and the computer for a while.
January 15th, 2013 at 1:04 pm
#3 How can you say we can’t beat a single team that makes the tournament? When we played the #1 team in the country to one possession. We have a lot to improve, but if there is one person I believe in it is Cal. I still believe he will get to Poythress and we will be dangerous come tournament time
January 15th, 2013 at 1:04 pm
Rose will jump in that creek after every victory…I plan to hunt for crawdads
January 15th, 2013 at 1:08 pm
Yes, put the creek back. That will be a huge help with recruiting. If we had the creek, we might have gotten Shabazz and we’d be undefeated. The power of water cannot be underestimated. Although I think the park there will just draw pedophiles and undercover cops.
And (12) there is a large flock of seagulls living on North Broadway in this old house near Transy. A fellow there breeds them and let’s them fly free throughout the day. They return home at night and live in his attic. I’m sure the artist rendering took this into account.
January 15th, 2013 at 1:11 pm
those picture are scary! Pod people live in Lexington in the future!!!
January 15th, 2013 at 1:12 pm
That newly uncovered creek means I am that much closer to the fabled Lexington pay streak. Will get my dozer, backhoe and shaker down there pronto. 1,000 ounces or bust!
January 15th, 2013 at 1:16 pm
It sounds like a great idea to have the creek back running through the middle of town, but when it begins to flow with the stock-yard overflow and fills the entire downtown with the wonderful arom of bovine excrement maybe we will have second thoughts. There are more than one reason it was put under ground to begin with.
January 15th, 2013 at 1:18 pm
Appropo that we may include a creek in the new design as this year’s team certainly finds itself up one.
January 15th, 2013 at 1:21 pm
I found Waldo in the first image.
January 15th, 2013 at 1:24 pm
I for one will be sorely disappointed if the creek does not include a trailer on its banks with a straight pipe leading to the creek. Also, lots of trash bags/diapers/Mountain Dew bottles on the banks. No way it’s a legitimate Kentucky creek otherwise. At least that’s how they are back home in Letcher County.
January 15th, 2013 at 1:28 pm
What is this wondrous Lexington that is filled only with white buildings? Is this some sort of homage to notorious Democrats of the past like Al Gore Sr. and Robert Byrd?
January 15th, 2013 at 1:32 pm
What did they do with all those wild horses they had running around in the original pictures? #bringthewildhorsesback
January 15th, 2013 at 1:32 pm
Where’s Bob Ross and happy trees when you need him? You people are sour.
January 15th, 2013 at 1:40 pm
9- they have plenty of opportunity to pass out in the triangle park fountain right now.
January 15th, 2013 at 1:55 pm
I’ve always thought Rupp had it backwards in terms of what they use as the “front door” especially from the tv POV. The lower street view by the restaurants and fountain should be the main entrance to rupp and one they should focus on. The back door looks like a damn factory entrance not an entrance to the mecca of college basketball. More like the mecca of machine stamping. They should close off all traffic surrounding the fountain and make it a centralized congregating area outside, the bars can open up to the streets and you have a great environment for a game. This would eliminate the need for 1000′s of people to hover up together in the small Hyatt lobby to slam as many beers as they can before they head into the game.
January 15th, 2013 at 1:56 pm
I’ve never seen that many black people in Lexington
January 15th, 2013 at 2:11 pm
Or seagulls.
January 15th, 2013 at 2:31 pm
Um, #29 (On second thought), I actually flow east to west thru downtown, which makes the stockyards downstream of Rupp Arena and downtown, so no stockyard overflow will be flowing upstream into downtown. The fact that I only carry a trickle of water most of the year may be an issue, however….
January 15th, 2013 at 2:32 pm
29 – It probably won’t be a true resurrection of the creek, but more of a symbolic type of water feature going through downtown.
January 15th, 2013 at 2:35 pm
37. Not sure that there is a “front door” at Rupp. More people tend to use the “back door” because that is where the majority of the parking is…. Since the entrance to Rupp is inside the Civic Center….. Please feel free to use any door to enter the Civic Center that you want.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:18 pm
I hope there are no mummies in that creek when they un-bury it.
Boooooo, mummies.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:25 pm
We prefer to be relocated to the park to allow the waters of the creek to run through us. But do not paint us, we will forever be a nod to the original brilliantly designed Rupp Arena.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:37 pm
So much funny in one post! Love townbranchcreek and air ducts posts!!!!!
January 15th, 2013 at 3:41 pm
there’s going to be a moat?!?!?!?!??!?!?! +1 to most hostile home arena.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:28 pm
Am I the only one concerned about the giant birds of prey that the park seems to attract according to the picture. I mean we are talking 50 foot wingspans!
January 15th, 2013 at 4:31 pm
That looks bobo…
January 16th, 2013 at 1:11 am
Have to say this looks pretty cool and a strep in the right direction