Cards New Training Facility in ‘28 - North Phoenix

[Zeem_Freeze]

They should do a new training facility by the Salt River Fields in Scottsdale... The suns move to put the training facility in Arcadia (vs. a daily commute downtown) was huge for player morale and ability to attract free agents... (plus, it's fun to grab a drink at the Global Ambassador and have a good chance of running into Suns players)

The players live in Paradise Valley and Arcadia... put the training facility nearby... Plenty of raw land available right there off Pima just north of the spring training facilities...

 

[kerouac9]

They should do a new training facility by the Salt River Fields in Scottsdale... The suns move to put the training facility in Arcadia was huge for player morale and ability to attract free agents... (plus, it's fun to grab a drink at the Global Ambassador and have a good chance of running into Suns players)

The players live in Paradise Valley and Arcadia... put the training facility nearby... Plenty of raw land available right there off Pima just north of the spring training facilities...

Isn’t that native land? I’m sure Michael and family are looking for a sweetheart deal.

 

[Zeem_Freeze]

Isn’t that native land? I’m sure Michael and family are looking for a sweetheart deal.

yeah, would be a long term lease. But the commercial structure is clearly workable with all those car dealerships, Spring training facilities, resorts, and retail there.

Honestly going to pitch my neighbor John Trusiak on it (board of directors of Salt River Devco)... he should approach the cardinals with something.

Salt River Development Co

 

[Zeem_Freeze]

Confirmed on no possibility of Cards moving their practice facility to Salt River - Pima Corridor.... Bidwills too cheap and would cost at least $300M

 

[ajcardfan]

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A few recent college football facilities...

Texas A&M - 205 million
Alabama - 288 million
University of Colorado - 143 million
University of effing Cincinnati - 105 million

You can see where these guys are coming from about our facilities.

 

[Crimson Warrior]

how about 2025 instead?

How about March of 2025?

 

[BritCard]

Confirmed on no possibility of Cards moving their practice facility to Salt River - Pima Corridor.... Bidwills too cheap and would cost at least $300M

Yes, but minus what they get for selling developing the current site. Needs to be done. Putting $100m into Tempe locks them in there for another 20-30 years.

And it's not like they have to pay it all upfront, you finance it and pay it back over 25 years out of revenue. It's a zero risk investment so you'd get good rates.

 

[phillycard]

A few recent college football facilities...

Texas A&M - 205 million
Alabama - 288 million
University of Colorado - 143 million
University of effing Cincinnati - 105 million

You can see where these guys are coming from about our facilities.

 

[Zeem_Freeze]

well at this point all we can hope for is that Bidwill is on the Epstein list...

 

[JohnnyCakes]

ive been in that training facility and can tell you first hand it rivaled high school amenities.

Im not kidding either.

 

[unseenaz]

The cost is all pretty subjective. Vikings have one of the best practice facilities in the NFL and I'm reading it cost them 90mil.

We already have the land, but I'd bet we have the smallest practice facility in the NFL, it's such a small sliver of land.

It would be nice if they got that place set up so we could have our training camps there, doing those in the stadium feels so bush league.

 

[TruColor]

I've always thought the issue with holding training camp at the teams' facility is the heat. You'd really need some sort of climate-controlled venue with stands (and concessions) to make it happen.

The Vikings can hold scrimmages for the public at their outdoor mini-stadium since the weather is nice (albeit humid) in August.

Another reason why I thought leaving Flagstaff was a bad idea.

 

[kerouac9]

I've always thought the issue with holding training camp at the teams' facility is the heat. You'd really need some sort of climate-controlled venue with stands (and concessions) to make it happen.

The Vikings can hold scrimmages for the public at their outdoor mini-stadium since the weather is nice (albeit humid) in August.

Another reason why I thought leaving Flagstaff was a bad idea.

Heat, parking, ingress and egress. Hotel facilities that are NFL caliber (or, at least, Arizona Cardinals-caliber) near the training facility.

The Cards seem to break camp so early that it feels more like a PR thing than anything else. The event days are cool, but I can't imagine there are more than a few hundred fans for a public practice on, like, a Wednesday.

 

[GatorAZ]

A few recent college football facilities...

Texas A&M - 205 million
Alabama - 288 million
University of Colorado - 143 million
University of effing Cincinnati - 105 million

You can see where these guys are coming from about our facilities.

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Texas A&M burning thru money with zero results lol

 

[ajcardfan]

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Texas A&M burning thru money with zero results lol

They have a bottomless pit of money.

 

[PDXChris]

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[Cardsfaninlouky]

The article said they're building a new training facility, is it going to be new or just renovating the current one?

 

[PDXChris]

The article said they're building a new training facility, is it going to be new or just renovating the current one?

I noticed new construction behind Kyler at the Denver facility, so I'm pretending it's ours!

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[TruColor]

I noticed new construction behind Kyler at their facility, so I assumed thats it.

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That's the Broncos' facility

 

[Proximo]

I'm really interested in the mechanics of how this happens. The footprint of the Hardy Drive facility seems tiny compared to some of the other teams you see on, like, Hard Knocks or something. The Ravens have a winding drive through a gate into their facility, for example.

There's a break between mid-January and... August?... when you can relocate the office staff to UofP or somewhere offsite, maybe?

Yeah, I am wondering the same thing. I just don't think they have enough land to do it the right way at that spot.

 

[PDXChris]

That's the Broncos' facility

Noted! I mean, I can dream, right?

 

[unseenaz]

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The Bears, Vikings and soon to be Broncos have incredible practice facilities. There are legitimately high schools in Texas with bigger and more modern practice facilities than ours.

 

[oaken1]

That's the Broncos' facility

That's why he said "pretend "

 

[football karma]

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1. Mike sure loves his uber-mod architecture. I hope thats just a concept

2. I believe the Cards bought the site the Coyotes were after.

 

[Mainstreet]

The Cardinals have announced updated plans for a new training facility in 2028.

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