interferes with salmon migration. Need a fish ladder thru the visitor's locker room....and fish sticks at the upper concession stand
Oh wow. Over the Willamette? Falls underneath? My god, what a brilliant, never-before-conceived idea. Thank you so much for your totally helpful sarcasm — I had no idea that suggesting a dramatic riverfront arena meant I was actually proposing a floating space station powered by bald eagle tears. But since we’re doing this — no, genius, not over the Falls like some Bond villain lair. Beside them. Above the banks. Like every other sane, breathtaking arena next to a natural wonder — Red Rocks, Salzburg’s Festspielhaus, hell, even PNC Park in Pittsburgh managed to not collapse into the Allegheny. It’s honestly a miracle the Festspielhaus ever got built. Wagner wrangled Bavarian mad king money, the whole thing was basically an opera cult headquarters, and yet somehow we got one of the most acoustically perfect, myth-soaked performance halls in human history. Now imagine trying that under Nate Bishop’s leadership. “Uh actually, the hill has squirrels, and the locals might be startled by music…” Under his watch, we’d have no Parsifal, no Brunnhilde, no over-the-top 14-hour Gesamtkunstwerk to make Germans cry into their steins. Engineers in 2025 can build retractable roof stadiums in hurricane zones and lift entire airports — I promise they can handle a steel-and-concrete bowl near a historic set of basalt cliffs. The Grand Ronde own the land, the access off 99E is right there, and you'd have the first major American sports arena with an actual goddamn waterfall framed behind the backboard. So thanks again for the snark — but next time, maybe hold the smug and bring some respect. We’re trying to dream here, not build a parking lot in Gresham.
Disagree.... you can't see shit in the Willamette.... well... you can literally see shit but the water is not clear at all. The view of the falls would be way cooler!
