I'll go for a roller derby rink - for the Adelaide Roller Derby season 2013.

Give it to a sport on the rise !

A few years ago the site was prime land for small business blocks, but the horse has bolted

Other options?
AEC?

There are very few options , due to State Govt. restrictions . It can't be used as an entertainment or convention centre , only for sport.
It makes a bit of a loss then , and makes it hard to sell.

You would think this year is safe I guess, if they have a lease i'm sure they cant just kick them out.

correct on the lease.

but after that???

Restrictions lifted last sale

If we want the 36 ers to survive, we all need to buy a season ticket now and support the club

BSA ........what next can go wrong.......

Basketball In every other state going forward, new stadiums, better structure .

Sure , some have more kids , but they seem to get better funding

Restrictions lifted last sale

If we want the 36 ers to survive, we all need to buy a season ticket now and support the club

BSA ........what next can go wrong.......

Basketball In every other state going forward, new stadiums, better structure .

Sure , some have more kids , but they seem to get better funding

Paradise church are sniffing around I hear?

Restrictions are still in place which also negates use as a church

if the church buy that might not be that bad, i'm sure they could work some due use thing out. They only need sunday and some afternoons i would guess. Bball in the mornings and wed/fri/sat/sun other times. Would it not really just be a big function hall for them?

Hopefully the state buy it on the cheap and rent back but i doubt.

Thinking Apollo might be the perfect size now??

Maybe trade venues!

God there is good money in god

Apollo is no more, of course. It is a housing estate.

if the church buy that might not be that bad, i'm sure they could work some (dual) use thing out.

Surely the NBL would be worried about this?
Would they let the stadium be bought by a church who would kick out the Sixers leaving them to probably play games at...Wayville???
Would not be a good look for the NBL if one of the oldest and more successful teams is playing out of Wayville. I would assume we wouldn't be getting any televised games anymore!!!

Would be playing out of AEC. Like most other NBL teams.

Lightning would need to play out of Wayville.

hopefully not the AEC its crap for BB,

and a quick look at there upcoming events for next 12 months plus,

there would be no games on fri,sat occasional sunday,
most would need to be mon,tue or thurs games.


hopefully this season is safe, i'm sure it is

but after that lets hope for some good news as i think the AEC would have our crowds instantly

Have was meant to be Half :/

The resale of the property will have to keep its current tenants for the term they are signed for, and with any stipulations agreed too. Who knows, maybe the churchies will come fill the stadium on game day

It is my understanding that the SOS group have or had first option of purchasing the premises if/and/when the building was for sale.

I know that the purchase of the building was considered a few years ago. One (former) member told me the quote from the quantity surveyor to accurately assess the value of the building was $30,000.

I think ideally, any restrictions would be lifted so that it would be of maximum value to a buyer, but that our two professional basketball teams be given priority access.

Could Adelaide United and the 36ers share the stadium? Plenty of room outside for soccer training. Could share a gym/indoor training facilities?

Where would you locate the gym? The oval is a separate property isn't it? I think the only advantage for a soccer club might be for indoor short-distance running and movement/spacing training?

$30,000 for the building Jack...........I agree there is a lot of repairs that need to be carried out but I'd say the improvement value would be a coinsiderably more than $30k.

Jake, that's not $30,000 for the building. That is $30,000 for someone to spend time looking at the site to tell someone how much it is worth.

They did have a Gym operating from the Mark Davis room at one point. Think it was EFM running it. So the room is there.

But certainly additions would need to be built to accommodate Adelaide United, but could work out a lot cheaper than building from scratch at the Parks. Is it the same council area too?

The government loves to through money at Soccer, so It could be a plausible way to keep the dome.

Make two sports happy for a little more than the price of one?

Correct. Invest in those facilities and also make it an elite youth training centre for the two sports when the pro clubs arent using the gym, rehab pool etc. Very common model in Vic now.

Maybe the CBA will retain the dome but change the name from the Adelaide Arena to the CBA Can.

Instead of recruitiing Gibbo we could source an import that has a trade so they can fix the toliets as part of their contract.

I know a venue you could play some games at. Couple of your new players should be pretty comfortable there too :)

How many members in the SOS group now? I was told it is only one person now and someone else said it was 2-3 owners, does anyone know?

Anon, the paper doesn't give said writer the space. Get used to newspapers not giving a shit about basketball in Australia as it's just how it is these days. I think we're lucky Boti even has a job the way the media is going.

This minor fiasco is the by-product of private ownership which is a winner when the the sport is a significant player and money spinner for sponsors. But, here in the Antipodes, a sport with a profile akin to a terrorist organisation needs managing body support to survive and operate effectively.

The here today, gone tomorrow clubs of the NBL are turn offs to Australian punters and Basketball Oz needs to understand that.Governing state bodies need to own and operate the various teams to solidify the support that exists and grow the support they need.Stability is needed not a new team or another vanishing one. Basketball needs a history, tradition, not the flash in the panititis that exists now where Brisbane fans et al are left wondering if they were just another 'Rams' experiment.

The sport itself in South Australia needs to be more up front about participation rates at district level because first impressions are, that basketball is health and should be vibrant.With the women, the contrary is true with many clubs not having the troops to send to the front.Too many clubs are duplicating and triplicating their playing numbers with the same faces playing at 18, 23 and senior women.

The crisis is not the stadium it's the game itself.

Regardless of what happens with the Arena, its a purpose built complex and can only be used for that purpose. If CBA sell it, someone else needs to buy it for the purpose of basketball. Surely it makes no difference who your landlord is as far as continuation of use of that facility goes. Surely the rent would not go up considerably either making it unaffordable to rent because the owners only have a limited market to rent it to. The stadium is there to be used for basketball regardless of who owns it. If the land is contaminated, then purchasing this property rules out any re development of the land. That's the way I look at it.

We would all be better off if the owner of the 36ers who is probably losing close to $1M per year were to spend $5M on buying the Arena/Powerhouse/Dome and spends another $3M to upgrade the facility that cannot hope to make its running costs back in any future year.

Not sure what is in it for them though.

The Powerball has jackpotted to 30 million.

Perhaps the winner can inject some of the winnings into the game.

Stuck in a hard place for any buyer if the restrictions remain.

The government should have kept it for themselves before selling it to eddy.Lift the restrictions and it could have hosted small events and 36ers.
Would have been much cheaper then the 50mill spent on the entertainment cent upgrades.

Powerball is 50 million big ones next week,if i win the jackpot i will buy & upgrade the arena-I assume that would allow Magic access to full district member status.

Anon #371941

BSA Stadium Manager for the Powerhouse (currently known as Adelaide Arena)

PS - when will sporting organisations realize how much brand value they lose when they (let a sponsor) change the name of their playing venue? It's akin to changing the club's name every time you get a new sponsor, which isn't done for exactly that reason.

I can't help but think there might be more media interest in the story if the venue was still identified with the 36ers, as it was when it first opened. However, repeated name changes have disconnected the two brands in the public's eye.

I'm also curious that no-one has commented on the potential for loss of the Brett Maher Court to the 36ers' use. That may be a lever that would excite public engagement and interest in making sure that the 36ers continue to play at the venue, regardless of the ownership outcome.

Sorry - my misreading of BSA web site re Daniel Hughes' employer.

10 news said sixes had meeting today and seeked to confirm security for next season and did not get it. Told CBA aid to get most $$$ thats not great. Only thing I question is if next season is next year or the coming season.

This is the time for basketball's hierarchy to work together to buy the stadium.

Basketball has had the Australian flag bearer 2 out of the last 4 Olympic games. In the governments eyes, no body owes basketball anything.

As I recall the last time the liquidater was on the premises trying to recover $5M , there's interest in it , until buyers find out about all the restrictions
then its not worth buying it .

That's it , if ya can have a concert or so there
you might get your $5m for it , but it'll go very cheap .

New email from the club did not sound positive at all. How do you just not recognise a lease agreement?

Let's all threaten to pull our deposits with the Commonwealth Bank if they don't recognise the lease.

Banks at the moment need every deposit they can get with funding markets being so tight right now and pulling deposits, even from a few thousand customers hurts. It may even hurt enough that the potential loss on the arena will hurt them less than a loss of deposits.

Can someone today with time (I’m at work) start a petition (with real commonwealth customers which I am one for my business) threatening to pull deposits if the 36ers are priced out of the Arena. This is where people power can actually work.

at the moment the Dome represents .002% of CBA's annual profit

i like your moxy but doubt it will do anything to tarnish the CBA

Skip made mention on Twitter of an idea to start a campaign based on CBA's CAN advertising. e.g., "CommBank, are you saying we can't play basketball at Adelaide Arena?"

Paradise church have no intention of buying it, it was just a publicity stunt or marketing ploy to offset negative publicity recently. They are not at capacity at all!! and they could not afford it.

surely BSA could play some Friday night division 1 games there??