The plan would have an apartment and entertainment complex built on nine acres surrounding Memorial Coliseum and install the Corpus Christi Ice Rays as an anchor tenant for the arena.
The future of 5,400-seat Memorial Coliseum, which opened in 1953 in downtown Corpus Christi, is under debate as the city council debates development plans for the arena site and surrounding land.
The leading plan from Brass Real Estate would have an apartment and entertainment complex built on nine acres surrounding Memorial Coliseum and install the Corpus Christi Ice Rays as an anchor tenant for the arena. There are plenty of critics of this plan: it would jam a lot of development on a small site and take away the Ice Rays as a tenant for city-owned American Bank Center.
Still, for a bayfront site that's considered to be one of the most desirable development areas in the city, the plan from the San Antonio developer is pretty ambitious. And we'd love to see the renovation of a low-hung, classic 1950s arena. The issue is whether Corpus Christi public officials are ready for such ambition.
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