Vacation in Pennsylvania and Visit to NYC

I hate golf but i enjoy baseball, so there goes ur theory Javier

It's my dream to go to a baseball game next time i'm in the usa, but i'd rather go to Boston to catch a Red Sox vs Yankees game, so i can boo the crap out of the Yankees if i do that in NYC i wouldnt make it out alive

My theory is not perfected yet, and can be proven wrong.
But then again your not normal.

I guess I was wrong Carli. There will be hockey at the same arena starting Oct 27th - read the bold (by me) below.


SPORTS CONSTRUCTION (Article from Engineering News Record)
Bedeviled Newark Arena Readied To Open on Time

7/25/2007
By Nadine M. Post with Jack Buehrer

Steel erection continued while owner switched construction managers.
In its own way, construction of an 18,000-seat arena in Newark, N.J., mirrors the city’s troubled history, with one big exception. The city’s downtown revival is not only bumpy, it is long overdue. The $375-million arena is set to open on time for a concert on Oct. 25 and a hockey game on Oct. 27.Getting to the goal represents no small victory. Construction was delayed from the start, with a time-out from July to October 2005 so that archeologists could remove remains from an old cemetery on site. A lawsuit from opponents seeking to halt the city’s financing strategy impeded progress until early 2006. Then, in April 2006, with steel erection 20% complete, the construction manager, a joint venture of Bovis Lend Lease, New York City, and Hunt Construction Group, Indianapolis, left. That was the biggest blow.
The joint venture, which had been providing preconstruction services, could not come to terms with the owner. “We just didn’t feel comfortable because we weren’t pulling on the same team,” says Jeff Vanderbeek, chairman and managing partner of Devils Arena Entertainment, Newark. DAE, under the name of Devils Renaissance Development LLC, is providing $165 million toward the project, with the public Newark Downtown Core Redevelopment Corp. giving $210 million. DRD is responsible for design, construction and overruns. After 30 years, the city will own the arena.

Kathleen

is it just me or does the sentence: "Steel erection continued while owner switched construction managers"

make anyone else laugh?

No - but then I work is this business. The General Contractor would have contracted out for the steel work - so even though the construction managers changed, the steel work would have continued since the steel company worked for the General contractor not the construction manager.

There are so many layers of "management" these days it seems that actual workers get lost in the mis-management. The construction industry (in any country) is crooked as hell. It's kind of like politics - the person who gets the job is who you owe a favor to, not the most qualified.

Kathleen