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Committee favors splitting coliseum and mixed-use solicitations after Hunden re-evaluation; renovation seen as lower-cost option
Summary
County staff reviewed a re-evaluation of options for the Dane County Coliseum that found renovating the existing arena could deliver similar event volumes at lower capital cost than a new build. The committee agreed to split the coliseum procurement from a separate mixed-use solicitation and to seek an owner's representative to help evaluate RFPs.
Kevin (director) briefed the committee on a re-evaluation of the Coliseum that the staff asked a consultant to perform to compare renovating the existing facility with building a new arena. Staff summarized three takeaways from the report: a renovated Coliseum would generate roughly the same number of events as a new facility at significantly lower capital cost; a renovation could generate sizable local economic impact; and renovation may be the prudent near-term approach.
Staff described the consultant's headline economic estimates: the report projects about $59 million in annual economic impact to Dane County under the renovation scenario and an average of about 141 full-time-equivalent jobs supported by that…
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