The City of Savannah will hold a news conference on Thursday, August 23 about the design phase of the new Savannah Arena project.

The conference is Thursday at 9:30 a.m. at City Hall.

“Pete Shonka, the Executive Director of Arena Development will announce how the public can provide feedback to the City and the arena design contractor Perkins + Will. The City will be soliciting input concerning the features and amenities inside and outside the new arena,” a City spokesperson says.

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Perkins + Will was recently awarded a nearly $9 million contract to provide the design of the new arena. The total cost of building the arena will be at least $120 million, with tens of millions more budgeted for road widening, drainage, parking, and other amenities not funded by the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax which is funding the arena itself.

This article appears in Aug 22-28, 2018.

2 replies on “City to ask public to “help shape” new Savannah Arena”

  2. Nine million just for a “design concept”? I just donated money to help replace the HVAC system at the Humane Society, which needed $30,000 plus for it. The entrance to the Eisenhower Road post office continues to have a pothole that is constantly under repair. Waters from DeRenne to Stephenson also is in need of repair. Trees should be planted in the Truman median wherever possible, not poisoned or mowed. Ditto all the entrance and exit ramps along it so that birds, bees, and butterflies have desperately needed food sources and we don’t have to pay for the manpower and gas needed to keep the mowers going. I could go on but why bother? It’s all bread and circuses for the great unwashed so that they will re-elect the self-serving and corrupt.

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