Dresden. It sounds like a premature April Fool’s joke: Dresden is examining the option of installing a super arena in the airport terminal for major concerts and Bundesliga-level sports. The vision: an airport arena with a capacity of up to 10,000 spectators.
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“Anyone who has visions should go to the doctor,” said the great social democrat Helmut Schmidt. Anyone who is working on a new lighthouse project in a time of tight budgets urgently needs psychotherapeutic support. Actually.
Large concerts are an economic factor
Dresden is a great city, a place of longing. But there’s one thing Dresden doesn’t have: a covered venue where the big names in the industry stop off. There are beautiful open-air stages. But as soon as the leaves fall and it gets cooler, the music plays in Cologne, Munich or Leipzig. Not on the Elbe. Large concerts are always an economic factor. Many visitors not only listen to their idols, but also book overnight stays and put money into the coffers of the tourism industry and retail.
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Dresden has a Margon Arena that is in the wrong place and is far too small for sports clubs that want to establish themselves in the Bundesliga like the basketball players from the Titans. Does it make sense to invest a good 40 million euros in a hall that doesn’t work and will never work? 40 million euros to increase visitor capacity from 3,000 to 3,600?
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Or would you rather spend X amount and build an airport arena that will catapult the city into the same league as Cologne, Berlin or Leipzig when it comes to event venues? Which means you can kill two birds with one stone: The “International Airport” in Klotzsche is an important economic factor, but leads a shadowy existence.
If you want to hear aircraft noise, you have to go to Leipzig, Frankfurt/Main or Munich; in Dresden the number of take-offs and landings is manageable. The airport arena would also be an opportunity to revitalize the airport.
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There are good reasons not to go to a psychotherapist but to pursue the Airport Arena project consistently. It would be an investment in the future of Dresden.
Have a good weekend,
Yours, Thomas Baumann-Hartwig
DNN
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