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Especially in the immediate area of the rink! But parking and access is difficult here. You can't seriously believe that two teams worth of players are going to ride a bus to this location every hour all day Saturday and Sunday. What if they play Armstrong, or State College? Look, its a cool building and I'm really happy for new ice in the area. I just have concerns about how well it will work, I hope I am wrong on it. To that end, it's worth noting that Led Zeppelin once played a concert in this building. Surely those people had to park, too. Although they didn't have to carry equipment several blocks.

So why bother if it's too much trouble? Why do the Penguins need to look good in the community? The people this is meant for aren't the ones buying tickets to Pens games!

It's real simple. Just follow the money. In the end, the Western PA taxpayers will have paid and the machine will have somehow bled another rock dry. Think...... URA purchased the building. Where doe the URA get their funding? Penguins Foundation, where do they get their funding?

The neighborhood is a dense residential neighborhood with narrow streets and no open space. They have trouble parking for the businesses already in the area. Even if they were to put parking under the roof, which had been an early rumor, the local street grid probably can't support the kind of traffic two teams playing every hour or so would generate. It's not a problem they can easily address.