ELMONT, N.Y. — New York Islanders coach Barry Trotz surveyed the skeletal confines of UBS Area, scheduled to open in November as his group’s new dwelling.
He might inform the sight strains across the rink can be good. His ideas on find out how to make the world extra player-friendly had been applied. But it surely was a big terrace within the higher deck, situated behind one of many targets, that caught his consideration.
“They have the top zone there that is going to have a European [stadium] contact. Hopefully they’re going to have the flags [surrounding] the massive bar the place the followers can stand and watch,” Trotz mentioned.
That terrace overlooking the ice is one in every of 10 bars deliberate for UBS Area, the centerpiece of a $1.5 billion development venture that is ongoing in Elmont, New York. Anybody with a ticket to an Islanders sport can stand, mingle and cavort because the gamers skate under them. One other bar terrace has a view of a wholly completely different sports activities terrain: the grassy paddock space at Belmont Park racetrack, which is situated immediately subsequent to the Islanders’ new enviornment and impressed a lot of its aesthetics.
“Every thing that you simply see at the united statesArena is designed to suit into the historic facade of the Belmont Park racetrack,” mentioned Tim Leiweke, CEO of Oak View Group, the agency that is overseeing development of the world. “We needed to honor the historical past and custom of it, and the final 100 years of sports activities and tradition in New York.
“[NHL commissioner] Gary Bettman’s fondest dream is to have a Stanley Cup sport within the afternoon, after which have the Belmont Stakes after it.”