Madison Square Garden Has 10 Years To Find New Location

July 26th, 2013

Kriston McConnell

Today I learned that an arena can be evicted, and forced to move somewhere else. Apparently that is the case for Madison Square Garden – they’ve been given 10 years to vacate and find a new location. To my surprise, this actually isn’t the first time the arena has had to move either. New York Times wrote a story on the eviction, and you can read a snippet of it by taking a look below the jump.

What are your thoughts on the news? Am I the only one who thinks it’s a little ridiculous to move an arena??

The New York City Council notified the arena that it has 10 years to vacate its 45-year-old premises and find a new home, the Garden’s fifth since it opened in 1879.

By a vote of 47 to 1, the Council voted to extend the Garden’s special operating permit for merely a decade — not in perpetuity, as the owners of the Garden had requested, or 15 years, as the Bloomberg administration had intended.

Ten years should be enough time, officials said, for the Garden to find a new location and for the city to devise plans for an expanded Pennsylvania Station, which currently sits below the Garden, and the redevelopment of the surrounding neighborhood.