Surely you don't mean to say that 45 city blocks of empty surface lots is insufficient acreage for an "urban" arena? Because that would mean you're deliberately ridiculous.
By comparison, Verizon Center in DC [[which, by the way, has a loading dock) takes up four city blocks, and when it was built, had a hell of a lot more buildings [[and a large subway station) adjacent to its site than Ilitch's Hockey Mall.
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