I spent a few minutes Wednesday gazing into the downtown arena, and the progress that’s been made in six months is amazing.
If you look past the exterior pillars, you can see the seating areas taking shape as the Dondlinger & Sons crew continues work with a little less than two years to go. The progress will become less noticeable as work shifts inside in a year or so, but there’s already enough work done to see the completed Intrust Bank Arena in your mind’s eye.
Ron Holt, Sedgwick County’s point man on the arena, said the project’s timeline and financials are both on schedule, with the latter being more amazing than the former. Prices are on the rise, from steel to concrete and asphalt, and that’s “worry number one,” Holt said.