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Originally Posted by Macindoc
More than 20 million people live in the New York metropolitan area, enough to fill an arena with concerts and other major events every night the Islanders aren't playing. That's more than twice the number of major events the Saddledome hosts. So it would have more than twice the revenue from ticket sales, parking, and concessions. A facility that is in use almost all of the time makes much more money than one that is empty more than half of the time, in spite of similar costs.
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How much if any more money? No offence but I really think your smoking KKC (Ken King Crack)
There are 2 other arena's within 20 or so minutes of Belmont to share with and 20 million people means little to a stadium that holds 20k, this isn't Manhattan or even the Bronx it's Long Island which is mostly considered the outer "burbs" of NYC where most of those 20 million you speak of have never visited. I've been to the Belmont Stakes twice, the area is like Killarney or Haysboro with a big bad ass racetrack in the middle!
15 minutes away from Belmont is the newly renovated Nassau Coliseum, including intercollegiate hockey and minor pro basketball it has a grand total of 9 events booked for January. Another 20 minutes away in Brooklyn(not a burb) is the current home of Islanders, the Barclays has 19 events for January and this includes the 7 NBA Nets games.
The Saddledome is booked for 14 events in January, it's a money machine now even know it's inside Stampede Parks gates, if a new arena with no competition in downtown Calgary doesn't make as much as an arena in the "burbs" of NY with competition there's something seriously wrong with the management of CSEC period.