Stadium Discussion
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It really looks spectacular.
Any interesting nuggets from this town hall event?
Any interesting nuggets from this town hall event?
That's a lot of solar on the roof, which is great. I wonder why they aren't filling out the open space after Etihad Park and before New York City FC.
What's with all the grey in the mosaic?
The Town Hall was really interesting. Was only maybe 50 people, if even that many. Was at the Etihad Park Experience Center in midtown, conveniently around the corner from a Shake Shack. Several conference rooms, a weird J-shaped entrance to the room where the presentation was, and presumably a pair of every type of seat the stadium will have. The J-shaped room had an almost floor to ceiling video screen that went down the leg of the J and then continued around the corner. Was pretty impressive. The video was maybe a minute-long promo piece, and they kept on “airlocking” small groups of people before they let them into the main room.
And then the first thing you see is the stadium model, which was amazing. There was also a bar, with wine and sodas, and some snack types of hors d’oeuvres, and there were two guys dressed completely in black walking around with small trays of finger foods as well. Was both weird and cool. After about an hour of mingling and oohing and aahing at the model they had the talk, for just under an hour. It was CEO Brad Sims and COO Jennifer O’Sullivan, hosted by Ian Joy (!). You had to submit two questions in advance, and the one of the first ones was one I submitted, although to be fair it could have been asked by several people, but I wanted to know if there was the possibility of tours of the stadium once it was in a safe enough condition for it and they said they were definitely going to plan for something of that nature. Other questions were about fan experience and culture, that sort of thing. Sadly nobody asked about the food though, and I forgot to ask as well. They said construction was on schedule, and depending on how the winter goes the stadium should open on time, although with the schedule change they weren’t sure if they would be ready for the short season or not. TBD. Also, afterwards I asked Jennifer O’Sullivan about a possible women’s team and she said they were definitely interested in that further down the road.
Bottom line is that it was fun. By “town hall” I was expecting 400 people in an auditorium but it was just a bunch of folks in an apartment-sized room. I’m typing this on my iPad and it’s not letting me add photos but I plan on dropping some in later on.
Oh, and one thing Brad Sims mentioned several times is that the seats are right on top of the field, and that they had the upper deck at the maximum angle allowed by MLS so everyone would feel close to the action. But he did caution that fans in the top row should maybe not be partying as hard as possible LOL.
And then the first thing you see is the stadium model, which was amazing. There was also a bar, with wine and sodas, and some snack types of hors d’oeuvres, and there were two guys dressed completely in black walking around with small trays of finger foods as well. Was both weird and cool. After about an hour of mingling and oohing and aahing at the model they had the talk, for just under an hour. It was CEO Brad Sims and COO Jennifer O’Sullivan, hosted by Ian Joy (!). You had to submit two questions in advance, and the one of the first ones was one I submitted, although to be fair it could have been asked by several people, but I wanted to know if there was the possibility of tours of the stadium once it was in a safe enough condition for it and they said they were definitely going to plan for something of that nature. Other questions were about fan experience and culture, that sort of thing. Sadly nobody asked about the food though, and I forgot to ask as well. They said construction was on schedule, and depending on how the winter goes the stadium should open on time, although with the schedule change they weren’t sure if they would be ready for the short season or not. TBD. Also, afterwards I asked Jennifer O’Sullivan about a possible women’s team and she said they were definitely interested in that further down the road.
Bottom line is that it was fun. By “town hall” I was expecting 400 people in an auditorium but it was just a bunch of folks in an apartment-sized room. I’m typing this on my iPad and it’s not letting me add photos but I plan on dropping some in later on.
Oh, and one thing Brad Sims mentioned several times is that the seats are right on top of the field, and that they had the upper deck at the maximum angle allowed by MLS so everyone would feel close to the action. But he did caution that fans in the top row should maybe not be partying as hard as possible LOL.
Well my first thought was more room for advertising LOL
But my second and third thoughts are maybe more reasonable. Second thought was they needed that space under the roof for HVAC piping, but my third thought, possibly the most reasonable one, is that the amount of panels they have is enough to power the whole stadium so they didn’t need more. Don’t really know though.
It looks unfinished, like maybe attendees each go to add a tile or something.
I assumed it was your 3rd thought. But I also wondered if they could get credit back for over production and why not take advantage of that?
That was my impression as well. Also, another thing brought up during the discussion was that the goal of the 15% premium seating is in a sense to subsidize the remaining 85% of the "normal" seating. Not sure how much actual truth there is to this but they said several times that they're trying to limit the total amount of corporate seating while at the same time keeping the prices down for the general seating areas.
I love this narrative. It allows them some public relations cover whenever these astronomical premium seating prices leak, and keeps fans engaged in the process thinking that regular joe tickets will be a relative bargain.
That of course assumes that fans buy into the argument that regular ticket prices will be dictated by anything other than how much the market will allow them to charge. I'm assuming most fans know that the only real impact the premium prices will have on regular tickets is the small change in demand for higher end regular seats by people who decide to trade down from the premium tiers.
The cheapest seat at Yankee is 40-50 a game no? It’s not gonna be less! That’s 1k a season one has to assume they’re gonna start at what 1500?
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The cheapest now is $40-45 for the cheapest games, but those tickets are $70 for the more expensive games if you're not a STH.
I am hoping the cheap games won't be above $60, and the expensive games won't be above $80. I'm sure I'll be disappointed.
I'm definitely not in then cheapest seats, though not far off I'm sure. My seats come out to $49/match for next season. (Including an 18th match for Leagues Cup.)
I'm in the top row of 224, so not the best seats but not the cheapest seats. Not a bad location as I'm almost exactly on the center line at Yankee Stadium (and above the home bench at Citi Field). My average is just over $46 per match. Most are either $34 each or $40 each. Red Bulls are $79, LAFC is $91, and Miami is $104. (Face values are $47, $56, $100, $128, and $215.)
This is going to be close. The suspense is delicious.
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