The Eagles at BOK

[sgrizzle]

Channel 8 ran the same story.

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

Channel 8 ran the same story.

As well as the Assistant GM of the building saying as much (which he was probably quoted from the Channel 8 story).

[shadows]

Not wanting to be a naysayer but if the people are returning back down town in the numbers that are being posted then the "rebuilding of downtown" may bring the business back that left some decades ago.   It was not long ago when we could have horse racing on Saturday night down main street without interfering with the ghostly crowds of the '50s-'60s.

The main interest is calculating what is the cost of opening the arena each night that there is a booking.   With the retail sales in a downward skid the last two months it can cause less sales taxes which are to use to pay off the revenue bonds, used to build the arena as revenue..  

It is all new now but as FB pointed out it can become a liability to the city budget as the revenue pledged (with the interest) will continue regardless of the seats being vacant.  There are rumors that the total cost was greater than estimated.   Has anyone come up with the final cost?

The back-to-back schedules posted indicate that Hockey fans would need to outnumber those who supported the Football team before they left town.

Is it like a Christmas present, unopened from the working poor?  

RM; the greater the lighting the darker the shadows.

[RecycleMichael]

Sorry shadows...you don't have enough information to make a sound opinion. Have you been to the new arena? Did you see all the own-of-town cars at last night's show?

Did you see all the new jobs that the arena has created for the working poor?

No matter how much you and friendly bear want the arena to fail, so far you have been completely wrong. Go ahead and speculate without knowledge...maybe you can come up with some far-fetched analogy to entertain the readers who laugh at your posts.

[shadows]

Sgrizzle posted;  According to Tulsa Today, the Eagles wanted a warm room and required the A/C turned off a day in advance.
______________________________________________

If that statement is true then the operators of the arena need to be replaced before the city is looking for another 7.1 Million to settle a class action suit as that would be quite a health hazard for a gathering of thousands of people in a confined area without proper circulating of stale air.   .

[shadows]

RM:  I live in the real world where a dollar calculator can come up with a square root solution before you can write it on a piece of paper.

The winners in the construction of these projects are those who buy the revenue bonds, issued  on the anticipation that a future generation will pay them off or they will ruin the city's credit rating,   The interest earned on such bonds are not taxable so you think who buys them?  Those who promote these projects?   Huh?