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Wednesday, October 26, 2005

DALLAS ARENA CHANGES CLUB SEATS TO PARTY SUITES v8 issue23 by Brooke VanBuskirk



For the past two years the American Airlines Center in Dallas have had people calling to to get suites for 50-60 people. The only thing wrong with that was that the center only had suites to fit 32 people. Now they have two party suites that fit up tp 60 people. The Stars have only had a couple games and both of the boxes are reserved for 25 ports events. The boxes sell for $8,000-10,500 epending on what team is playing. The price includes the tickets, 15 parking passes and foor and beverage packages.

I think this is a great way to make money. Now people don't have to reserve two rooms and be seperated. This will be great for company packages and things like that. For 60 people to go to the game it would cost about $6,000 anyhow, so they might as well add their parking tickets, a suite, food, and drinks to that too. I feel that if it keeps selling the boxes and makes a lot of money, than other arena's will follow them.