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Wednesday, October 26, 2005

"Dallas arena changes club seats to party suites"Vol.8 Issue 23 Oct. 10-16 by Jonathan Parknavy

Upon reading this article, it explained how American Airlines Center in Dallas has created two party suites for the large crowds for the Spurs, Stars and Mavricks games. These luxury party suites could generate up to $500,000 in revenue a season. The area's sales staff just started selling those suites in mid July after the schedules were released. These luxury boxes sell for $8,000 a game for the Dallas Stars NHLHockey team and $9,000 or $10,500 for the NBA basketball team the Mavericks.
I feel this is a good way to bring in that extra money for the fans that are willing to spend to see there favorite professional team. These suites seem great for business ejoyment or even simply fans willing to pay a crazy amount of money to "say" that they sat in those seats to watch a game. It is also pretty cool that these seats are a geat deal for what you are paying for to get your money's worth for that game. I feel that more facilities should do the same thing, just like Dallas to bring in the extra revenue. Hopefully,this new idea can lead to further expanding of arenas, bigger crowds or maybe even better suites or better club boxes for the sporting faciliities in other leagues.