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Old Posted Feb 24, 2012, 8:56 PM
J. Will J. Will is offline
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How many new parking spaces will be needed? It’s doubtful that fans from Bellevue paying $100 for a ticket will be taking the bus in.
Why not? The Toronto Maple Leafs have the most expensive tickets in the NHL, nearly twice what New York Rangers fans pay, yet few people drive to the games. The AVERAGE ticket price was $114 as of 2010, and the subways and trains are packed with people attending the games.

And even if everyone drove, I don't see why they would need any new parking spaces. People can park in the existing spaces that office workers use during the day. Toronto and Vancouver both have hockey arenas and footballs stadiums almost adjacent to each other in their downtowns, and the amount of public parking spaces within walking distance of them declines every year as surface parking lots give way to new condo towers. There is no reason to build any new spaces for a downtown stadium/arena.

As for actually getting NBA/NHL teams, who knows? Neither league looks like it will expand in the next 10 years, so they would almost certainly have to be relocations. Kansas City built a fancy new downtown arena to attract new teams and it hasn't worked.

Last edited by J. Will; Feb 24, 2012 at 9:08 PM.
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