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Originally Posted by speedog
How many of BC Place's 200 days of use a year are events with attendees paying for seats in the stands and concessions being open for business?
McMahon in Calgary talks about how much usage that stadium gets but aside from the 10 or so Stampeder home games, it's just UofC Dino games, minor league football games, a few high school football games and practices for the Stampeders and Dino's and a handful of other oddball events.a. Of all of those stadium uses, concessions are only opened for the Stampeder and Dino games as well as sometimes a few high school games while seats in the stands are only sold for the Dino's and Stampeders.
That means the lights are on and a skeleton staff is still there for the majority of the McMahon's uses but it most likely isn't making any money. I wonder if the same could be said of BC Place's 200 uses in a year?
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Sure, the marketing department of any venue is going to maximize their usage number any way they can. But, I can't see a BC place sized venue getting a lot of free/subsidized community use, especially if McMahon can stay as is, or take on the field-house role.
As for the concession thing, yeah it's good revenue, vital even. Wonder how revenues for sporting events would compare with a day of conference use?
While you might not sell any hyper-inflated concession food on skeleton staff days, many of them will grab lunch or drinks after work somewhere in the neighborhood, so the stadium is still a good thing for establishments in the area.
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