[Moncton] Centre Avenir Centre | 26.65m |~6 Fl | Completed

[josh_cat_eyes]

Originally Posted by ryan93

With the very real possibility of sporting events having no fans in the arena for all of next season, I wonder how that will affect junior hockey? The NHL will be fine and obviously plans on going ahead with fan-less games as soon as they are given the green light to do so. With leagues like the AHL & major junior, where they are primarily gate drive , how will they be feasible?

I don’t even know if all the NHL teams will be fine. There is some teams really struggling at the gate as is is, and some teams like Arizona, have a lot of debt.

[Franco401]

Originally Posted by josh_cat_eyes

I don’t even know if all the NHL teams will be fine. There is some teams really struggling at the gate as is is, and some teams like Arizona, have a lot of debt.

The NHL is a TV-driven league. You know why "struggling" teams like Florida and Arizona didn't move ten years ago? Because local TV ratings are great (and also because it's unfair to judge the viability of a market when the team hasn't been good in a long time.

No NHL franchise that recently got it's hands on two consecutive franchise fees is going anywhere.

[MonctonRad]

Found on the Avenir Centre web site:

ASM Global Launches VenueShield Environmental Hygiene Program

Industry-leading protocols to provide trusted protection for the live experience when facilities across the globe begin to reopen and welcome guests back
(Los Angeles, CA, April 29, 2020) —

As local communities around the world consider reopening parts of their economies in the safest way possible, ASM Global, the world’s leading venue management and services company, today announced plans to launch a new environmental hygiene protocol in response to evolving guest expectations, stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. VenueShield, a comprehensive and best-in-class program, will be deployed at more than 325 ASM Global facilities around the world, providing the highest levels of cleanliness and safety, while inspiring consumer confidence, all in partnership with leading medical professionals, industry experts and public health officials.

“At the very heart of this effort is our focus on making our employees, tenants and guests safe and comfortable in a welcoming environment,” said Bob Newman, President and CEO of ASM Global. “ASM’s unique and unmatched worldwide footprint of leading convention centers, arenas, stadia and theaters provides the input, data and resources to adapt to our guests’ needs and expectations while further enhancing the quality of their experience in our venues.”

VenueShield will provide the most advanced hygienic safeguards that serve ASM Global’s clients, guests, staff, teams, talent and all other visitors. Protocols will vary based on the type of facility and will be further customized for each unique location. All policies will be aligned with - and informed by - public health authorities, medical and industry experts.

“We realize that each of our venues across the globe are economic engines for their respective communities, representing local tax revenues, travel revenues and jobs. We look forward to re-opening these local and regional economic foundations, stimulating local economies, and again delivering the entertainment experience that has defined us for decades.” Newman added.

ASM Global’s VenueShield Task Force will be implementing new protocols and procedures at its facilities, in accordance with international health care guidelines from the CDC, NHS, PHAA and WHO, among others. These extensive measures will explore the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), food safety measures, air quality control, surface cleaning, physical/ social distancing, temperature checks, thermal cameras, hand sanitizers, reduced touch points, contactless transactions, daily monitoring systems, and more.

The VenueShield protocol relies on the Task Force to build unique and customized programs, while monitoring data on a daily basis. Additionally, ASM has proactively partnered with and will further consult with leading subject matter experts, health officials and industry leaders in the areas of industrial hygiene, sanitization and fulfillment to consult on all facets of the VenueShield program. Specific consultants have been hired to assist with more technical aspects of the protocol like air purification, filtering and the maximization of fresh air exchange.

VenueShield will be the ongoing company effort to define the customer journey of the future. It is designed to provide an evolving approach to the unique aspects surrounding each of ASM Global’s facilities and is guided by consistent input from the company’s venue experts around the world, representing every venue type.

About ASM Global

ASM Global is the world’s leading venue management and services company. The company was formed by the combination of AEG Facilities and SMG, global leaders in venue and event strategy and management. The company’s elite venue network spans five continents, with a portfolio of more than 325 of the world’s most prestigious arenas, stadiums, convention and exhibition centers, and performing arts venues. From Aberdeen to Anchorage, and Sydney to Stockholm, its venues connect people through the unique power of live experiences.

ASM Global’s diverse portfolio of clients benefit from the company’s depth of resources and unparalleled experience, expertise and creative problem- solving. Each day, the company’s 61,000 passionate employees around the world deliver locally tailored solutions and cutting-edge technologies to deliver maximum results for venue owners and amazing experiences for guests. By consistently looking for new ways to envision, innovate and empower the spaces and places that bring people together, ASM Global elevates the human spirit while delivering the highest value for all stakeholders. For more information, please visit www.asmglobal.com.

[drewber]

Originally Posted by Franco401

The NHL is a TV-driven league. You know why "struggling" teams like Florida and Arizona didn't move ten years ago? Because local TV ratings are great (and also because it's unfair to judge the viability of a market when the team hasn't been good in a long time.

No NHL franchise that recently got it's hands on two consecutive franchise fees is going anywhere.

Might want to check your facts there. NHL is a gate driven League not tv driven. Very simple research could of confirmed that for you

[josh_cat_eyes]

Originally Posted by drewber

Might want to check your facts there. NHL is a gate driven League not tv driven. Very simple research could of confirmed that for you

Yeah it’s very gate driven. Almost entirely gate driven.

The reasoning doesn’t hold up when you look at Atlanta being moved. The only reason that Arizona didn’t move is because the NHL got invested in the team and wouldn’t let it move. Also the Coyotes did have a period of success not that long ago, so again the logic doesn’t ad up.

[tmacdougall]

NHL signed with Rogers, $436M/yr. for 12 years

NFL to collect $54.6 billion from TV contracts with FOX (runs from 2014-2022), CBS (2014-2022), NBC (2014-2022), ESPN (2014-2021) and DirecTV (2015-2022).

Originally Posted by josh_cat_eyes

Yeah it’s very gate driven. Almost entirely gate driven.

The reasoning doesn’t hold up when you look at Atlanta being moved. The only reason that Arizona didn’t move is because the NHL got invested in the team and wouldn’t let it move. Also the Coyotes did have a period of success not that long ago, so again the logic doesn’t ad up.

[Taeolas]

Originally Posted by josh_cat_eyes

Yeah it’s very gate driven. Almost entirely gate driven.

The reasoning doesn’t hold up when you look at Atlanta being moved. The only reason that Arizona didn’t move is because the NHL got invested in the team and wouldn’t let it move. Also the Coyotes did have a period of success not that long ago, so again the logic doesn’t ad up.

IIRC, one of the main reasons Arizona didn't move was because it was the focus of a hostile offer from the RIM owner, who didn't hide he fully intended to pull the team into Southern Ontario (either as a second Toronto team or a KWC team). So Bateman and the NHL owners dug in hard against it to fight it every means they had and then some; and basically quadruple downed on keeping the team in Arizona no matter how little sense it made.

Moving the Thrashers to Winnipeg was a lot easier since it was a friendlier offer and didn't really ruffle any feathers.

[JHikka]

The Thrashers didn't have any owners when they were sold to Winnipeg. It was either Winnipeg or the team folded.

The NHL doesn't relocate teams often because it affects their speculative value. Buyers are more willing to pay a higher price if teams aren't moving around every two or three years. Show a commitment to a market with a plan and people will pony up money for franchises.

The NHL did not move Arizona because they're committed to the market (like they are with every market) and moving shows a sign of weakness in the product. Phoenix is one of the fastest growing, largest metro areas in the US, with a vast ethnic community; the NHL isn't walking away from that.

Originally Posted by drewber

Might want to check your facts there. NHL is a gate driven League not tv driven. Very simple research could of confirmed that for you

You're incorrect. As two examples, the NYRangers had $270M in revenues in the last season and only $103M of that derived from gate receipts, and Calgary had revenue of $138M with only $62M of it derived from gate receipts. Teams can survive on short-term without fans in stands because a lot of their revenue is derived from commercial sponsorships and media agreements.

https://www.forbes.com/nhl-valuations/list/#tab:overall

Leagues like the CFL and CHL are vastly gate-driven and thus might not come out of COVID unscathed.

[David_99]

Arizona has been an absolute shit-shit for decades now. They were losing upwards for $35-40 million a year with the leagues lowest salary. The NHL was forced to buy them out of bankruptcy for $140M. Their continued existence was predicated on the city of Glendale paying the NHL $25M a year. The year Atlanta left, the NHL played chicken with the city. They were 15 minutes away from selling the team to True North, the current Jets owners. When the small city of Glendale ponied up the money, the NHL didn’t want to own 2 teams at the same time, so they sold the Thrashers to TrueNorth. After looking at the business numbers, no one wanted to touch the franchise with a 10 foot pole. Enter Anthony LeBlanc who “bought” the team from the NHL (with the original idea of playing up to 10 games a year in Saskatchewan). Anthony came in and demanded a new arena be built up the road, closer to the denser population. Glendale rebuffed as they were still paying off their 15 year old arena. They then agreed to pay him $15M/ year for 15years for the privilege of having him as “owner”. He then came back to the city and decided $15M wasn’t enough and lobbied to have an entertainment tax zone created around he area so he could collect more money. Yadda yadda yadda, he’s doing the same thing in Halifax now with the Schooners. No money down, have the city and the tax payers build him a stadium and pay for his ownership.

[JHikka]

Originally Posted by David_99

Arizona has been an absolute shit-shit for decades now. They were losing upwards for $35-40 million a year with the leagues lowest salary.

Key word here is 'were'. They were doing pretty well on most economic indicators prior to COVID relative to their previous history.

Originally Posted by David_99

The NHL was forced to buy them out of bankruptcy for $140M. Their continued existence was predicated on the city of Glendale paying the NHL $25M a year. The year Atlanta left, the NHL played chicken with the city. They were 15 minutes away from selling the team to True North, the current Jets owners. When the small city of Glendale ponied up the money, the NHL didn’t want to own 2 teams at the same time, so they sold the Thrashers to TrueNorth.

Yes and no. As I previously posted the Thrashers owners almost literally left the team with the NHL with nowhere to play and nothing really to do. TrueNorth had been floating around for a few years and we able to snatch up the Thrashers immediately.

Originally Posted by David_99

After looking at the business numbers, no one wanted to touch the franchise with a 10 foot pole. Enter Anthony LeBlanc who “bought” the team from the NHL (with the original idea of playing up to 10 games a year in Saskatchewan). Anthony came in and demanded a new arena be built up the road, closer to the denser population. Glendale rebuffed as they were still paying off their 15 year old arena. They then agreed to pay him $15M/ year for 15years for the privilege of having him as “owner”. He then came back to the city and decided $15M wasn’t enough and lobbied to have an entertainment tax zone created around he area so he could collect more money. Yadda yadda yadda, he’s doing the same thing in Halifax now with the Schooners. No money down, have the city and the tax payers build him a stadium and pay for his ownership.

Well, he was working on the Schooners project, until he decided to move to an NHL team that'll probably fire him in five months time, which should say a lot about the Schooners project as it stands today.

[David_99]

Originally Posted by JHikka

Key word here is 'were'. They were doing pretty well on most economic indicators prior to COVID relative to their previous history.

Good to know. I was following the "Phoenix Coyotes Saga" on a daily basis, on the Hockey Futures forum for a decade. I stopped following 3 years ago and haven't really paid any attention to the NHL since.

Yes and no. As I previously posted the Thrashers owners almost literally left the team with the NHL with nowhere to play and nothing really to do. TrueNorth had been floating around for a few years and we able to snatch up the Thrashers immediately.

Yes, the Thrashers owners basically "threw the keys on the desk" but Mark Chipman later admitted he was "15 minutes away" from buying the Coyotes from the NHL had Glendale not ponied up the money. The NHL would have had to move the Thrashers to the next best location, but as you said, that would have looked horrible on the league.

Well, he was working on the Schooners project, until he decided to move to an NHL team that'll probably fire him in five months time, which should say a lot about the Schooners project as it stands today.

Good news for Halifax. If the CFL survives, hopefully they can find a better ownership and finally get a team.

[jonny golden]

I'm not sure what they're doing, but there's some City of Moncton trucks at the plaza, and an excavator digging up the area just south of the oval. There's fencing and pylons and quite a few workers there. Maybe some sub-grade repairs to the ice making system?

[MonctonRad]

The big "R" from the signage on the top crown of the Avenir Centre is missing. It looks like it was ripped off, presumably in the big windstorm last week. For the time being, it is now the AVENI CENTRE

[homebody]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

The big "R" from the signage on the top crown of the Avenir Centre is missing. It looks like it was ripped off, presumably in the big windstorm last week. For the time being, it is now the AVENI CENTRE

When a project is completed, is it not supposed to be removed from the forum? Just wondering. The Avenir Centre is not the only thing that is completed, there are the projects that are finished as well.

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by homebody

When a project is completed, is it not supposed to be removed from the forum? Just wondering. The Avenir Centre is not the only thing that is completed, there are the projects that are finished as well.

No, not really. There is a repository for dead threads, and while old threads used to be removed from the forum in the past, that doesn't seem to occur any more.

Usually when a thread disappears, it just drops off the bottom of the page and is easy to find again if you adjust your search parameters. On the other hand, with the dead thread repository, you really have to know what you're doing to find the former thread and view it again.

It is not uncommon to see a thread resurrected, even after years, especially in the Canada section. You also see this all the time in the Halifax subforum too, where a thread in which nobody has posted anything on since 2017 suddenly comes to life again.

[homebody]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

No, not really. There is a repository for dead threads, and while old threads used to be removed from the forum in the past, that doesn't seem to occur any more.

Usually when a thread disappears, it just drops off the bottom of the page and is easy to find again if you adjust your search parameters. On the other hand, with the dead thread repository, you really have to know what you're doing to find the former thread and view it again.

It is not uncommon to see a thread resurrected, even after years, especially in the Canada section. You also see this all the time in the Halifax subforum too, where a thread in which nobody has posted anything on since 2017 suddenly comes to life again.

Thanks for the information .

[LewisVillis]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

The big "R" from the signage on the top crown of the Avenir Centre is missing. It looks like it was ripped off, presumably in the big windstorm last week. For the time being, it is now the AVENI CENTRE

The Aveni, Avidi, Avici Centre!

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by LewisVillis

The Aveni, Avidi, Aveci Centre!

et tu Brute?

Welcome to the forums!

[BlackYear]

I noticed something interesting as I drove through Canada street this past Saturday around 8pm. One, there was hardly any side street parking spots available on Canada st, Main st, and part of Highfield st. I thought, is there a hockey game on inside the Avenir C? Of course there was none. It was the shear amount of people at the outside skate park.

Two, the Hyatt / Carraba's back private parking lot seemed full, plus there was at least 4-5 vehicles within the front door Hyatt entrance with some cars idling.
There was even a few lights on in the Hyatt hotel rooms.

After picking up a bottle of Italian vino from NB Liquor, I decided to head back to this area via Main. As I approached the beehive corner (Highfield/Main), I turned left to go up Highfield st. I said this once and I'll say it again, the Hilton Garden Hill needs more lighting to brighten the front of this hotel. It's so dark and seems so unnoticeable. There zero activity going on there. I really hope they do something.

[MonctonRad]

According to MLA Greg Turner, the Avenir Centre holds the record in Canada this year (so far) with the largest audience attending a live sporting event. The most recent Wildcats game had 2278 fans in attendance (25% capacity). I wasn't there personally, and haven't gone to any games since we re-entered yellow phase, but maybe I'll go to the next game at the centre.