April 2015 7
How Tukwila Stacks Up
Full disclosure: This is somewhat recycled content but wanted to update some of the maps I have done with the news from yesterday. Population As most of you know, the bulk of the population is located in Seattle and the East Side (Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Sammamish). The Tukwila site is roughly equal distance for the two locations. […]
Seattle Mayor Murray chimes in
Quick post this morning. I thought it was important to share this statement from Seattle Mayor Ed Murray. Great to see such a commitment from the Mayor’s office. It is going to get really noisy over the next couple months as I expect to hear from Chris Hansen and/or Victor Coleman over the next couple weeks […]
Tukwila plans start to emerge
As we have been hearing for a while now, Ray Bartozek is putting an alternative arena plan together in the Tukwila Area. Originally, the Tukwila site was thought to be at the Unified Grocers site just south of Boeing Field along the Light Rail line but based on Craig’s article, the site is off 405 […]
Bettman talks a little expansion in NYC presser
I caught a bunch of comments on twitter from Gary Bettman’s press conference this morning in NYC. He talked quite a bit about Expansion and Seattle so I wanted to share for the folks that might not be on twitter or may have missed it. There could be some follow up articles on some of these […]
Market viability?
A few weeks ago, the American City Business Journal (ACBJ) published an article about the most viable sports markets to add a franchise. There methodology was based on US Bureau of Economic Analysis Total Personal Income (TPI) for 2013 and team revenue data and average ticket prices of pro and big 5 college teams sports […]
NHL to Seattle Survey #3
Thanks for all of you that responded to the third NHLtoSeattle survey. Here are some of the more interesting points. Location of Respondents No surprise, a majority of responses came from the Greater Seattle Area with King County being the largest with over 50% of the responses. Purchasing Intent If we isolate just the people […]
Survey, Shirts & NHL Bracket Challenge
Just a quick note on some things going on right now. Survey I am once again conducting a survey and will be publishing the results in the next week or so. It is light weight and should take no more than 5 minutes to complete. Do me a solid and fill it out. Shirts By popular demand, I’ve […]
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