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The Port of Seattle in Pictures
I happen to be going for a bike ride last Thursday night and found myself right by the port at 6:15. The Seahawks had a game that same night that began at 7pm. Reported attendance was 66,000. Naturally, one would think this would be the worst scenario for the port and who knows how many […]
Take Action: Email your city council members today!!!!
As I’ve followed stadium financing deals for the last year, I was well positioned to investigate and understand all the key components of the SoDo Arena plan and would advise you to pass the MOU. I’ve read countless articles, studies and data on the proposed SoDo Arena from city and county council members, national experts, […]
47,000 is greater than 19,000
It seems like the Port’s concerns is one of the last major hurdles to approve the SoDo Arena. To be clear, they are not saying it shouldn’t be built there, they just want more time and studies on potential Port impacts. I am not going to get into the fact that they’ve had 5 months to determine the impact or share […]
Current state of Affairs of the Chris Hansen proposal
Well we are inching the closer to the City and County Council voting on the Hansen proposal and I thought I would sum up the current state of affairs. For the record, I am trying to be as objective as possible here but I know I can’t be since I would love for a hockey […]
Attendance Figures for the NHL
Below is a graph that shows the average attendance by market over the last 10 seasons. Here are some comments: Canada has dropped off the last couple years because of Ottawa 2008-09 thru 2010-11. They rebounded this year but when Winnipeg was added, it dropped the average since their building has a capacity just over 15,000. In the […]
Seattle Comps
Isolating on Metro population only I feel the following NHL cities are good comps for Seattle: Population and Value is in Millions. The value numbers and rank are based on Forbes published values at the beginning of the 2011-12 season. I think it is tough to think that Seattle can do as well as Detroit with the history […]
Segmenting for Analysis
I’ve consolidated some data across multiple facets of the business around hockey. Instead of analyzing by city size and conventional demographics, I’ve classified the teams into hockey market buckets…pretty subjective but hopefully you get the point. There are 4 groupings of teams: Canada US Hockey Market US Non-traditional South Canada, well that’s all the Canadian teams […]
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