I saw a Bear game in Seattle when the Kingdom came down and they were building a new stadium. I had seats schedule for the Kingdom along the fifty yard line. They switched the game to Huskie Stadium (Washington's college stadium) and stuck us in the last few rows behind the pillars. I looked around the stadium and saw nobody in the first thirty rows all along the stadium. They must have messed up transferring the tickets. So we all went down and sat about 25 rows up on the fifty yard line.dplank wrote: ↑Mon May 24, 2021 7:28 pmI happened to be in town the day they imploded the old Kingdome, that was pretty wild.Grizzled wrote: ↑Mon May 24, 2021 5:41 pm Back when I was living in Seattle, Safeco was constructed. It cost approximately $517 million to build. The team kicked apprximately $145 million. The rest was publicly financed publicly through the issuing of bonds, which have been retired. There is a tax on each ticket sold to any event at the stadium and a tax on parking at the garage which was used until the bonds were paid off and is now used for maintenance. There was a tax instituted on hotel/motel rooms and rental cars also to retire the bonds. The stadium is publicly owned and the Mariners pay annually on a lease. With the amount of land at AH, much could be sold/leased to businesses for stores, restaurants, bars etc. which can operate year-round.
Only Bear game I saw in Seattle where the Bears won. Experienced a lot of losses up there sad to say. I'll be up there again this year. We'll change that trend!
