With Construction Underway, Nets Market Barclays Center Suites
by Net Income on Apr 20, 2010 2:47 PM EDT
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The ceremonial ground breaking was last month and the actual excavation began this week. So, the Nets are now marketing the 100+ suites they will build around the Barclays Center bowl. Specifically, the Nets have bought ads atop New York City taxis. For four weeks through May 5, 200 of the city's yellow cabs will carry the ads, which read "Your Home Away from Home."
Brett Yormark told the Times the Nets are aiming finding buyers for smaller, less expensive suites in the Barclays Center that will cost about $250,000 a year. They hope attract small business owners from Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. The campaign will be most visible on top of the cabs, but the team is also pushing the suites through outdoor advertising, business lunches with prospective buyers and direct mailings. Total cost: high six figures.
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I guess the "luxury" suites are what make arenas make money
…and I’ve never attended a game in one, but MAN, what kind of luxury is that, way way up from the court, a HD TV screen on the wall? I know, it’s for people who want the game as a backdrop to their party. I’d sure rather be in a seat.
The suites...
…..are for those of us rich folk who don’t like to mingle with you commoners. That way, we can drink top shelf liquor and dabble in designer drugs in a more comfortable setting instead of the front row, where we’d have to drink watered down beer and go to the bathroom to “do our thing” like the rest of you land lovers.
Where do I send my down payment?
"No one stands on the top of the world. Not you, not me, not even gods. But the unbearable vacancy of the throne in the sky is over. From now on...I will be sitting on it."
by MrDollarBills on Apr 20, 2010 4:44 PM EDT up reply actions
Lol it's like at citifield during mets games
the camera will zoom into people in the boxes drinking wine and eating dinner. Like seriously? you’re at a baseball game drinking wine? Can’t you do that at home?
And to top off their greatest season yet the new jersey nets scored 86 points...in double overtime. yes a professional basketball team only mustered 86 points in 58 minutes of basketball.
Don't get me started on Citifield
I give the mets credit for trying to make it more fan friendly this season, but overall I still feel like it wasn’t made for the average fan. As far as the Nets go I wouldn’t bank on corporate america ponying up the cash for suites
the math
The IZOD has 28 suites, the fewest of any NBA arena. The Rock has 76 suites. Barclays Center will have 104.
The Rock has the largest suites of any arena in North America. I went to a couple of college games there and sat in a suite. Quite roomy and there must have been 20 people there.
but wouldnt it be much better to be in the 14th row
screaming away? It seems like watching from a suite is like staying home and watching on TV.
You are really hurting your own Case
The Newark arena has 76 of these “wonderful” suites that are so vital to an NBA arena and yet you still think the Nets need ANOTHER brand new arena that will cost a billion dollars in a city that already has an NBA team so they can add 28 more suites? Come man give it up already. be happy the Nets have this new facility to play in and stop being so greedy and encouraging others on this site to think the same way.
I aint paying for the billion dollar arena
but I am EXTREMELY happy that the Nets will be playing in the world’s most expensive arena. Me being greedy is truly weird. I own no stake in the team, the arena, Atlantic Yards, etc.
I am also happy that with only one other NBA arena under construction—the Amway Center in Orlando—Barclays Center is likely to be the newest arena in the NBA for several years.
Finally, I am just happy.
At taxpayer's expense
Keep in mind that neither Ratner or Proky will be paying for this, the taxpayers that live in the state of NY will.
by Tal Barzilai on Apr 20, 2010 11:54 PM EDT up reply actions
so were citifield and yankee stadium.
nearly every stadium built is at tax payers expenses.
And to top off their greatest season yet the new jersey nets scored 86 points...in double overtime. yes a professional basketball team only mustered 86 points in 58 minutes of basketball.
This is what Yormark was hired for
create buzz, and market the brand.
It’s just a pain that the Brooklyn move didn’t happen sooner. He did the best he can, while the Nets were still in the Meadowlands.
These suites are definitely a money maker. Once sold, it’s a guaranteed money for the season.
There are people who’ll pay for those, and it’ll be nice to be associated or acquainted with them.
LOL @ 250,000 a year
down here in Georgia that will get you about a 4,200 sq foot house less than ten years old on a golf course.
Also meh, I’m decidedly less excited about a possible move if the rest of the front office is going to maintain status quo, which it seems like it might. More money doesn’t mean anything if they’re still spending it poorly.
And to top off their greatest season yet the new jersey nets scored 86 points...in double overtime. yes a professional basketball team only mustered 86 points in 58 minutes of basketball.
Agree
Doesn’t mater how state of the art the Barclay’s is, If the team makes bad decisions the team will still be a laughing stock
It's more than just the Nets
If you buy a suite you get the full slate of events at the Barclays Center…
It’s really like they say, More Than A Game
-Say man when I was growing up we wanted a Jacuzzi, we had to fart in the tub.
i get that
but im clearly not going to be buying a suite. i’m talking about from the point of view of a nets fan, they can make 10x as much as they do in NJ and it won’t mean anything for the average fan if they’re not actually committed to completing overhauling the front office and basketball staff.
And to top off their greatest season yet the new jersey nets scored 86 points...in double overtime. yes a professional basketball team only mustered 86 points in 58 minutes of basketball.
i agree
…but I’ll give Thorn one last quarter inch of rope to hang himself with….really, with the way we are positioned he’d have to be a total moron to screw up badly….and if he makes stupid decisions with an unlimited bank account, the Russian will kick the chair out from under him and Thorn will be left with his legs dangling in the wind.
"No one stands on the top of the world. Not you, not me, not even gods. But the unbearable vacancy of the throne in the sky is over. From now on...I will be sitting on it."
by MrDollarBills on Apr 20, 2010 5:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Well maybe a condo at Atlantic Yards can be traded in for 2 of those homes in Georgia.
Do they have Kosher food their?
That is always a problem.
Where I am, you can get about a 3,000 sq foot home for $250,000 on a golf course, next to a small mountain.
But there is also a large Jewish Community.
And its called Forest Hills, apparently from people who relocated from the City.
This arena wouldn't be for fans
So much for good affordable family entertainment like the Nets have been offering for the last 30+ years in New Jersey. Welcome to the world of the Wannabe Knicks! Enjoy it folks, they won’t be getting any of my money.
"good affordable family entertainment"
what made you think there won’t be any?
If the suite is not for you, then leave them alone. There’s going to be cheap seats, always. Nets game won’t get sold out every single night.
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