squawkingbaseball.com - 10/14/2008
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The Mets sold 10 “Sterling Suites” for $500,000 each. They sold 45 “Empire Suites,” 39 for $250,000, and 6 for $275,000. Total suite revenue: $16,400,000, plus whatever the teams brings in for their single game plans. They seemed to do a lot of research on pricing, but Howard admits they ...
cnbc.com - 10/11/2008
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The New York Mets said yesterday that they
have sold out their luxury suites for Citi Field...
next year. That’s an amazing statement of resistance, especially during these tough economic times. I spoke with Dave Howard, the team’s executive vice ...
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NY Mets Exec Dave Howard On Selling Out Luxury Suites - ...
slidingintohome.blogspot.com - 10/11/2008
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From Bloomberg.com : The New York Yankees have
seven luxury suites priced at $600,000 a season left...
for sale at their new stadium and the club isn't concerned that the economic crisis will hamper its ability to sell them, chief operating officer Lonn Trost said. The $1.3 billion ballpark ...
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Yanks Have Seven Unsold $600K Luxury Suites at New Stadium
zellspinstripeblog.com - 10/11/2008
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There are seven $600,000 luxury suites left unsold
at the New Yankee Stadium, according to Bloomberg.com. The...
Yankees organization isn’t concerned about it. The country is in a bad economic crisis, but the club doesn’t believe that they won’t be able to sell them.
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Yankees have seven unsold $600,000 luxury suites at the ...
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... • SQUAWKING BASEBALL notes that the Mets are having some remorse about the price of their luxury suites at the new Citifield. Not in the way you think, though. The Mets didn’t have any problem selling them, they just now think they didn’t charge enough for them. The suites went for $250,000-500,000. But the suites at the new Yankee Stadium started at $600,000 and also sold well. ...
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sports.yahoo.com 11/12/2008 — NEW YORK (AP)—Selling suites may not be so sweet a business for the New York Yankees in these tough economic times. Seven luxury boxes down the foul lines priced at $600,000 remain available for the 2009 season, the first at the new Yankee Stadium. ...
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zellspinstripeblog.com 11/12/2008 — We heard about this before, but you would have figured that they would be sold by now. I guess the faltering economy has really made selling these suites more difficult. You would think that there are plenty of people out there willing to drop that kind of money down, (I’m sure there are..) but I gu
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bizofbaseball.com 11/12/2008 — Bitter suite? The economy has slowed sales of luxury suites for the new Yankee Stadium Even baseball’s most popular team isn’t impervious to the slow down in the economy. Sales for suites in new $1.3 billion Yankee Stadium, slated to open next year, have stalled, with seven of the luxury ...
