Street and Smith's Sports Business (10/30) reports that the NFL has given the bad news to League owners that the Jets-Giants stadium plans will cost the teams in the League $914 million over 15 years; the NHL in upping their services in terms of business practices assistance to clubs (the services dept shares info and assistance on ticket pricing, marketing, and revenue enhancement plans of all stripes); the Orlando Magic arena is nearing an $8million naming rights deal with Ginn Co.; the Chiefs rethinking seriously about branding their stadium, but want to keep "Chiefs" on it regardless; the in-depth feature is on concessions; and there is an interesting piece on the value of information in team's efforts to up attendance
Street and Smith's Sports Business Journal (11/6) there's a nifty page 1 article on the financial wherewithal of the unions including a certain amount of breakdowns on sports-affiliated revenues; also on page 1 is a piece on BMX as a demonstration sport at the 2008 Beijing Olympics; attendance at the MLS playoff is down in the early games; the facilities focus is on smart cards and whether the systems will be viable for games concessions
Los Angeles Business Journal (11/27) The lead article is on the shelving of a downtown condo project by Astani Enterprises; and, just because it's personally fascinating there's a page 3 piece on pigeon racing which I grew up doing every weekend--but I can tell you, we never had the $100k purses the article talks about. Sheesh. Inflation!
Western City (Dec) has a piece on cities' attempts to build affordable senior housing
Western City (Nov) offers a feature Long Beach and its movement to "fiscal health."
Tradeshow Week (11/6) has a feature on the convention space in Hong Kong
Tradeshow Week (11/27) features second-tier cities
Fortune (12/11) has a small bit on Rancho El Cojo in Santa Barbara County being listed in the the Sotheby's fall catalog for an estimated $155 million; there's a piece on those who fight WalMarts; and a feature on Vietnam "Asia's second fastest-growing economy."
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