I've seen so many different capacity numbers listed for the Southlake Stadium that I'm unsure what is correct. Does anyone KNOW how many tickets can be sold for games, including any standing-room only tickets?
50,000 seated, 10,000 standing/tiered. In order to reserve a "seat" season ticket, you have to be in the lottery. To be in the lottery, the estimate is that you would have to send in an initiaion fee of approximately $1000 per seat or be a previous season ticket holder. Just kidding. Isn't it now a hair above 9000? I can't imagine there is such a thing as a "standing" ticket.
The sad part is that after many seasons of increased ticket sales by the hard working Burn front office they will be hit with a statistical sharp decline in numbers for two years, even if they sell the place out. You just can't win!
It's even worse than that Sweeper. Now, their target audience is changing and in 2-3 years will geographicly change again. Boy, now that's a lot of motivation for a sales agent.
The Morning News had a story March 7 that a ruling was expected on whether to allow the club to increase seating by 2,020, to make capacity 9,500. The impression I had was that the decision was to be made Friday, as in three days ago. Was it? Article also quoted Mayor Rick Stacy really ripping the team management, calling their proposal about how they would accomodate parking for increased seating capaicty as "unorganized" and "unprofessional" and he said he was "embarrassed." Not sure why his honor wants to rip a potential business partner in the paper, but is it possible this is not a healthy relationship? Was a decision on increased seating made?
The City of Southlake isn't the Burn's business partner, Carroll ISD is. That may sound weird, so a little explanation is required. In Texas, independent school districts are just that -- independent of city and county governments. That said, city politicians generally want to be perceived as being supporting local schools and they'll comment on local school issues, even though they have no direct power over them. The boundaries of ISDs don't even correspond to city boundaries. So a city can be in two different ISDs and an ISD can cover parts of multiple cities. So my local politicians in Richardson will generally feel free to comment on Richardson ISD issues, even though they have no say-so on those issues. Only the Richardson ISD School Board, which is directly elected by people who live within the Richardson ISD boundaries, have direct impact over Richardson ISD. But I'm not one of those voters, since I live within Plano ISD, but there are parts of the City of Dallas that are in Richardson ISD. So Rick Stacy can feel free to rip Carroll ISD's business partners, since the City of Southlake isn't seeing one red cent of direct revenue from the Burn. They'll likely see more sales tax revenues from restaurants near the stadium, but that's about it. Still, he and the City Council weren't going to do anything to completely screw Carroll ISD, because they want to be perceived as being supportive of local schools.