October 08, 2007
Sprint Center Opens, Contracts Remain Closed
This week the Sprint Center will officially open. On Wednesday there will be a Grand Opening and a tour for the public. Yet the public still knows very little about how the building is being operated, especially when it comes to tickets.
While the mainstream media and publicity hungry politicians have focused on the issue of ticket scalping, it seems that many more tickets are lost to the elite than to the illegal.
Did eighteen percent of tickets for Billy Joel really go to Founders Club members? How often will that happen? Did the promoters of the Hannah Montana show really get more than twenty five percent of the tickets? Is that what it will take to bring big acts to Kansas City?
Our argument is this: if contracts with Founders Club members, suite holders or ”others” are taking tickets away from the general public pool, the general public has a right to know. AEG may mange the arena as a private company, but they do so under contract with the city. The bonds that are building the arena are the public’s debt.
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