Officials Respond To Public Records Request On Bengals' New Stadium Deal

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(07-11-2019, 12:09 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: There’s literally nothing right around PBS. The Banks and all the bars and restaurants are a few blocks away next to the Reds stadium, and I find it very hard to believe the casino benefits all that much from the Bengals games considering it’s on the complete opposite side of the city. It’s also much different than people going down to Great American Ballpark 81 times a year. Football fans mostly tailgate which means bringing their own food, drinks, etc. Do the 8 home games a year (sometimes less when Mike agrees to play in Europe for that $$$) really bring in that much? I doubt the hotels even do that well. The biggest game that out of town fans travel here for is Pittsburgh and Cleveland, both of which they can just drive all the way home afterwards.

The banks is literally between the two stadiums.  It is not a long walk at all to the Bengal's stadium, and there is parking directly underneath it.

There are also numerous camp dates in the stadium where people come down to spend the day...and there are 10 home games.  Some people could care less about the preseason games, but people go and spend money downtown.  

There is a group that would rather tailgate, but a lot of them go out after the game.  

As far as the casino's location, it is easy to get an Uber, or take the light rail to Over-the-Rhine for a lot of other businesses that stand to gain from the games.

The hotels?   A lot of fans from opposing teams come in to town and fill up the nice hotels downtown.  And not just Cleveland or pitt, plus a lot of them would rather come saturday or even friday and enjoy the downtown and drive back after the game.  4 Hours before and after the game sucks, but I am sure a small % do it.  

The biggest argument was the 81 vs 10 games, but the Red's attendance is usually less than half (or even more) of what the Bengal's game draws.  So it may only be more like 41 or fewer games with the same attendance as the Bengal's 10 games.