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You Don’t Leave New York for Kansas City
by Alanah McGinley on 02/12/09 at 12:05 PM ET
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From Justin Kendall at The Pitch:
I called Neil deMause a couple of weeks ago. He’s the author of Field of Schemes, a Web site devoted to the ins and outs of stadium deals. He also lives in New York. deMause told me that “everybody’s freaking out” about the possibility of the Islanders skating to KC.
“The tabloids are in at least in 50 percent panic mode,” deMause said. “What are we going to do? This means we need to get an arena deal done. If that was the intent, then it’s working really well.”
But deMause added some clarity.
“You don’t leave New York for Kansas City,” deMause said. “Even in a down economy, there’s more opportunities to make money in New York.
“Maybe if Nassau Coliseum were literally falling down, and they felt like we’re not going to get anything, but they’re pretty close to getting deal in Long Island,” he added. “It’s just a matter of getting the local government to sign off on some of the approvals. It’s not like there was $300 million gap or something like there was in Seattle.”
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