Gothamist: Troubled Nets Arena in Brooklyn Selling Luxury Suites

sonyactivision

Fri, 16 May 2008 21:38:54 -0500

Skybox futures. Trade 'em all day long. Let the asians grab 'em all in after-hours trading. Sell into a Bull Market and build another Barclays.

Think twice

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:21:08 -0500

What!? No hoochies, no rappers, no sasquatch bodyguards?! Instead we got wine and cheese hour at the Omaha Hilton.

rtd2101

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:20:16 -0500

Oh yeah, and I like the douche in the first picture, watching the big screen TV when the actual game is 20ft below him.

rtd2101

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:19:25 -0500

After they've purchased their suites, send them to me, I have a swamp in Arizona I want to sell them.

aa77

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:56:23 -0500

I heard that they are already taking deposits for the new condo towers being built at the North Pole as well.

Jen S

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:39:19 -0500

Someone enlighten me: is it common practice in a suite to watch the game on a tv when you're AT the arena?!

zoofroy

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:26:49 -0500

"Call it the banality of Barclays: of the five sports fans depicted above, only one is actually paying any attention to the game – and of course he’s watching it on television." Brilliant. This makes up for yesterday's pointless post about the Brazilian money art.

EastRiver

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:20:56 -0500

I wonder where the next wave of money for professional sports is going to come from. First it was cable TV. Then just about every team in every sport got a new stadium or arena with more luxury suites - and built with public money or tax free bonds. Now we have cable channels owned by the team itself. Maybe they should just go with an all-suite arena.

Tim N.

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:20:53 -0500

It's the new "selling the Brooklyn Bridge"! If there are ten people willing to part with the serious coin it will take to buy one of these things... that don't exist... and that's future existence is in serious doubt... I will be shocked. And shouldn't they have checked with the prospective buyers of the Nets before putting these offers out?

TimSPC

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:12:53 -0500

WTF? No one is watching the actual game in the top picture. I like the idea of the viewless suites, but only if I could live there full time. $540k sounds like a sweet deal.

ANGRYGOD11

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:09:04 -0500

The renderings are very exact: Everyone is white, except the players. Welcome to Brooklyn!

drewo

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:07:07 -0500

They could really maximize profits by removing all regular seating and replacing it a variety of "luxury" boxes and suites - then they won't have to deal with the riff raff public and the annoyance of trying to sell single-game tickets.