Here we go again, breaking in another new reporter at the Argus that allows city hall and it’s minions to buffalo them into a puff piece.
It was so nice of Chris to tell us this;
“I don’t think you’ll find a market of our size with a venue of our size that has had the number and the level of touring events that we’ve had the last two and a half years in the country,” said Chris Semrau, assistant general manager for SMG, the management company for the Premier Center.
Pollstar, an international touring publication that collects venue ticket sales, ranked the Premier Center as No. 88 in the world for tour ticket sales in 2016. That does not include sporting or special events. Usually new venues decrease in rank their second year, but the Premier Center rose 12 slots from No. 100 in the world in 2015. The facility is already doing better in 2017 than consultants for the city had projected.
And that sales number are what? Still a highly guarded secret apparently.
Chris also added this;
“We have hosted many country tours for multiple reasons, first financially. They do very well in this market.”
Just how much have the artists made at the EC?
More smoke and mirrors to cloud what we really want to know. Stop with the BS and just give us the actual numbers. How much money is going straight out the door.
Once again we get press releases versus news. This building will be a burden on the books of Sioux Falls for the next 50+ years. There is no way possible for this building to make money for the community. It was poorly designed, poorly built and poorly financed. Our Sioux Falls chief marketing officer has sold us a bill of goods and is soon leaving the scene for us to suffer his foolishness.