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Jazzfest Sioux Falls

Sioux Falls may never see JazzFest again

l3wis 4Comments

I was proud to be a part of the marketing team for several years and designing the 2006 & 2007 logos.

Even though JF did kind of end a few years ago there was still some hope it would return in some kind of form. With the SFJB Society disbanding this week, we may never see JazzFest again.

It bums me out because it was always a Sioux Falls tradition I kept (often landing on my birthday) and a great mid-summer party with close Sioux Falls friends.

Maybe someday Levitt can bring this great event back!

Denny Sanford Premier Center Event Center

Congressional hearing proves our Premier Center is a money vacuum

l3wis 3Comments

If you watch the hearing below you will see just how much of your ticket purchase goes to the big guys and how very little goes towards the artist. What is left out of the discussion is just how much money stays in our community. Very little. I have argued that when you spend money locally on entertainment that money gets re-circulated in the community when you spend it at the Denty most of it goes straight out of town. And SALES don’t reflect profit which doesn’t even cover 10% of our mortgage payment;

It was the Premier Center’s most profitable year yet, coming in at $2.1 million compared to the previous record of $1.5 million set in 2019.

And just how much of that ‘profit’ goes back to city coffers?

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