It spews evil carbon too. Maybe Burney will end it in 2017.
Posted on 02/08/2016 11:57:47 AM PST by nickcarraway
When Santa Clara business owners heard the Super Bowl was headed to the Bay Area, they were understandably excited: With tens of thousands of people swarming Levi’s Stadium for the big game, surely big profits would follow, they assumed.
As it turns out, however, sales in the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl has been lackluster at some locations that were counting on a customer uptick.
Nga Huynh, the owner of Butter and Zeus, says that the foot traffic has slowed at her location.
'Businesses is a little bit down because of all the road closures,' she said. 'We aren’t seeing our usual Sunday crowd.'
Like many restaurateurs, she's keeping her eatery open late so that people leaving Super Bowl parties can come and dine.
When Santa Clara business owners heard the Super Bowl was headed to the Bay Area, they were understandably excited: With tens of thousands of people swarming Levi’s Stadium for the big game, surely big profits would follow, they assumed. Marianne Favro reports.
Despite Huynh's disappointing sales, however, the Super Bowl has met the expectations of other business owners, particularly those within a two block radius of the stadium.
'This super bowl thing is amazing,' said a cook at Dona Maria Mexican Food, where tacos were in high demand but short supply.
'We’re probably up 100 percent,' said Guillermo Prado, owner of Dona Maria’s. 'Normally, business on Sunday is slow.'
They all stayed home and watched on tv:
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2016/02/08/tv-ratings-sunday-feb-7-2016-super-bowl-50/
I think it was the Mayor of Glendale, Arizona last year that complained about the impact to the community that the Super Bowl has which he based on the previous Super Bowl that had been played there sever years prior. I think most wrote it off as trying to get more money from the NFL to cover the impacts.
"Businesses is a little bit down because of all the road closures," she said. "We aren't seeing our usual Sunday crowd."
If that's true, its exactly what happened in Philadelphia when the Pope came last Fall. The city completely overreacted with shutting down roads and restricting traffic so no one came into town and it was a complete disaster for the businesses who expected to have a sales bonanza. Cities go so overboard with "terrorism control" anymore that they turn their streets into a police state whenever a big event happens, and a lot of people simply avoid it than go through the hassle.
rabid fans only mean problems, not profit.
My home town of Ft. Worth experienced the same thing when the first NASCAR race was held.
the die-hard NASCAR fan is something to behold and then banish to Antartica. IMO.
But I have a major problem with a “sport” that evolved from criminal behavior.
It spews evil carbon too. Maybe Burney will end it in 2017.
But the city will be by to collect their special assessment next week.
Nga Huynh
Whoa! How do you pronounce that name? Inga Hine?
When the G-Whatever Number came to Pittsburgh, they fenced off downtown. It was evil. Looked like a camp from a movie about a future US police state.
LOL. Could be, it is the bay area.
I saw the same thing in DC. Had tickets to two Nats games. went the first night and saw all the signs that said what roads or lanes would be closed the next day for the pope's visit and decided no way. I gave the ticket away and stayed away. If I'm expecting big crowds someplace I'd normally go...I'll stay away until the crowds leave.
San Francisco (50 miles away from the Super Bowl) shoved all its homeless bums out of the way and sponsored a big ‘street party’ to attract most of the Super Bowl business away from San Jose/Santa Clara. Initially, local people thought this was crazy and couldn’t work (as well as being terribly audacious). But, it worked spectacularly.
People attended the game in SillyCon Valley and then raced an hour up to SF to spend any money they had left over from the exorbitant ballpark prices. Now, SF’s thousands of homeless people (which SF’s hard-left politicos maintain and breed as its sort their counter-cultural pet zoo)...are able to return to their usual begging haunts. SNAFU
It may be that football fans aren’t the type to hang out in cafes sponsoring poetry slams and vegan food only
One of the only Sundays our restaurant closes is for Super Bowl.
Many other restaurants have learned to do the same.
People stay home, get trashed and eat junk food
Or tacos
Interesting insight, thanks.
I know one thing the NFL liked about the Indianapolis SB was that the stadium was located in the middle of downtown, adjacent to all the hotels and restaurants and convention center meeting space.
There aren’t that many vegan restaurants or poetry slams in Santa Clara.
The Dems provided catering at the convention center, effectively shafting all the local eateries in walking distance, combined with the aforementioned road closures and and other restrictions.
One guy decided to shut down for the rest of the duration, and ran afoul of the pols when he put up a sign explaining exactly why he was closed.
The convention goers, including the press, got to see the sign every day.
The Party Elite and their sycophants were not amused.
The Dems got the city to fine the guy or cause similar headaches.
Lots of empty seats at the game too
I suspect others feel the same way.
I don’t like Levis Stadium (I watched it being built - I’m from Palo Alto and San Jose). To me it’s stupid and reflection of the under-performing, vision-lacking ownership of the SF Forty-Niners. The traffic nightmares this stadium causes were well know ahead of time that they would be a problem. There isn’t much business around there because it is in the middle of an industrial park. Not to mention they’ve taken the Niners out of SF. Stupid.
In SF you have a parking lot across McCovey Cove from maybe the finest baseball park with the best views of any ball park in baseball. They coulda & shoulda built that Niner’s stadium RIGHT THERE. What a cool stadium that would be. That whole area of the City which has gone from ramshackle to high-end rent district, would escalate in value even more. Ingress and egress is a piece of cake with highways, trains, light rails, ferry boats, and foot traffic all relatively terminating in that area.
I’m still holding out that someone with half a brain takes over the Niners and get them back into the City where they belong, right there at McCovey Cove and stone’s throw away from what is called the Tiffany jewel of baseball parks, AT&T Park. May it happen soon.
Levi Stadium can be donated to the Museum of Dumb.
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