Posted on 06/25/2020 12:57:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
Amazon has purchased the naming rights to Seattle's KeyArena, which will now be known as Climate Pledge Arena.
The arena, which is currently under redevelopment, is set to be the home of an unnamed Seattle-based NHL team which is planning to join the league for the 2021-2022 season.
Amazon's announcement on Instagram highlighted the company's commitment to sustainability: it plans for the arena to produce zero waste and heavily reduce its current use of plastics, and will also be powered by renewable energy as it seeks to eliminate its carbon footprint.
"It will be the first net zero carbon certified arena in the world, generate zero waste from operations and events, and use reclaimed rainwater in the ice system to create the greenest ice in the NHL," Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wrote in the Instagram post.
Tod Leiweike, CEO of NHL Seattle, told The Seattle Times that his organization was excited for the chance to feature sustainability in the arena, which he said was a goal of the team before Amazon's investment.
“I never dreamed that we would have this type of platform,” he told the Times.
So in spite of the place unraveling under government that could not dress themselves, there are all kinds of people still happy to stay there.
I spent a week in Seattle once. I don’t recall seeing the sun.
But they will still offer their traditional cardboard pizza, stale pretzels, and $12 beers.
Climate Bull$hit Arena
HANDS DOWN THE BEST HOCKEY MOVIE EVAH!
Paul Newman would be in prison if that scene was in a movie today.
Oh yeah, there’s a lot they will take out of that movie now.
Spoil sport
LOL, I love the “How Dare You!” from the owner.
This ain’t The Bee!......................
Seattle is the perfect place for it. Frankly I think it’s insane for any business to commit to a major investment in that city.
Yep who knows what crazy names they will have in Pittsburgh.
It’s hard to keep up with all these corporate named stadiums, which sometimes change names on us.
It’s enough to make me nostalgic for the old days. I remember Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, DC stadium in Washington, Municipal stadium in Cleveland, Municipal stadium in Kansas City, as being straightforward descriptive names, and for which naming rights had not been sold to some corporation.
Wait, what? Oh, t see. The Hill is trying its hand at satire.
Like anyone cares about hockey up there. They want the Supersonics back and they will never be an NBA town again. The NBA, like MLB, doesn’t want those massively long flights up there. 2,500 miles or so from any other team. Nobody wants that. SF is the closest team in baseball from the Mariners and they ain’t even in the same league.
Fortunately I have several originals in my collection.
Why didn’t they name it George Floyd stadium?
Amazon is racist
Seattle Antifas will be the name of the expansion NHL franchise. Half sarcasm.
Yeah, yeah, I know they are closer, but that is what it feels like, as SF and Denver are the closest, along with the A’s, and it is forever to travel up there.
I remember once watching it on TV, and they had replaced all the songs from the original soundtrack, including “Right Back Where We Started From”, guess at the time there must have been some dispute with the royalties.
Naw, Target Field in Minn. will change to that.
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