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February 9, 2007
Nets promise local fans cheaper tickets - Say $15 seats will be available for Brooklyn games
Courier-Life Publications
By Stephen Witt
Lately, Forest City Ratner has been no-commenting a lot, but now the controversial development company is coming out of the closet to tout its plan to provide 2,000 $15 cheap seats.
Brooklyn’s hardworking basketball fans will not be forgotten once the NBA’s Nets land in Brooklyn, according to team spokesperson Barry Baum.
Baum’s comments fly in the face of a recent published report touting that tickets for Nets games, once the team comes to Brooklyn, are estimated to go for between $51 and $970 each.
“We want to make Nets games in Brooklyn as accessible for everyone and so we’re providing 2,000 $15 tickets for all regular season games in the upper bowl seats,” said Baum.
Baum also noted that the Community Benefits Agreement (CBA), signed with eight local community based organizations, calls for the team to designate one luxury suite, four seats in the lower bowl and 50 seats in the upper bowl for community seats.
Last month, Jay-Z refused to comment on the Barclays Bank naming-rights brouhaha, but he is offering this cheerful remark:
Meanwhile, Brooklyn-born rap artist Def Jam Records President and Nets part-owner Sean (Jay-Z) Carter, said that to have an NBA team in Brooklyn up the street and down the block brings the dream closer to youths in the borough.
“I was telling Bruce [Ratner] and the guys from the beginning [that] you guys think this is a good idea, but you don’t understand it’s really a great idea,” said Jay-Z.
NoLandGrab: Forest City Ratner and Jay-Z have sure got it figured out; whatever the impact or slight to the African-American community, everything will be forgiven if you toss in a few basketball tickets.
Posted by lumi at February 9, 2007 11:31 AM