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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 5052515, member: 10"] I'll add one caveat to that. Ones with major tenants who use the arena for a lot of dates a year. I actually peripherally worked with the Celtics owners about 10-15 years ago when their lease at the TD Garden (owned by the Bruins) was coming to the end. They were trying to determine if a new arena for the Celtics could work. Even with 1 major professional franchise as the anchor tenant the economics didn't work. You'd have the Celtics for 50+/- dates a year. But then all the concerts, etc. would be split with the TD Garden and there just weren't enough dates to make a new arena financially feasible. Without public subsidies of course and that wasn't happening in Massachusetts. [/QUOTE]