Opinion: Saskatoon's current arena generates big economic spinoff

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Opinion: Saskatoon's current arena generates big economic spinoff
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A former executive with the Saskatoon arena now known as SaskTel Centre says the facility has created economic activity throughout the city.

17 per cent of tickets sold for Garth Brooks’s six back-to-back shows were from out of province and 33 per cent were from elsewhere in Saskatchewan; with just shy of 100,000 tickets sold, the economic impact exceeded $16 million.Article content

, including inadequate rigging beams for sound and light equipment, insufficient dressing rooms and the lack of a loading dock and a kitchen. If you think the concourse is too narrow, it’s important to recall the space used to be huge before 51 new and profitable corporate suites were installed in a 1995 plan.

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