The Royals are leaving Kauffman aren’t they? This parking lot get even hugher!
Yes there getting a new stadium while the chiefs are moving to the Kansas side of the metro.
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Better hope they don’t meet the Sabres in the playoffs.
I, nor my family, really cared about hockey growing up so even though we’re diehard Bills fans… we never followed the Sabres. With that in mind, I gotta root for my HOME team. If the Sabres meet Carolina in the playoffs, it’ll probably go the same way their Stanley Cup matchup went 
Not sure where to put this, but LinkedIn was certainly an unexpected place to see news of this caliber.
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The posting date of April 1st seems to put the legitimacy of this into question. (There’s also a # hashtag at the bottom with #aprilfools)
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Certainly would be an amazing attraction if it were true!
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Yall are too astute 
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If only Vegas has a Sphere in the USA, there is no way in 
that Raleigh would be next in line. Clearly we have an April Fool.
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Apparently the Vegas Spere is a financial disaster and bleeding money. The intitial price tag, plus doing the video for the shows is very expensive to program & produce
Not sure they will build more of them, unless they can really bring the cost of construction and production way down.
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It’s a phenomenal experience tho. The Sphere was one of the coolest things I’ve ever experienced.
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The sphere in Vegas seats 17k. This one would seat 6k.
I could be wrong, but I think it’d be a little bit more like the COSM model you see in places like Dallas. I’m guessing Sphere has a small-scale model to compete with this business model that is starting to see some traction.
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I don’t doubt it’s a phenomenal experience. But that does not mean it’s financially a good investment.
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Our company has had some events at the COSM in Dallas and I hear it’s amazing. Not Sphere-level amazing, but much more reasonable from a size/cost perspective to build and operate I expect.
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I’ll chime in here with @Deekay93 that it’s a phenomenal experience. That said, I hear you regarding the cost to fully produce a show there. Producing all of the content that is required to break even precludes having short run shows because the costs will never be recovered unless folks want to pay ever higher prices to attend. This is why the Sphere generally hosts longer running residencies.
Shows like the Backstreet Boys residency, which keeps adding more and more shows as demand continues, are the sort of shows that prove profitable because they can keep reusing the content created for no additional upfront development costs. The show becomes more profitable for both the band and the venue. The Eagles are another long run residency.
Similarly, the Sphere Experience is an ongoing “show” that basically demonstrates the Sphere’s capabilities. Get folks to buy tickets to that ongoing, and it’s another profit center.
All in all, the Sphere needs to program as much of the days and nights as possible, 7 days a week, with long running programs that are already in the can.
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They’ll also do reruns without the artists and I’m not sure what the ticket sales are for those, but it’s almost as good given the value of the Sphere isn’t so much the artist, but the show, and if you’re sitting in the “best” seats, you can barely see the artist(s) anyway. Then you have much better returns on ticket sales.
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So I could fly all the way to Vegas to see a surround view movie of the Backstreet Boys? Wow, can’t wait…
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You want it that way.
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I hear that they are backed up by a group of 5 middle aged men.
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