Tag Archives: economic impact

More on TSO’s attendance, and First Night changes this year

Today’s Herald had two interesting stories for local music lovers. First, Tu-Uyen Tran wrote about Wednesday’s Alerus Center Commission meeting, during which Executive Director Steve Hyman said the center’s earlier projected loss for the year of $123,000 could be cut … Continue reading

Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

The Alerus Center’s finances are in the news again

Herald staff writer Tu-Uyen Tran was able to uncover some interesting financial details about the Alerus Center’s operations in 2009 – he had a story that went online today, and I think it should be updated before the end of … Continue reading

Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

Alerus Center lost money on Britney Spears… but is that a big deal?

News of the Alerus Center’s economic performance with the Britney Spears concert came out today, and the thing that really surprised me was that almost every number I would have wanted was released. (For a while, I was worried that … Continue reading

Tagged , , , , | 15 Comments

Transcript from Wednesday’s events center commission meeting

I expected to hear some kind of a reaction to my Wednesday story about the Grand Forks events center commission meeting – but one thing I don’t like is being accused of not putting quotes in the proper context (read … Continue reading

Tagged , , | 5 Comments

Britney ticket sales might take a while

I attended this morning’s events center commission meeting, and Alerus Center Executive Director Steve Hyman made it a point to tell me and a WDAZ reporter why they’ve been so hesitant to release ticket sales information for the Britney Spears … Continue reading

Tagged , , , , , | 9 Comments

Britney brings the Canadians to GF

I just spoke with David Flynn, an economics professor at UND and part of a team of people who were at the Britney Spears concert to determine the show’s economic impact. Final numbers aren’t available yet (and probably won’t be … Continue reading

Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment