Quote Originally Posted by BoulderSooner View Post
key areana has no club level and limited suites for that size of a market . .. .and has limited seating in general

united center chicago has 3 levels of suites ..
Nawww, suites were not an issue. If suites were an issue, it was a very small issue.

The problem was the ' footprint ' was too small and it could not be expanded. The real estate was just not available.

People in Seattle pushed this hard, they wondered why they could not just rennovate the KeyArena and satisfy Stern. Because they could find a way to finance a rennovation. And Stern's answer was always the size of the footprint. Every time.