3 ticket companies promise profits for city if they get Chevy Centre pact
3 ticket companies promise profits for city if they get Chevy Centre pact
YOUNGSTOWN —Giant national ticket agency Ticketmaster says it can generate $942,000 over five years for the city if it’s selected to sell tickets for events at the Chevrolet Centre.
New Era Tickets of Wayne, Pa., projects a $1.8 million profit for the city over the same five-year time period. New Era is the ticketing sister company of Global Spectrum, one of two companies vying for a contract to help operate the center.
City officials will consider proposals from nine companies that submitted proposals for the ticketing job and should make a decision by April 30.
Smaller companies such as TICKETsage of Fayetteville, Ark.; EZ-TIXX of Charlotte, N.C.; and Brown Paper Tickets of Seattle, proposed flat fees for each ticket sold that would be charged to the city. None of them provided financial projections.
Another smaller company, Choice Ticketing Systems of Boulder, Colo., stated it could generate $4.83 million to about $8 million in profit for the center over five years.
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