BCTed
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Looks like December 5 is the day the magic happens
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Yorken Bay
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Where's this countdown clock, city hall?
BCTed
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I think it is at the arena. I think the mayor took a tour
BCTed
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It looks like the formerly orange press box/gondola has been painted black, so that may be a hint to the colour the new seats will be.
Also, the trash old scoreboard still looks like it is being preserved.
Also, the trash old scoreboard still looks like it is being preserved.
JakeLRS
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Fabricated images of the Marlies "thank you fans" email stating they would move to First Ontario Centre. If you see it online, it's fake.
BCTed
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It is indeed Matty Matheson. https://www.chch.com/chch-news/matty-matheson-set-to-open-restaurant-in-hamilton-arena/
Yorken Bay
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The new restaurant announced:
KingJames
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That is one massive restaurant.lets hope for many many events throughout the year.
Stec
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Soooo excited for Matty to come to town and we're getting all 3 of his restaurants within the arena!
BCTed
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Apparently the arena has been so successful at booking big events that it isn't going to bother pursuing the Brier (curling),
which would have a long setup time and require the arena for 19 days:
https://thepublicrecord.ca/2025/05/...ena-too-busy-for-brier-curling-championships/
which would have a long setup time and require the arena for 19 days:
https://thepublicrecord.ca/2025/05/...ena-too-busy-for-brier-curling-championships/
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Yorken Bay
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That sounds like very promising news. Have to think there's at least a couple anchor tenants yet to be announced if they're turning down an event like this.
BCTed
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I wouldn't necessairly come to that conclusion. The Brier is probably a low bang-for-your buck event and they probably don't want to forego the possibility of much larger-dollar events.
Mihairokov
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Correct. Curling events have gone from large venues to smaller venues in the last decade or two. They can’t really consistently fill 10K+ arenas anymore.
I think it bodes poorly for the potential tenants at this arena if they’re being this successful with concert booking. NLL teams don’t exactly draw massive crowds either.
BCTed
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It's not going to be so insanely busy with big concerts that it can't be used for smaller-tier events like lacrosse games.The Rock only play nine home games per season, and their games are a decent step up in attendance from OHL games (for example). I am sure that the arena will be able to accommodate that pretty easily, although I don't know if booking their usual Saturdays nights will be tougher.
Yorken Bay
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You might be right, but I'd think they would need at least say 3-4 major concerts going on drawing minimum 10k to justify turning it down. That's about 1 concert every 5 days over that span.
How many major tours are going on in late February?
As an aside, I actually Googleed to find out when the Brier is, and one of the first web pages is the bid application which is kinda hilarious.
The benefits of hosting are listed as: 66+ hours of national TV exposure. 10% of ticket sales retained by host city and $15M of economic impact.
I certainly hope whatever is intended instead will be worth at least they much in local impact.
If not, I question the partnership between the city and OVG. Is the facility being run for mutual benefit or only OVG?