Numlock News: August 11, 2021 • Arenas, Glowworm, Contrafreeloading
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By Walt Hickey For Sale, Velodrome, Briefly Used Now that the Olympics are over, Tokyo is covered in a bunch of useless one-trick sports venues that now exist mostly as elaborate birdhouses, and on that note do you want to buy one? The $1.4 billion National Stadium that hosted the opening and closing ceremonies can hold 68,000 spectators — not that it ever got to attempt that — and costs $22 million in maintenance costs, and following the Paralympics it will have operating rights sold. The only venue expected to turn a profit is Ariake Arena, which cost 37 billion yen to build and given it can host concerts is projected to make 360 million yen a year. But some of it’s pretty grim, like
Numlock News: August 11, 2021 • Arenas, Glowworm, Contrafreeloading
Numlock News: August 11, 2021 • Arenas…
Numlock News: August 11, 2021 • Arenas, Glowworm, Contrafreeloading
By Walt Hickey For Sale, Velodrome, Briefly Used Now that the Olympics are over, Tokyo is covered in a bunch of useless one-trick sports venues that now exist mostly as elaborate birdhouses, and on that note do you want to buy one? The $1.4 billion National Stadium that hosted the opening and closing ceremonies can hold 68,000 spectators — not that it ever got to attempt that — and costs $22 million in maintenance costs, and following the Paralympics it will have operating rights sold. The only venue expected to turn a profit is Ariake Arena, which cost 37 billion yen to build and given it can host concerts is projected to make 360 million yen a year. But some of it’s pretty grim, like