Stadium Construction Discussion (No PSL/Seat selection posts)

[Einstein]

2 hours ago, RiotAct said:

I forgot Delta Sonic and Paula’s Donuts, sorry.

 

You also forgot likely the largest home grown company in WNY. Wegmans. 50,000 employees.

 

I know it started in Rochester but it’s definitely WNY.

 

Paychex too.

[mrags]

25 minutes ago, Einstein said:

 

You also forgot likely the largest home grown company in WNY. Wegmans. 50,000 employees.

 

I know it started in Rochester but it’s definitely WNY.

 

Paychex too.

It was an easy thing to look at wiki and find all the corporations that could have been included in the list. Here, I’ll copy for everyone that is too lazy to look at wiki. 

 

Alfred State College

Alfred University

Astronics Corporation

Aurubis

Bank of America

Blue Cross Blue Shield (Western NY headquarters)

The Buffalo News in Canalside

Computer Task Group

University at Buffalo

Canisius College

Catholic Health

Charter Communications

Citigroup

Cummins

Cutco in Olean (headquarters)

Delaware North in downtown (headquarters)

Dresser-Rand Group

DuPont

Ellicott Development Co.

Empire Genomics (headquarters)

Fisher-Price in East Aurora

Ford Motor Company (Buffalo Stamping Plant)

GEICO in Amherst

General Mills in Canalside

General Motors (Tonawanda Engine)

HSBC Bank USA in downtown

Ingram Micro

Kaleida Health

Keybank in Larkinville

Labatt Brewing Company in downtown (U.S. headquarters)

Life Storage in Williamsville, NY

Linde

Mighty Taco

Moog Inc. in East Aurora (headquarters)

M&T Bank in downtown (headquarters)

New Era Cap Company in downtown (headquarters)

National Fuel Gas in Williamsville (headquarters)

Nestlé Purina PetCare

Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center in Niagara Falls

Niagara University in Lewiston

NOCO Energy Corporation in Tonawanda(headquarters)

OnCore Golf (headquarters)

Pegula Sports and Entertainment in Canalside(headquarters)

People Inc.

Perry's Ice Cream

Rich Products (headquarters)

Republic Steel in Blasdell

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Seneca Gaming Corp

Seneca Niagara Casino

Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino

Seneca Allegany Casino

Saint-Gobain Corp.

Solar Liberty

Sumitomo Rubber USA LLC

Synacor (headquarters)

Tesla, Inc./SolarCity in South Buffalo (Gigafactory 2)

Tops Markets in Williamsville (headquarters)

Univera Healthcare

Wegmans

 

and that’s just Buffalo. Of course you can always add in Rochester and even closer, Niagara Falls both US and CA. Eastern Ontario is the financial hub of the entire county of Canada so there’s that. 

 

[BillsFan2313]

2 hours ago, RiotAct said:

oh man, how could I forget the Broadway Market.  They should be able to allocate the funds from Babcia’s Pierogies sales for a luxury box  at the brand-new stadium.

 

[EasternOHBillsFan]

My father would have loved to have been Project Manager for something like this... he was one of those troubleshooters who was sent to a job to keep it moving and the budget reigned in. He worked on the St. Lawrence Seaway with Uhl, Hall and Rich in the late 50s and later on the Niagara Power Project in the early 80s. There is a lot of Sopranos type crap to get anything substantial built in the state of New York... my father ended up having a hunting holiday on the Rockefeller estate when he was governor LOL 

[PBF81]

2 hours ago, mrags said:

It was an easy thing to look at wiki and find all the corporations that could have been included in the list. Here, I’ll copy for everyone that is too lazy to look at wiki. 

 

Alfred State College

Alfred University

Astronics Corporation

Aurubis

Bank of America

Blue Cross Blue Shield (Western NY headquarters)

The Buffalo News in Canalside

Computer Task Group

University at Buffalo

Canisius College

Catholic Health

Charter Communications

Citigroup

Cummins

Cutco in Olean (headquarters)

Delaware North in downtown (headquarters)

Dresser-Rand Group

DuPont

Ellicott Development Co.

Empire Genomics (headquarters)

Fisher-Price in East Aurora

Ford Motor Company (Buffalo Stamping Plant)

GEICO in Amherst

General Mills in Canalside

General Motors (Tonawanda Engine)

HSBC Bank USA in downtown

Ingram Micro

Kaleida Health

Keybank in Larkinville

Labatt Brewing Company in downtown (U.S. headquarters)

Life Storage in Williamsville, NY

Linde

Mighty Taco

Moog Inc. in East Aurora (headquarters)

M&T Bank in downtown (headquarters)

New Era Cap Company in downtown (headquarters)

National Fuel Gas in Williamsville (headquarters)

Nestlé Purina PetCare

Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center in Niagara Falls

Niagara University in Lewiston

NOCO Energy Corporation in Tonawanda(headquarters)

OnCore Golf (headquarters)

Pegula Sports and Entertainment in Canalside(headquarters)

People Inc.

Perry's Ice Cream

Rich Products (headquarters)

Republic Steel in Blasdell

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Seneca Gaming Corp

Seneca Niagara Casino

Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino

Seneca Allegany Casino

Saint-Gobain Corp.

Solar Liberty

Sumitomo Rubber USA LLC

Synacor (headquarters)

Tesla, Inc./SolarCity in South Buffalo (Gigafactory 2)

Tops Markets in Williamsville (headquarters)

Univera Healthcare

Wegmans

 

and that’s just Buffalo. Of course you can always add in Rochester and even closer, Niagara Falls both US and CA. Eastern Ontario is the financial hub of the entire county of Canada so there’s that. 

 

 

Do you know how many of them have luxury suites now?  

 

 

[mrags]

13 minutes ago, PBF81 said:

 

Do you know how many of them have luxury suites now?  

 

 

I’ll go down the list of ones that I am pretty sure have suites or recently did. 
 

Blue cross

Dupont

Geico

Ingram Micro

Kaleida

Moog

M&T

New Era

Rich

Seneca Gaming has the largest box in the stadium I believe. Pretty much takes up like 2 whole sections. 
Tops

Univera

Wegmans

 

then there’s others that I know for a fact have seasons which are Atwal eyecare, and I’m sure nobody has ever heard of this company unless you are in real estate, Borman Law. But here I was just thinking only Fortune 500 companies were able to afford box suites. 

[Just Jack]

6 hours ago, RiotAct said:

WNY corporate community… let’s see…

 

Local hospitals 

M&T Bank

New Era (?)

Independent Health

Blue Cross Blue Shield of WNY

Northtown

West Herr

Ted’s Hot Dogs

William Mattar

Anderson’s Frozen Custard (RIP mama Anderson)

 

 

am I missing any?

 

Anchor Bar

Mighty Taco

 

[mrags]

46 minutes ago, PBF81 said:

 

Do you know how many of them have luxury suites now?  

 

 

Pretty sure Ficta, Endel, and Elmer eyecare also have a suite. Also pretty sure Connor and Ferris have one. 

[BarleyNY]

9 hours ago, mrags said:

I’ll go down the list of ones that I am pretty sure have suites or recently did. 
 

Blue cross

Dupont

Geico

Ingram Micro

Kaleida

Moog

M&T

New Era

Rich

Seneca Gaming has the largest box in the stadium I believe. Pretty much takes up like 2 whole sections. 
Tops

Univera

Wegmans

 

then there’s others that I know for a fact have seasons which are Atwal eyecare, and I’m sure nobody has ever heard of this company unless you are in real estate, Borman Law. But here I was just thinking only Fortune 500 companies were able to afford box suites. 

 

I’m fairly certain that New Era doesn’t have one anymore. I was at a game this season in a suite. It was through my wife with a company in the IT world that is doing business with her. We seemed to be the token business related attendees to keep it an allowable expense. I was talking to the owner and he said he didn’t think they were going to have one in the new stadium as they expected the yearly fees to be in the $250k-$350k range. That’s just to have the rights to use the suite. Tickets and food are extra. 

[mrags]

2 hours ago, BarleyNY said:

 

I’m fairly certain that New Era doesn’t have one anymore. I was at a game this season in a suite. It was through my wife with a company in the IT world that is doing business with her. We seemed to be the token business related attendees to keep it an allowable expense. I was talking to the owner and he said he didn’t think they were going to have one in the new stadium as they expected the yearly fees to be in the $250k-$350k range. That’s just to have the rights to use the suite. Tickets and food are extra. 

I know Ingram Micro had one and was pretty sure it was about $250k and you had to have the food and drinks stocked as well at an extra cost. It all depends on the size of the suite. Pretty sure a few years ago you could get a smaller one for about 80k a year. I’d imagine those will go up to about 200k with the new stadium. 
 

which is why I am certain that a lot of the suite season tix holders will likely opt for club seats in the new stadium. There will be multiple tiers of club seats in the new stadium With different amenities like reclining chairs, tables, food and drink packages, etc. I think you’ll see a lot of the smaller suite holders like the small law firm I talked about, just go with clubs instead. They will cater to the new suite owners and you will like see some big names that you’ve never seen before in Buffalo taking some of those suites. 

[Mike in Horseheads]

15 hours ago, mrags said:

Pretty sure Ficta, Endel, and Elmer eyecare also have a suite. Also pretty sure Connor and Ferris have one. 

I think Corning Inc. has one

[SoMAn]

19 hours ago, RiotAct said:

oh man, how could I forget the Broadway Market.  They should be able to allocate the funds from Babcia’s Pierogies sales for a luxury box  at the brand-new stadium.

Free lamb butter in da private sweets when dey play da rams 

[mrags]

1 hour ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

I think Corning Inc. has one

Think I’ve seen their name on one of the doors actually. Which points out that it doesn’t just stay in the WNY area. Corning is like 2hrs away and they have one. 

[Mike in Horseheads]

2 minutes ago, mrags said:

Think I’ve seen their name on one of the doors actually. Which points out that it doesn’t just stay in the WNY area. Corning is like 2hrs away and they have one. 

Ya its 20 minutes away from Horseheads. Fortune 500 co.

[HOUSE]

I drove by this morning, it's a big hole and not a worker in sight, must be one of those union jobs

[mrags]

8 minutes ago, Bogie_Klinkhammer said:

I drove by this morning, it's a big hole and not a worker in sight, must be one of those union jobs

Saturday after thanksgiving weekend. Yeah. Must be it. 

[RobbRiddick]

19 minutes ago, Bogie_Klinkhammer said:

I drove by this morning, it's a big hole and not a worker in sight, must be one of those union jobs

 

Apparently they hit a gas line so Terry said "ah, frack it"

[145B4IDIE]

I’m thinking Tim Hortons had a suite🤔

 

maybe I’m thinking Sabres

Edited November 26, 2023 by 145B4IDIE

[boyst]

On 10/14/2023 at 6:35 PM, Warcodered said:

Felt like we reached bottom last Sunday.

Catching up with this thread and sadly this post didn't age well 😣

[SoCal Deek]

A bit off topic but still related when considered in relation to all this talk of luxury suites. My google feed today featured two articles on football coaching/management home prices. The recently fired Defensive Coordinator for the USC Trojans is selling his home in suburban Los Angeles for $4.5 million. That article also says the Trojans Head Coach, who fired him, lives in the next door neighborhood in a home valued at $17.5 million. Whereas Brandon Beane, Bills General Manager just sold his family home in suburban Buffalo for $1.5 million.