UM Selling Suites, Club Seats For Single Games At TCF Bank Stadium

Univ. Of Minnesota Has Sold 31 Of 37 Suites On A Full-Season Basis At New TCF Bank Stadium

The Univ. of Minnesota (UM) has "started selling remaining suites and club seats for single games" at TCF Bank Stadium, which is set to open next month, according to John Vomhof Jr. of the MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL BUSINESS JOURNAL. UM has sold 31 of the stadium's 37 suites "on a full-season basis, leaving six suites available for each" of UM's seven home football games at a price of $4,250-8,500 per game. About half of the single-game suite inventory "is sold out." About 85 of the 251 indoor club seats "also are available," costing $250-425 per game. UM officials are "targeting the single-game sales at corporate groups, hoping they might later sign up for the entire 2010 season." The costs for premium seats are 80% "tax deductible." The single-game suites and club seats are the "only tickets left for the 2009 season" (MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL BUSINESS JOURNAL, 8/14 issue).

NEW ZIP CODE: CRAIN'S CLEVELAND BUSINESS' Joel Hammond wrote Univ. of Akron's (UA) new $61.5M, 30,000-seat Summa Field at InfoCision Stadium is "plenty impressive." All 16 of the stadium's 20-person suites "have been sold, at $20,000 a pop, while 34 of 38 four-person loges, at $5,000, have been sold." However, UA interim AD Hunter Yurachek said that sales for the 525 club seats at the stadium are "lagging, with about 125 commitments at $1,000 apiece." Yurachek said that the school's "early goal of 10,000 season tickets was 'aggressive,' and at 5,300 season tickets in hand, the school is nearly 75% to its more attainable goal of about 7,200." The new stadium replaces the 68-year-old, 31,000-seat Rubber Bowl (CRAINSCLEVELAND.com, 8/17).