Nationals Lowering Season Ticket Prices For 7,500 Seats
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Nationals Lowering Season Ticket Prices Next
Season For 7,500 Seats At Nationals Park |
The Nationals next season will "lower season ticket prices for 7,500 seats, including 3,400 in the lower bowl," while all other tickets in the 41,888-seat Nationals Park will remain the same price, according to Chico Harlan of the WASHINGTON POST. Most of the "price reductions affect seats between the foul poles -- outfield seats that this year often were the last to fill." The most significant price change "comes with box seats at the very ends of the first and third base lines," where $45 seats will drop to just $30. The Nationals entered this season, their first at Nationals Park, "knowing that ticket pricing is an inexact science, especially in a new ballpark in a relatively new market," and the price change is "something of a market correction." Nationals President Stan Kasten: "Everything in the first year of a park is surprising. We had to learn as we went along. After being here the first year, we watched the usage patterns -- the purchasing patterns -- and we thought it made some sense to lower the price on tickets that we'll make available next year." Kasten added that the team "won't announce prices of individual game tickets until the end of the season" (WASHINGTON POST, 9/4). The Nationals said that the average per-game price for season tickets next year will be $29. The Presidents Club and Diamond Club seats behind home plate will remain at $300 and $150 per game, respectively. In DC, Tim Lemke wrote the price adjustment "to the right and left field corner seats creates a uniformity of pricing throughout the section that will reduce confusion," as opposed to this season, when there were "three different pricing levels in those sections" (WASHINGTONTIMES.com, 9/3).
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