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Billy Joel Set For Soldout Nassau Coliseum Sendoff Before Venue's Major Overhaul

Billy Joel, a Long Island native who has performed at the Nassau Coliseum 31 times, tonight "will give the ailing arena a fitting sendoff" with a "final sold-out concert before it closes" for a $130M renovation, according to Katherine Clarke of the N.Y. DAILY NEWS. Forest City Ratner Chair & CEO Bruce Ratner is behind the "massive revamp starting later this month." Barclays Center CEO Brett Yormark, who is heading up the project for Ratner, said, "Let’s face it, it’s one of the oldest venues in the country. It certainly needs to be recreated. Long Island is a world class market and it deserves a world class venue." The Coliseum's seating capacity as part of the project will "be reduced to 13,000 from around 17,000, and the exterior facade will be completely reskinned" by N.Y.-based SHoP Architects. Levy Restaurants, the "same company that handles food concessions at Barclays, will take over" at the Coliseum (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 8/2).

BIGGER ISN'T BETTER: SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL's Don Muret reports the Coliseum will undergo "dramatic physical changes to its premium offerings, most notably a loge box retrofit, a major reduction in suites and the consolidation of two event-level restaurants into one high-end club." The venue will have "about 4,700 fewer seats." Yormark said that downsizing should make the Coliseum "more attractive for booking minor league, college and high school sports." Muret notes the arena’s 33 suites will be "cut down to six, all in the south end facing the stage end for concerts." They will "have movable walls to provide flexibility for selling individual units or one large group space" (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 8/3 issue).

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