One Spark 2014! Live Coverage and Weekend Streaming!

[Noone]

 I wasn't arrested or my vessel seized. Scott Wilson feel free to jump in here. I'm happy that I was able to participate in One Spark. 2014-190 in Finance tomorrow. CRA/DIA in the USA has one more opportunity for Public Comment before being advanced to the Jacksonville city council for approval. Open our river in our new DIA zone. Please.

[James Eddy]

One Spark hands down has put Jacksonville on the Map. I was there 3 days out of 5. If the crowds was not that big I would be surprised.

[tufsu1]

Superbowl cost 12.9 million dollars to bring to the city.

And it only really brought about 100 thousand people to town.

sure...but there were another 100+ million that watched the game (not to mention all the coverage leading up to the game) worldwide.

that said, One Spark (as an annual event) is much bigger for Jacksonville than any one Super Bowl could ever hope to be.

[wordofmouse]

If your analogy is to be promoted as fact. Then next year charge an entrance fee and get an exact account to compare to $100  for a S.Bowl ticket. If you work for the TU, go back and read the economic impact of the need to bring the S.Bowl to town. You guys keep over hyping this event, be sure to step up when the curtain is pulled back and expose truth in cost, value and return on investment.

[BridgeTroll]

If your analogy is to be promoted as fact. Then next year charge an entrance fee and get an exact account to compare to $100  for a S.Bowl ticket. If you work for the TU, go back and read the economic impact of the need to bring the S.Bowl to town. You guys keep over hyping this event, be sure to step up when the curtain is pulled back and expose truth in cost, value and return on investment.

Not sure there is a bigger football fan and promoter than I... but I would rather have One Spark every year to an occasional Super Bowl everytime... No contest.

[Steve]

If your analogy is to be promoted as fact. Then next year charge an entrance fee and get an exact account to compare to $100  for a S.Bowl ticket. If you work for the TU, go back and read the economic impact of the need to bring the S.Bowl to town. You guys keep over hyping this event, be sure to step up when the curtain is pulled back and expose truth in cost, value and return on investment.

You keep asking us for our sources. Mine are the local media as well as JTA for the skyway numbers...I do trust them to read a turnstile.

Now, since you're the only one that is convinced that the event wasn't that big...what are your sources? Did you not feel it was crowded when you were there? What day(s) were you there?

Also...tickets for the Super Bowl were $500 for general bowl that year, and $600 for club. Not that many people pay face value anyway, but those were the numbers. Out of the 8000 Super Bowl volunteers, I was one of 200 volunteer captains for the event, overseeing a different area every day, from hospitality at the airport to helping the Eagles at their hotel. This is definitely not to toot my own horn, but I did work with them for over two years leading up to the event, so I had an idea of it's impact...and this was better, dollar for dollar, and a much more sustainable event year in and year out.