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The tennis tournament seems to become less and less attended every year. It also seems that it is not promoted locally to businesses or residents well. Maybe a tennis tournament is not the right use of the majority of market new happens resources. Is it time to find something that is more in line with the cultural fit of the city of New Haven to really sell the image of our great city.
Vote here if you think it's time to reconsider the tennis tournament as a use of tax payer dollars.
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NHVCyclist (Utilisateur inscrit)
KTB (Utilisateur inscrit)
Jane (Utilisateur inscrit)
Noxinwj (Utilisateur inscrit)
I'm relatively new to the region and after seeing the tournament for the last three years, would tend to agree with the OP that it should at least be given an evaluation. It shouldn't be continued on legacy and inertia alone if it isn't still the highest and best use of those public resources in terms of serving the New Haven community and creating economic benefit for our local businesses. That said, I'd be quite interested in learning more about the long history with tennis and would love to know where I can find that information so I can change my mind! If they won't market too me, I'll seek it out.
I pass the stadium almost daily and find it sad that it only really sees use for two weeks of the year. I think the developers have learned a lesson from this facility and the Coliseum in preparation of the new $80M velodrome which is planned to create every-day value for the community through multiple sports offerings. (http://www.nhregister.com/sports/20160721/new-haven-group-eyes-multi-sports-complex-professional-world-cycling-league-franchise-for-city)
NHVCyclist (Utilisateur inscrit)
Then it seems like this is an issue with A) Lack of marketing of the event, at least within the city, and B) Lack of utilization of the space for the vast majority of the year.
The solution seems to be to A) Increase marketing (shouldn't be too difficult), and B) Develop & attract other uses for the space (more challenging but worth doing - learn the lessons of the coliseum).
Not holding the tournament does not seem to be the solution for either issue - it would only make the situation worse.
We no longer have Ravens minor league baseball, the Coliseum events such as large concerts, hockey, car shows, monster trucks, etc.
Pushing out a sporting event that we do have would be a totally backwards approach.
Jane (Utilisateur inscrit)
I agree.
By the way, tennis started in New Haven way, way back (approx 30+ years) when there was a Challenger level event sponsored by Pilot Pen. It had the up-and-comers. I saw Agassi before anyone knew who he was. It was so fun!
NadineSCF (Utilisateur inscrit)
Hi all, this is Nadine, Engagement Advocate for SeeClickFix. This looks like a great discussion for our new SeeClickFix Community Slack Channel that we will be launching next week! This channel will be an open space for discussion of topics that don't fit the usual issue categories on SeeClickFix, and will allow for dialogue that is respectful, pragmatic, and useful to the concerns and ideas of its members.
Send me an email at nadine.herring@seeclickfix.com and I'd be happy to send out an invite to all those interested.
KTB (Utilisateur inscrit)
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