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Public Use? Local Economic Development?
The
Brooklyn Eagle
reports that Forest City Ratner/Enterprises (FCEA)
has announced an exclusive soda deal with Seattle-based Jones Soda Company (JSDA)
to deliver their 28 flavors of soda to ticketholders in the Barclays Center Arena
(named for the British banking giant who paid an estimated $400 million for naming
rights for Bruce Ratner's arena).
Yup, and here is the sound of the great public uses and local economic development
Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project has to offer, from the Nets' marketing guru
Brett Yormark as quoted in the Eagle:
Seattle-based Jones Soda Company officially joined U.K.-based Barclays
Bank and the New Jersey Nets as the third out-of-town company expected to make
a grand entry into the Brooklyn marketplace once the planned Atlantic Yards
arena is built.
...
“I think you’re going to find that the sponsors and our partners, they’ll
be some that are very new to the marketplace. And we firmly believe that the
Barclays Center is going to help build brands that want to come into the metro
area,” Brett Yormark, president and CEO of Nets Sports and Entertainment, told
the Eagle. Yormark declined to disclose the terms of the seven-year deal, but
Conde Nast reported it as $1.7 million per year.
... And in response to some man-on-the-street consternation about Jones Soda Company over Coke or Pepsi:
...“We’ve worked with all of them before [Coca-Cola and Pepsi], we
currently work with all of them in New Jersey,” said Yormark. “At the end of
the day, Jones was the most compelling opportunity for us when you factor in
the financial benefits, but most importantly the brand activation opportunities
to not only glamorize the Barclays Center but to glamorize our franchise.”
Ahhh, the sweet, glamorous sound and taste of carbonated, publicly
used sugar water.
Posted: 11.06.07
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