Have you seen the monster new billboards at the Sprint Center? Located on the southwest corner, near the loading docks, two recently installed and operational billboards are disturbing what was once a great view. The Sprint Center says the billboards will be used to promote events and to “plug” its corporate sponsors.
The Source could write about how this billboard seems to violate Kansas City’s new anti-billboard ordinance, but another blog* has covered that well. Our purpose is to ask why a billboard, paid for by tax dollars along with the rest of the Sprint Center, is being used to promote private enterprise.
AEG has continually hidden behind the mask of private enterprise, despite the fact that tax money funded the arena. They steadfastly refuse to release information about the operations of the arena, specifically where it relates to their “founding partners” or suite holders.
The Source thinks it is even more important, now that those founding partners are being advertised outside the arena using tax dollars, that all contract information be released by AEG. We deserve to know if these “partners” are receiving sweetheart deals on tickets, suites and advertising both inside and outside the arena.
*Yes, a tip of the hat to Tony’s Kansas City whose comments encouraged us to finally write about something we had been pondering for weeks
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