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to purchase luxury suites and club seats. ere are some individuals who buy these
products or amenities, but businesses are the primary clients that teams look to when
selling their suites and club seats. Regions with a larger number of businesses with
robust corporate payrolls are likely to purchase more suites. e cities where the aver-
age household has the most amount of money available to spend on sports include
Boston, Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle. Corporate payrolls were highest in New
York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Notice again that in the Cleveland area household
spending and corporate payrolls were far below those in other region. In the Phoenix
area, households had a reasonably robust ...