HurricaneKid wrote:Nah, NBA All-Star weekend is a BIG THING. They need capacity for hotels we likely don't have (that the Twin Cities ABSOLUTELY has), etc. Comparing it to ANY golf event shows a lack of understanding of how many visitors we will be expecting.
https://www.ibj.com/articles/66665-indianapolis-to-host-2021-nba-all-star-game-espn-says
Still, Indy has it in 2021 and while they are a good deal bigger, I think we should be in the running.
The PGA Championship regularly brings courses over 200,000 visitors. That is unique visitors - not the same person coming on four days being counted four times. Whistling Straits' last championship was estimated over $100M economic impact, also.
ETA:
https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2017/06/09/u-s-open-economic-impact-130m-total-65m-in.html
$130M economic impact for Erin Hills' Us Open. That is more than cited numbers for New Orleans' last all-star game.