Sphere bounces: London rejects venue's second proposed location
London leaders rejected a twin of the Las Vegas sphere that MSG Entertainment wanted to build in Stratford, a residential and university town.
City documents reported by the BBC show that officials, including London Mayor Sadiq Khan, called the move "harmful to human health" and would cause "significant" harm to "hundreds of people" in the area.
The second spherical concert hall is approximately 300 feet high and 400 feet wide. It's about 20 percent smaller than the Vegas version, but still nearly as tall as Big Ben. It can accommodate a similar number of people: 18,000.
“The Sphere was designed for Vegas,” Stop the MSG Sphere London spokesperson Lindesay Mace told The Telegraph last month. "It was not designed for a small site surrounded by three blocks of flats. The developer has insulted the residents by providing blackout blinds. Part of our group lives across the street."
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According to the BBC, a spokesperson for Sphere Entertainment responded to the news with the following: "While we are disappointed with London's decision, there are many forward-thinking cities keen to bring this technology to their communities. This will be our goal." Emphasis. "
During the company's earnings call in August, Sphere Entertainment Chairman and CEO James Dolan said he wanted to add more Sphere globally.
Sphere is a new, never-before-seen medium that we believe will take the world by storm," Dolan said at the time."We designed the Sphere product for a market where other markets only had 2,500 seats and took less than Two years. "
Las Vegas welcomes The Sphere to its skyline, with its exterior LED display the largest in the world, congratulations to the Oakland Athletics on becoming Las Vegas’ next professional sports team, and last weekend’s inaugural Las Vegas The tourists won from pole position during the Grand Prix of Gas. With its crazy emojis and giant winking eyeballs, it just makes people laugh.
But at least for now, the sphere only happens in Vegas and stays there.
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Source: www.casino.org
