April 1997 Inland Empire Business Journal

California State University, San Bernardino CSUSB ScholarWorks Inland Empire Business Journal John M. Pfau Library 9-1997 April 1997 Inland Empire Business Journal Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/iebusinessjournal Part of the Business Commons Recommended Citation Inland Empire Business Journal, "April 1997" (1997). Inland Empire Business Journal. Paper 238. http://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/iebusinessjournal/238 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the John M. Pfau Library at CSUSB ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Inland Empire Business Journal by an authorized administrator of CSUSB ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. See Page 10 RE rna Cliff Cummings VOLUME 9, NUMBER 4 APRIL 1997 $2.00 SPECIAl SECTION cil by Mathew Padilla "Ontario is the leader in the next to its airport, which has WOMEN IN BUSINESS 19 region," Wapner said. "The only expansion plans of its own. If you bUild it, they will come. We thing we are lacking is professional But according to Wapner the SECOND PAGE 3 33 hope. City needs more, -any politician. and he is looking EXCLUSIVE TO IEBJ 41 to a sports arena to GOVERNOR PETE WILSON Councilman Alan Wapner has a provide that miss INDIAN GAMING OPINION vision for Ontario. He sees a sports ing link. Council arena filled with cheering crowds man Gary Ovill DESERT BUSINESS JOURNAL 54 and an influx of tourists, tossmg agrees. money gaily at ticket booths, con "We would cession stands, and neighboring have a chance to AT DEADLINE businesses. have our own Wapner and other Ontario teams and follow Hotel Owners Cancel Ontario council members are flirting with them," Ovin said. Expansion the idea of bu1ldmg a $35 million, And there Mitch Gorton poses with Quakes merchandi.se, which he sells The owners of the Ontario 12,000-seat arena, which would it is; on the sim inside the Epicenter, Rancho Cucamonga's baseball stadium. Marriott Hotel have canceled plans feature an ice rink and basketball plest level politi to expand the hotel by 300 rooms. court. He hopes a minor league bas sports." cians want professional sports Outrigger Hotels and Resorts, ketball and hockey team will play Ontario has blossomed into a teams to play in a major sports which owns the Ontario hotel, plans in the arena, bringing large crowds city of more than 145,000 residents. facility in their city to excite and to focus its energies on two major to Ontario. It is building a convention center unite residents. The glory of it all developments in Honolulu, said has swept the country; sports are Jeffrey Brown, hotel general manag nas and stadiums are being erected er. The company, which pays for the with fervor. Marriott name here, is renovating or by Sieve Pastorino more than $! 00,000 for an "It's the "A conservative estimate is constructing three hotels and an cheese" promotional campaign. entertainment center on one property When the California League cominued on Page 5 and a 2000-room hotel on another throws out the first pitch of its 53rd sea Mavericks son this month, baseball in the Inland properly. The modern era began in the High Major Sports Facility Empire will have come of age. Desert in 1991, when Mavericks Brown declined to comment on The Storm, Quakes, Mavericks owner Bobby Brett relocated the Announced for the reason for dropping the Ontario and Stampede have grown up in seven Riverside Red Wave to a state-of-the expansion, except to make a general Palm Springs short years, building modern. fan art 3.800-seal stad1um along 1-395 in statement that the company decided friendly stadiums that should attract Adelanto. The construction of a major its time would be better mvested in a over 1.5 million fans this season. Though even long-time sports complex, wh1ch will feature more ambitious project. Together, Lake Elsinore, San California League President Joe a 7,000-seat, Olympic-size hockey Bernardino, Rancho Cucamonga, and Gagliardi doubted baseball could suc arena, additional rinks, and enough Cox Buys Ritmo Radio Adelanto comprise the richest concen ceed at friendly Mavericks Stadium, arcade-related entertainment for a Cox Broadcast, a national com tration of Minor League baseball m the Mavericks remain the pride of the stand-alone family fun center, was munications firm based in Atlanta, is America. Victor Valley seven years and 1.1 mil announced in Palm Springs late buying Ritmo radio station for about The teams employ approximately 75 lion fans later. last month. $19 million, said Daniel Crowe, the full-lime and nearly 600 seasonal The franchiSe IS the most afford Harry Henderson, president of employees. Team budgets near $2 mil able - with free parking, a top ticket station's general manager. Atrium Enterprises, inc., said con lion. pnce of $5, and hot dogs and sodas for Crowe said Ritmo, KRTO FM struction will begm in September Each team is an integral part of $1 each. Unique ideas in action 98.3, is a Spanish station with a large of this year, with plans to open in the Inland Empire marketing scene, include a hand-operated out-of-town Sponsored By audience in Ontario. pumping a total of $400,000 in adver scoreboard, the Desert Community December 1998. The facility will The deal is still bcmg hammered tising into the economy while serving Bank Diamond Club for season ticket be built on the Market Fa1r Land of Opportunity 1996/1997 out, Crowe said, so further details as an effective advertising alternative holders, the nightly Mena Cookies Grounds on the comer of Ramon i1PP1.e.ii1e are not available. for local and national sponsors. For Cookie Crumble Dance, and an array and Crossley Road. Atrium holds Employment Services example, the California Milk continued on Page 18 Advisory Board recently committed contmued on Page 5 continued on Page 34 APRJL 1997 INLAND EMPIRE BUSINESS J OUR NAL • PAGE 5 Council members gamble on sports continued from Page 3 when seeking revenue sources. otherwise spend the money to see a Quantum Entertamment Group, agreed to play in the new fac1hty. DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS NEWS AND FEATURES that there are 30 stadiums proposed Wapner and Ovitt used the movie or have a nice dinner and or under construction for the pro terms "destination city," a key term catch a show. A three member majority on AT DEADLI E .............................................................................................3 COUNCIL MEMBERS GAMBLE ON SPORTS .......................... 3 fessional sports industry," wrote in Baade's article, and "destination the council voted to build the stadi COMMENTARY: CALIFORNIA'S OVERTIME .................................... 6 Robert Baade, an economics pro point" to describe how Ontario Paying Through the Nose um and agreed to a fmancing MINOR LEAGUE HITS HOME RUN .......................................... 3 PRO-CON ................................................................................................ 7 fessor at Lake Forest College, m the could change afler the constmction Whether ll's to cre~te a ''desti arrangement, which gave the own CORPORATE PROFILE: GREAT DIN I G ............................................ 8 MAJOR SPORTS FACILITY/PALM SPRJNGS ........................... 3 December 1996 publication of Real of a new arena. nation city'' or simply 10 provide ers of the Storm a huge chunk of CLOSE UP: CLIFF CUMMINGS ........................................................... !0 Estate Issues. Destination cities link conven entertainment to residents. building stadium revenues from ticket sales, FRAUD: THE SOFTWARE YOU DIDN'T ORDER ........•.......... t2 a sports facility can be a financial parking fees, and concessions. EXPORT!NG ...................................•.......................................................... ll The bilt for those stadiums tion centers, airports, highways, exceeds $4 biltion. That som may stadiums and arenas into a single fiasco. Construction costs rose beyond MANAG! G ............................................................................................... l4 SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY AWARDED $300,000 ................... 18 seem surprising, but what is even economic package des•gned to Major sports leagues in expectations when seating was THE EMPLOYERS GROUP .................................................................... IS HOW MUCH SHOULD ONE PERSON FORGIVE ..................... .3t more alarming is that as co~ts to attract visitors. America function as cartels; !hey increased by 50 percent and work PEOPLE, PLACES & EVENTS ..............................................................• I6 build stadiums and arenas are ns The theory is that visitors wilt have limited membership and can ers were hard pressed to meet an FAIRPLEX POPULAR SHOW DESTINATION .........................38 LIST: HOTEL ~tEETING FACIL!TIES....................................... .......... 27 ing, cities are assuming more and spend money in the destination city, be choosy about awarding a new April 1994 openmg day commit BEST-SELLING BUSINESS BOOKS .....................................................37 HOUSE MEMBERS BEGIN FIGHT FOR CREDIT UNIONS.40 more of the financial burden. which will lead to higher tax rev franchise. This means cities must ment The city made a $10 million LISI\ TOPTRA\"ELAGENCIES ............................................................ 44 Ontario council members have enue and economic development compete with each other for teams. bond issue, owned by Sumltomo SMALL BUSI ESSES OW HAVE A CFO ............................•.

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