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Speaker 1: You're listening to Taking Stock with Kathleen Hayes and Pim

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Speaker 1: Box on Bloomberg Radio. Very special edition of Taking Stock

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Speaker 1: Live from the twenties sixteen US Tennis Open, Flushing Meadow,

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Speaker 1: Queen's is where we are. We're very happy to be

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Speaker 1: here as we are this year. And in fact it's

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Speaker 1: an historic here. And it's not historic yet because of

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Speaker 1: the matches or who leaves at the end holding that big,

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Speaker 1: beautiful silver cup over their head, it's because of the roof.

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Speaker 1: The roof FW is t A bought so hard, worked

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Speaker 1: so hard to get built operated. Last night as Roth

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Speaker 1: and Nadal played a very exciting match, he beat Andreas

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Speaker 1: Seppi of Italy, but I think he seemed happy at

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Speaker 1: about the fact he was the first player to win

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Speaker 1: on center court with that roof closed over his head.

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Speaker 1: Danny's Housner back, Chief Operating Officer of US Tennis is Association,

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Speaker 1: one of the really important forces behind this happening. Danny,

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Speaker 1: Welcome and congratulations. Thank you so much. Great to have

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Speaker 1: you back. Wow, so here we are. Are. Just remind

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Speaker 1: our listeners you know money had to be raised. This

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Speaker 1: was a really big deal and it was It was

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Speaker 1: a debated for so long whether or not the U

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Speaker 1: s t A, whether this this expense should be made here. Well,

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Speaker 1: I could bore you with weather data from over a

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Speaker 1: hundred years. That week before and after Labor Day. It's

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Speaker 1: relatively dry period of time. But as you know, we

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Speaker 1: had men's finals moved to Monday five years in a row.

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Speaker 1: It hadn't happened in thirty years. It was the right

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Speaker 1: thing to do for the players, the fans, and all

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Speaker 1: of our partners. It just took a long time to

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Speaker 1: find the engineering results that would give us this spectacular

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Speaker 1: roof that we have on the building. So tell us

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Speaker 1: what was so hard about the engineering? What? What does

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Speaker 1: this embody now in terms of engineering? Because other you know,

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Speaker 1: like that, they don't doesn't the Australia has a retract

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Speaker 1: where other places do as well. What is the engineering

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Speaker 1: feat here? So first and foremost, this is the first

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Speaker 1: time in the United States that we're actually building our

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Speaker 1: attractive the roof over an existing stadium. If it was

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Speaker 1: part of the original design, it would have been done

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Speaker 1: at one time. But Fleshy Meadows Corona Park, where we're

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Speaker 1: housed was an ash dump in the twenties and thirties,

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Speaker 1: So the land conditions here are a less than ideal.

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Speaker 1: If you put a roof on this existing structure, everything

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Speaker 1: is so what about the financing in terms of what

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Speaker 1: incredible roof. In total, we're gonna be spending in extus

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Speaker 1: of six hundred million dollars on all the upgrades, and

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Speaker 1: not just the roof. But I mean, I I must

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Speaker 1: say I love the old Grandstand stadium. Um, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: still driving eight hundred million dollars of economic impact for

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Speaker 1: the ones that people most want to see because you

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Speaker 1: we're gonna just keep going in. Obviously, when we will

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Speaker 1: I'm Kathleen Hayes. We're live with the US Open. This

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Speaker 1: is Bloomberg. There are sponsors, there are fans. There's all

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