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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: We are joined now by Danny Wurtz, chairman and CEO

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Speaker 2: of the Chicago Blackhawks, alongside Michael Ryans. We're a president

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Speaker 2: and CEO of the Chicago Bulls. They are both here

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Speaker 2: with us on set in Chicago. Welcome to you both.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for being Yes, it is a

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Speaker 2: power table.

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Speaker 1: That's so sure about that?

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Speaker 2: I don't know indeed, Well, obviously it's a big week

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Speaker 2: for you guys. I'm sure one that has had probably

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Speaker 2: a year or so of preparation leading up to it. Michael,

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Speaker 2: if we could just start with you talk to us

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Speaker 2: about the decision to host this convention at the United

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Speaker 2: Center and what all has gone into it and whether

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Speaker 2: or not this is the most lucrative thing you could

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Speaker 2: have done with a building of itself.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, clearly, it's not the most lucrative thing

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Speaker 3: we could do, because we've shut down our buildings since

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Speaker 3: the end of our season, so we've had no we

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Speaker 3: haven't booked any events for the last couple of months.

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Speaker 3: But to us, this was kind of a no brainer

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Speaker 3: when Governor Pritzker and Mayor Lifefoot came to us. We're

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Speaker 3: on board from the very beginning we had the convention

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Speaker 3: kind of kicked off. I think that a lot of

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Speaker 3: the redevelopment on the West Side in ninety six, So

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Speaker 3: the United Centers opened up in nineteen ninety four. This's

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Speaker 3: our thirtieth year, and the ninety six convention was a

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Speaker 3: complete success. And now it's many years later and we

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Speaker 3: want to do our part of supporting the city of

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Speaker 4: Fascinating, I'm really taken by the logistics behind something of

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Speaker 4: this scale. You can throw a concert, you can host

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Speaker 4: a game, but this is on a much larger level.

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Speaker 4: You have fifty thousand people attending, and I'm just curious

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Speaker 4: what goes into that type of a transformation.

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Speaker 1: Tremendous planning.

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Speaker 5: And the good thing is our team kind of at

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Speaker 5: the United Center are used to these, you know, one

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Speaker 5: hundred and fifty nights a year working games, concerts, et cetera,

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Speaker 5: big events like All Star Games. But this is another level,

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Speaker 5: and I know our team at the United Center kind

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Speaker 5: of liked the challenge of really rising to the occasion.

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Speaker 1: And then of course it's partnerships.

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Speaker 5: It's partnerships with all the city as sees and all

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Speaker 5: the people that have to make it all work, and

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Speaker 5: it's an impressive experience to go walk through and just

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Speaker 5: walking through last night and see all the pieces come

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Speaker 5: together to make the event.

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Speaker 6: Is it public service?

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Speaker 1: Though?

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Speaker 4: Also Kailee references the fact that you could be making

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Speaker 4: a lot more money doing something else.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's kind of in our DNA to

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Speaker 5: step up and to do the right thing for the city,

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Speaker 5: because when the city does well, we do well as

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Speaker 5: a business. And these conventions are big opportunities to put

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Speaker 5: the spotlight on our great city, to showcase what we

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Speaker 5: do so well, and to bring people and bring business

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Speaker 5: to Chicago.

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Speaker 2: Well, as we think about the work you're doing in Chicago,

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Speaker 2: obviously you announced a few weeks ago, as Tyler mentioned,

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Speaker 2: the nineteen oh one project, you're investing more than seven

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Speaker 2: billion dollars to reva basically the area where now the

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Speaker 2: area that surrounds the United Center. How do you fund that?

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Speaker 2: As we're having a conversation here about money.

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Speaker 1: Well, we're going to fund it privately.

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Speaker 3: You know, We're lucky because the United Center is kind

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Speaker 3: of the anchor tenant, so we have a chance to

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Speaker 3: redevelop the land, the parking lots, when we opened the building,

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Speaker 3: we had six thousand parking spaces available, and we.

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Speaker 1: Never we didn't want to make it a sea of parking.

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Speaker 3: But what happened with a lot of people bought parking,

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Speaker 3: actually became kind of a sea of parking. And now

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Speaker 3: we have this opportunity to reimagine this neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: It's not We're not Danny, I've talked.

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Speaker 3: This isn't It is not an entertainment district that you

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Speaker 3: see in a lot of other cities with their buildings,

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Speaker 3: their arenas and stadiums. This is an opportunity to do

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Speaker 3: something different for the West Side. So it will be

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Speaker 3: privately financed, and you know we're talking, we're talking a

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Speaker 3: we're building hotels, affordable housing, open park space. I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's it's kind of like Chicago's West Side. It's it's

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Speaker 3: their time, it's our time.

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Speaker 4: There's a big conversation about crime in this campaign that

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Speaker 4: you hear a lot about. I'm sure the former president

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump has been criticizing Chica of using crime statistics

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Speaker 6: We have to acknowledge the reality of the matter.

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Speaker 4: But when you consider an investment of that scale and

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Speaker 4: you look at the geography, is it.

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Speaker 6: You build it and they will come.

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Speaker 4: The timing is what I'm curious about considering the backdrop

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Speaker 4: of your investment here when it comes to crime in Chicago.

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Speaker 3: Well, we have a long term view, Danny. How long

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Speaker 3: has your family been been.

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Speaker 5: Here for almost one hundred years and tell you, you know,

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Speaker 5: crime has always been something that we've had to contend

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Speaker 5: with and work with. But we also know that when

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Speaker 5: when we invest in the neighborhoods and when you invest

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Speaker 5: in economic development, that is one way to help create

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Speaker 1: Of some of the crime issues you see today. So

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Speaker 5: Chicago has a history of really rolling up our sleeves

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Speaker 5: and trying to be part of the solution, try to partner,

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Speaker 5: you know, with the public sector to figure out how

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Speaker 5: do we how do we create those opportunities to help,

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Speaker 5: you know, stem some of those.

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Speaker 1: Problems from violence. Yeah, you have to understand one thing.

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Speaker 3: When the Unite Center opened, there was no one went

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Speaker 3: Ninety four, Mayor Daly wanted to bring the Convention to

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Speaker 3: make up for what happened in sixty eight. Ninety six

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Speaker 3: convention went off perfectly, and then all the developments started happening.

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Speaker 3: I don't think Fulton Market, which is just to the

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Speaker 3: the Uniteds that are kickstarting all this. So for us,

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Speaker 3: we're not worried about the timing.

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Speaker 1: We think the timing is right right now.

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Speaker 2: Well, the timing for having the public cooperation with investing

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Speaker 2: in things like stadiums, as we've seen evidence by say

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Speaker 2: There's been a lot of pushback in that. And I

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Speaker 2: know you just said that you're planning to finance this privately,

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Speaker 2: But what do you think about the dynamic surrounding the

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Speaker 5: Like crime, I think every situation is very different. Every

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Speaker 5: you know, wherever you're looking to do your development has

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Speaker 5: different opportunities, and I think it is that partnership, you know,

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Speaker 5: We know in our situation, you know, we own our land.

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Speaker 5: We've owned our land for a long time. We've been

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Speaker 5: you have a good feel of what the neighborhood needs,

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Speaker 5: how to find those nice trade offs and those important

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Speaker 5: trade offs between our commerce and what we need from

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Speaker 5: the community, and then you build it together. I think

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Speaker 5: other developments are going to obviously are putting that more

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Speaker 4: When you consider public private partnership and just the role

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Speaker 4: that you play in this city. You're no strangers to politics,

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Speaker 4: which is what we talk about every day here on

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Speaker 4: this program. Are politics making it more difficult to do

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Speaker 3: I mean, for us, I think that there seems to

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Speaker 3: seemed to be on board. Like to me, this was

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Speaker 4: They might want to take that meeting. Yea, his relationships

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Speaker 1: To you, of course. I mean we have.

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Speaker 3: You know, we have friendships going back many many years.

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Speaker 3: Now we have a new mayor here who just became

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Speaker 3: But like I said earlier, our families go back a

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Speaker 3: long long time. We're about Chicago, not about the politics.

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Speaker 1: It's what can we do to make Chicago a better place.

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Speaker 2: Well, a lot of the politics today, or at least

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Speaker 2: the political issues that seem to be dominating in there,

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Speaker 2: which obviously shut down facilities like the United Center for

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Speaker 2: an extended period of time, to this resurgence and demand

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Speaker 2: for that experience. People wanted to go to live events

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Speaker 2: like sports games and concerts. Now we're all asking this

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Speaker 5: For sports entertainment, I think it seems like every year

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Speaker 3: I think it's helped that in the music industry changed

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Speaker 3: it was really made the money. Now it's touring, so

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Speaker 3: now you have all these acts, and so every year

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Speaker 3: how many different concerts did we do last year? I mean,

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Speaker 3: I think we're almost eighty different content. It's kind of crazy.

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Speaker 3: So now we're building this music hall, which is a

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Speaker 3: of the smaller acts, and we don't see.

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Speaker 5: A softening right now, and especially in the markets like Chicago,

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Speaker 3: Sure, Chicago, Yah, Chicago loves the sports. So we feel

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Speaker 4: But it's an interesting take that you have just broadly

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Speaker 4: beyond even spending on events, sports and concerts, you don't

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Speaker 1: I think.

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Speaker 3: I think what we see is that you better make

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Speaker 3: sure that you are delivering a special experience from the

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Speaker 3: things about this DNC is that it's in the summer

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Speaker 3: right about that, not here in the winter.

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Speaker 2: I have to say, the weather right now is certainly preferable.

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Speaker 1: We ordered up for you guys yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 2: I want to ask as well, because something we just

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Speaker 2: saw happen in Washington last year was the purchase of

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Speaker 2: a sports team for a pretty rich valuation in the Commanders.

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Speaker 2: We've seen the valuations seem to go up in general,

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Speaker 2: and I wonder if you think this is something that

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Speaker 2: is sustainable. How you're considering your own valuation for the

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Speaker 2: black Hawks at this time, if you've been having any

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Speaker 2: conversations with private equity about these kind of things, can

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Speaker 2: you just shed some light on.

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Speaker 5: That, Danny, I'm fourth generation owner of our family, I think,

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Speaker 5: one of the longest contiguous owners of a major sports

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Speaker 5: franchise in all sports, and enough for us, it's something

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Speaker 5: we just hold really dear to our family. So we're

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Speaker 5: sort of in a very unique situation from an ownership standpoint, which,

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Speaker 5: of course the interests in these very coveted licenses are

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Speaker 5: driving those values up. So we love the valuation, but

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Speaker 5: it doesn't necessarily change our strategy to continue to hold

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Speaker 5: and develop and grow our family asset for another few generations.

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Speaker 3: And what about for the Bulls, for the Bulls, I

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Speaker 3: mean for the Chicago Bulls, who why would we want

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Speaker 3: to get out of being part of the Chicago Bulls.

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Speaker 3: I mean we were the first, probably the first global

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Speaker 3: for our family and for our investors, our partners, we're

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Speaker 3: not interested in being a seller. Is it nice that

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Speaker 3: the valuations of these teams are going up. Sure, but

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Speaker 3: at the same time we're not going to realize any

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Speaker 3: of that because it's the Bulls aren't going anywhere.

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Speaker 4: Well, we have another big sports deal in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 4: And that was Ted Leonsen's teams deciding to stay in

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Speaker 6: Rebuild the neighborhood.

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Speaker 4: He talked to us about the challenges of moving buildings,

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Speaker 4: changing spaces that allow people to flow into a new

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Speaker 4: area that they might not be going to otherwise. You're

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Speaker 4: facing something similar here when you've got a river in

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Speaker 4: the way, You've got a couple of things. How do

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Speaker 4: you envision this project in western Chicago in a way

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Speaker 4: that will actually.

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Speaker 6: Bring the flow of people to Europe.

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Speaker 5: I actually think the hardest part was thirty years ago,

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Speaker 5: as Michael said, you know, crossing that threshold to come

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Speaker 5: to the West Side to see an event, and you

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Speaker 5: know over seventy years.

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Speaker 1: You know, people got used to coming to the Chicago.

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Speaker 5: Stadium, but it didn't offer a lot on the way

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Speaker 5: where we're at now. The growth happening on the west

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Speaker 5: side of Chicago is tremendous. Full Market is the most

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Speaker 5: explosive neighborhood in the city of Chicago. That's right at

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Speaker 5: lot of other things happening around this development that I

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Speaker 5: think gave us the confidence that the energy is and

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Speaker 5: that's an area where I think I think the city

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Speaker 5: are to make sure we can continue to bring people

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Speaker 5: all the things we need for this to be continued

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Speaker 5: by our neighborhood.

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Speaker 4: What a treat to have this much time. Thank you

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Speaker 4: both for being so generous, A great conversation here. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: this is why we came to Chicago's Denny Words Michael Reinstorff.

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Speaker 4: Great to see both of you, and thank you for

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Speaker 4: being with US on balance of power, Bloomberg TV and Radio.

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Speaker 4: We are live from Chicago, day two of the Democratic

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Speaker 4: National Convention,