Good news from Hohokam Park

Finally some good news in the midst of all of this economic bad news, revenue is up about $1 million from Spring Training at Hohokam last year. This is fairly impressive combined with the $30 million that is poured into the local economy, especially since the stadium is in a residential area across from a graveyard. Here is a troubling stat from the article: "the Cubs accounted for 96,000 room nights at Valley hotels, with 34,000 in Mesa." So only about 1/3 of the people coming to the games in Mesa are staying in Mesa hotels? It makes you wonder where they are eating their food and doing their shopping?

The credit goes almost completely to the Cubs, however, because without such a marquee team, Mesa would be well behind the curve in spring training. Imagine if we had the Kansas City Royals or some other team in Mesa instead of the Cubs. What would it be like then?

Also, as other cities double up on their teams, isn't it about time that Mesa does the same?