The current NFL lockout could have a huge affect on some NFL cities but few would be more affected than the city of Green Bay. “It’s an important company here in the city, it’s our identity, we use the Packers for marketing, but at the end of the day they need to work that out internally,” says Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt. If there were to be no season for the Green Bay Packers many local business would take a huge hit in business and no industry may take a bigger hit than the hotel industry and local bars.
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| Hilton Garden Inn |
Local hotels and bars thrive on the Packers and depend on them for business. The local hotels depend on out of town visitors to come the weekend of Packer home games to generate business and without that they would most likely have to close. Marci Johnson, Sales Director for the Hilton Garden Inn Green Bay had this to say,” Not having those games will have a major impact on the hotels in this area,". Other business such as Packer apparel shops need traffic that game days generate, “"That's our business...that's when we bring in all our money that gets us through the off season is the football games," says store manager Heidi Tanner. So if the NFL lockout continues and there is no season a good amount of local businesses would be financially devastated.
"Potential NFL Lockout Could Have Big Impact On Local Businesses." NBC 26. NBC News 26, 24 Nov. 2010. Web. 15 May 2011. <• http://www.nbc26.com/story/13560442/potential-nfl-lockout-could-have-big-impact-on-local-businesses?redirected=true>.
Hilton Garden Inn. Digital image. HiltonGardenInn.com. Web. 15 May 2011. <http://i1.bookcdn.com/data/Photos/LargePhoto2/13/1365/1365013/Hilton-Garden-Inn-Green-Bay-photos-Hotel.JPEG>.
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