Why don't the Coyotes and Panthers share an arena with an NBA team? This is something that has puzzled me for a long time. Wouldn't the Heat and the Suns be willing to let their NHL neighbors share their arena with them? Why is that not the case?

In the Coyotes case the Suns arena was designed specifically for basketball. Playing hockey there leaves part of the obstructed by the upper deck. For the Panthers, while the Heat's arena is designed to accommodate hockey, it seems that Broward County wanted to lure the Panthers to a location where they would be the primary tenant

It's as simple as teams don’t like sharing.

(05-25-2023 08:16 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  In the Coyotes case the Suns arena was designed specifically for basketball. Playing hockey there leaves part of the obstructed by the upper deck. For the Panthers, while the Heat's arena is designed to accommodate hockey, it seems that Broward County wanted to lure the Panthers to a location where they would be the primary tenant

Jerry Colangelo never wanted to share his arena. While it was supposed to be multi-purpose and designed for an NHL team, he screwed the taxpayers over with his design, that makes it unwatchable for 1/4 the arena for hockey.


Then he negotiated the lease with the City (that owns the Arena) where he got all the money from parking, signs, etc plus a cut of all other events there.
Leaving very little native revenue for the Coyotes.

Staying at what was then America West Arena was not viable for another tenant

(05-25-2023 08:16 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  In the Coyotes case the Suns arena was designed specifically for basketball. Playing hockey there leaves part of the obstructed by the upper deck. For the Panthers, while the Heat's arena is designed to accommodate hockey, it seems that Broward County wanted to lure the Panthers to a location where they would be the primary tenant

It had to do with then-Panthers owner, Wayne Huizenga, who was a Broward County proponent. More importantly, Huizenga's brother-in-law, Harris Hudson, tried to buy the controlling shares of the Heat in 1994 from Zev Buffman, Billy Cunningham and Lewis Schaffel, but it was later revealed that in 1989, the partners signed an agreement to give control of the team to their fourth partner, Ted Arison (father of current Heat owner, Mickey).

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Da...-HEAT.aspx

That ruined any relationship between the two families for co-tenants in new downtown Miami building. Look up "Blockbuster Park", because Huizenga wanted to build a theme park and 46,000 seat domed stadium neat the site of the current Hard Rock Stadium as it straddles the Broward-Dade line.

(05-25-2023 02:00 PM)dbackjon Wrote:  

(05-25-2023 08:16 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  In the Coyotes case the Suns arena was designed specifically for basketball. Playing hockey there leaves part of the obstructed by the upper deck. For the Panthers, while the Heat's arena is designed to accommodate hockey, it seems that Broward County wanted to lure the Panthers to a location where they would be the primary tenant

Jerry Colangelo never wanted to share his arena. While it was supposed to be multi-purpose and designed for an NHL team, he screwed the taxpayers over with his design, that makes it unwatchable for 1/4 the arena for hockey.


Then he negotiated the lease with the City (that owns the Arena) where he got all the money from parking, signs, etc plus a cut of all other events there.
Leaving very little native revenue for the Coyotes.

Staying at what was then America West Arena was not viable for another tenant

(05-27-2023 12:54 PM)Renandpat Wrote:  

(05-25-2023 08:16 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  In the Coyotes case the Suns arena was designed specifically for basketball. Playing hockey there leaves part of the obstructed by the upper deck. For the Panthers, while the Heat's arena is designed to accommodate hockey, it seems that Broward County wanted to lure the Panthers to a location where they would be the primary tenant

It had to do with then-Panthers owner, Wayne Huizenga, who was a Broward County proponent. More importantly, Huizenga's brother-in-law, Harris Hudson, tried to buy the controlling shares of the Heat in 1994 from Zev Buffman, Billy Cunningham and Lewis Schaffel, but it was later revealed that in 1989, the partners signed an agreement to give control of the team to their fourth partner, Ted Arison (father of current Heat owner, Mickey).

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Da...-HEAT.aspx

That ruined any relationship between the two families for co-tenants in new downtown Miami building. Look up "Blockbuster Park", because Huizenga wanted to build a theme park and 46,000 seat domed stadium neat the site of the current Hard Rock Stadium as it straddles the Broward-Dade line.

Thanks for the additional info guys.