The first stage of a $850 million renovation of Madison Square Garden is complete, Crain’s reported. On the event level, there are 20 new luxury suites, with 10 to 12 seats so that fans can sit rather than stand, as they were doing previously. There’s also a 10,000-square-foot Delta Sky360 Club in what was formerly an underused storage area.
“A project like this has never been done before, an active arena being transformed,” Hank Ratner, CEO of Madison Square Garden, said. The first phase of the renovation also includes an expanded sixth-floor concourse — three times as wide as the previous one, and expanded locker rooms for home sports teams the Knicks and the Rangers.
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