Ice Park revenues continue to increase

Ice park officials presented the annual financial report to the Springfield-Greene County Park Board at the board’s bi-weekly meeting May 13. Among the items discussed was financial information for the park. Jodie Adams, assistant director of parks for Springfield and Greene County, said a nine-month review showed that revenues were up $50,000 over the same period the previous year.

Ice Park Manager Jeff Cumley added that projections for 2005 show park revenues should be about $80,000 ahead of 2004.

While revenues from ticket and concession sales for Spirit games went to the team rather than the arena, the park will lose an estimated $30,000 to $40,000 from the team for ice time.

Cumley said the financial impact will be minor. He worries about the less tangible effects from the loss of the team.

“It’s the indirect relations, where a Spirit player might have been in school talking to a classmate and they want to play hockey at the ice park,” Cumley said. “Every time they put a score in the newspaper, it said Jordan Valley Ice Park. It’s hard to measure how much that will help or hurt us.”