We’re going to return to doing 400-plus events annually having over 4 million fans coming into the building.” “New York City and the music industry welcome the return of the Garden and the Theater at the Garden for 12 months a year. The Garden project was completed “on time and virtually on budget, and with spectacular results,” MSGE president Melissa Ormond told Billboard last fall. 4: Irving Azoff & Jeffrey Azoff | Power 100 For the occasion the roof of the Forum was bedecked with a massive replica of the Eagles’ Hotel California vinyl album. The Forum renovation, which began just ahead of the announcement of a new $300 million partnership between MSGC and Irving Azoff’s Azoff Music Management, was unveiled with a multiple-night stand in January by longtime Azoff client the Eagles. The Garden, which had continued operating with reduced availabilities during the three-year project, returned to full speed with three Ed Sheeran shows in late October. In recent months, MSG Entertainment, a division of the Madison Square Garden Co., has completed both a $1 billion “transformation” of its namesake arena in Manhattan and a $100 million makeover of the Forum in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood. ![]() In the decade that Billboard has devoted an annual special touring feature to new and renovated venues, never before have the nation’s two biggest concert markets, New York and Los Angeles, demanded the spotlight as they do now - largely due to the initiatives of one company.
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