Athletics Nation has a interesting post about what exactly happens to attendance to MLB ballgames after the team builds a new stadium. The results aren’t what you might suspect or even necessarily consistent.
Not surprisingly, attendance is up in the initial year but after that, the data is mixed and in some cases, such as San Diego’s PETCO Park and New York’s Citi Field, the figures drop drastically. Of course, many factors figure in to this… team performance, city demographics, but as Athletics Nation tries to point out, building a new stadium is not a cure-all for dwindling fan attendance.