In generating this year's list of the top-earning country musicians, Forbes considered concert box office receipts, merchandise revenue, album sales, publishing royalties and income from endorsement or licensing deals.
Designed by Renzo Piano, it relieves the old building of the wear of more than 200,000 visitors a year, providing space for facilities unimagined by Mrs. Gardner, like a concert hall, offices, a restaurant, a shop and a visitors' lounge.
Dennis Crowley is the co-founder of Foursquare, a mobile application allowing users to "check-in" at locations, from cafes to concerts to office buildings, and send that information to friends also using the app.
In an escalating cycle, orchestra staff positions multiplied; with marketing pros toiling to fill seats at the extra concerts, development offices were expanded to pay for it all.
"I got a free a-capella concert in my office.
Fast forward two decades and suddenly barbed wire and watchtowers don't seem like a boon to a waterfront that has a new baseball stadium, the state aquarium, the Tweeter Center concert stage and office and apartment buildings developing.
Roberts spent the entire weekend stuck in the concert's business office, trying to keep the operation afloat and rounding up hard cash for acts whose managers refused to let them work unless they were paid in advance — he had a local banker open up in the middle of the night so the Who could be persuaded to play.
Given that, 11 30 a.m. might not be the ideal time for concerts in an office lobby.
But anywhere with people in a confined area – offices, concert venues, lifts – poses a risk.
The wide boulevard, flanked by a procession of 12 slabs of varying sizes for offices, concert halls and apartments, would lead to the river and, at the end, a cable-stayed steel tower, perhaps 600 feet high.
