The desk
Commercial rentals
Parking, storefronts, lots and rooms let out by the week around the game.
A championship week moves more than beds. Around every host city the same short-term market appears in other forms: a driveway within walking distance of the stadium, a storefront let for a week of activations, a parking lot turned over to hospitality, office space taken for the duration of the media build-up.
What the archive holds
The board was built for homes, and that is what most of the Stays archive is. Where a listing was plainly commercial rather than residential, it is kept as filed, under the same address, with the same fields.
Where the rest of it is written up
The non-residential side of the week sits mostly in the reporting rather than in the listings: Host Cities for districts, transit and the build-up, Game Day for the hours around kickoff, and Numbers for what the week cost and what it returned.
Where commercial space fits
Commercial space around the game behaves differently from housing. A storefront or a parking lot is let for the event itself rather than for the night, the term is measured in days around the fixture, and the figure asked depends far more on the walk past the door than on what the space is like inside.
That is why these entries sit apart from the residential listings rather than inside them. Mixing the two would produce an average that describes nothing: a rate per night means one thing for a spare room and something else entirely for a unit on a route to the stadium.
The commercial entries we hold are few, and we have not tried to make a market out of them. Where a figure survived with a listing it is reproduced; where it did not, the page says so rather than carrying an estimate.
As with everything in the stays file, these are advertisements rather than transactions. They record what was offered and on what terms, which is the part of the week that leaves a paper trail, and they say nothing about what was signed.