With just two months to go until the FIFA World Cup kicks off across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, the Pacific Northwest hub of Seattle forecasts the tournament’s economic impact will be worth as much as $1 billion.
Seattle’s Lumen Field, home of the NFL’s Seahawks, will host group matches from groups B, D and G, plus two knockout games in the round of 32 and round of 16 respectively.
This means hundreds of thousands of visitors will descend on Seattle in a couple of months’ time. Preparations are underway inside the Lumen Field stadium and far beyond it too, with bars and pubs across the city already gearing up for the quadrennial sports fest, which it is hoped will bring a boon.
“Anything that happens around the stadiums here is our bread and butter, it’s how we make our big money,” bar manager Billy told ERR.
Bars are adding extra shifts and ordering up to three times more beer than usual.
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