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es each quantitative and qualitative criterion and arrives summary score for each stadium site. To organize your alysis, you decide to answer the following questions: 1. Using the center-of-gravity model and Exhibit 6.12, compute the center of gravity for the population of the county. Show all computations, explain, and justify. Based solely on this criterion, where is the best stadium location? 4 Fhew, I'm glad the town hall meeting is over. The four possible locations were described as follows: - Site A includes 241 acres and is big enough to build mented as he was escorted by a police officer to his car in the high school parking lot. The officer replied. "There a sports village; it is located next to a shopping mall were over 1,000 people in the gymnasium, sir, and they were in an uproar. Let's get you out of here safely." Tom and the other City Council members had just finished a town ball meeting open to the public to discuss four altemative locations for a new 880 milion baseball stadium in Lee County, Florida. The City Council originally evaluated 16 sites and had arrived at the final four (denoted as 1 in Exhibit 6.12) and within 4 miles of Florida Gulf Coast University and an 8,000-seat indoor arena for events such as hockey and basketball games in a second shopping mall (denoted as 2 in Exhibit 6.12). The land cost to the City Council is $18 million. locations. The new 10,000-seat ballpark also includes prictice fields, batting cages, and weight rooms. The stadium facility design and layout is to mimic the regular season - Site B includes 209 acres and is located between the two shopping malls 1 and 2 . The site is about 2 miles from Flonida Gulf Coast University. The land cost to the City Council is $22 million. Fenway Park in Boston, Massichusetts. However, the new - Site Cincludes 2,000 acres of wetlands and habitat for park planned on "going green" by reducing energy conanimals. The area is within 3 miles of shopping mall sumption, allocating a carpooling parking lot close to the stadium to reduce patron traffic congestion and transportation costs and fuel use, and changing some of its work 2 and Flonida Gulf Coast University. The developer practices. The five board members of City Council have to planned to donate 100 acres to the city, so the stadium land cost is free. The developer also offered to place 20 acres in a nature preserve for every acre that is developed for commercial purposes. make a location decision in three weeks if they are to - Site D includes 106 acres located close to the airport and about 8 miles from the shopping mall 2 and Florida meet the contractual requirements of previous agreeGulf Coast University. The airport also includes a ments. Once the stadium for spring training was comresearch park that hopes to attract high-tech industries plete, the Red Sox would sign a 30-year lease. Two and jobs. The land cost to the City Council is economic impact studies indicated the stadium would generate $25 to $40 million annually to the local econ- Exhibit 6.12 provides the coordinates for the population omy and support thousands of jobs in airports, hotels. centers and the four possible locations. The populations for the $22 million. restaurants, and retail stores. five population centers are as follows: 1(290,000),2(95,000). 3(145,000),4(80,000), and 5(120,000). Exhibit 6.13 summarizes the cost and judgments of the five City Council members for each site. It was thought that locating the Hed Sox stadium close to the existing retail malls, restaunants, hotels, Florida Gulf Coast. University, and the 8,000-seat indoor arena would create a retail and leisure service cluster where all could benefit. In the 10-month off-season for the Red Sox stadium, for example, local, regional, and national baseball clinies and toumaments could be played using this cluster of assets. Another viewpoint argued that locating the stadium next to the aimport would encounge commercial development in this area, including the airport's research park. EXHIBIT 6.12 Location Grid for Boston Red Sox Spring Training Stadium Fiaalists EXHIIBIT 6.12 Location Grid for Boston Red Sox Spring Training Stadium Finalists CHAPTER 6 Supply Chain Design 173 Case Questions for Discussion: Exhibit 6.13? (You must decide how to scale and You just finished your college's spring semester and have weight each eriterion and whether to include or been working for the City Council as a summer intem. Your major is Information Systems \& Operations Management (ISOM), and you want to earn a good recommendation from not include cost estimates.) Show all calculations and explain your approach. You might wish to use Excel to perform these calculations. The data in your summer intern boss. Your boss asks you to build an electronic spreadsheet model that scores, weights, and evalExhibit 6.12 are available in the Excel worksheet Red Sox Case Data on MindTap. uates each quantitative and qualitative criterion and arrives 3. How will you combine these results (your at a summary score for each stadium site. To organize your center-of-gravity results, cost, and qualitative analysis, you decide to answer the following questions: criteria analyses)? How might you compute a summary seore for each site using all three criteria? Explain and justify