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Women's Sports on a Roll: Packed Stadiums, The Sports Bra Bar & Restaurant, and Impacting CRE

Caroline Wu
Jun 7, 2024
Women's Sports on a Roll: Packed Stadiums, The Sports Bra Bar & Restaurant, and Impacting CRE

Post-March Madness, many of the NCAA women’s basketball players went on to the WNBA. Caitlin Clark to the Indiana Fever, Cameron Brink to the LA Sparks, and Angel Reese to the Chicago Sky were some of the most hotly anticipated draft picks. The newfound appetite for the WNBA is real. Take Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis as an example. Just comparing the time period of April 30-May 31, 2023 vs April 30-May 31, 2024, there is a stark contrast in the number of attendees to home games. In just five games, attendance to this year’s Fever games has already surpassed that of the entire 2023 season.

The trade area draw is also something to note as the area from which 70% of visits originated practically doubled from May 2023 (blue) to May 2024 (red), showing the magnetic effect a star player can have.

This heightened interest is great news for concepts like The Sports Bra, a bar and restaurant based in Portland, Oregon. It’s 100% dedicated to women’s sports so you can be sure to catch your favorite female player on the screen. Since opening in the spring of 2022, it’s had steady business, and odds are with all the women’s sports to watch, there should be a busy summer ahead.

In addition, might the added exposure bring new fans to brands such as Wilson Sporting Goods, which signed Caitlin Clark? This familiar brand opened its first West Coast brick and mortar store on Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade just about a year ago.  Meanwhile, Angel Reese has signed on some big brands such as Reebok, Raising Cane’s and AirBnB. Former Stanford Cardinal and now LA Sparks superstar Cameron Brink is one of the faces of New Balance, and has starred in an ad with Shohei Otani and Coco Gauff.

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Caroline Wu

Director of Research, Placer.ai

Caroline brings expertise in retail, CRE, entertainment, media, CPG, and tourism, and specializes in synthesizing broad datasets into actionable recommendations for growth. She has worked as the US Director of Consumer Insights at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, VP of Retail Insights and Intelligence at Omnicom, and Senior Director at Kantar. Caroline holds an MA in Sociology from Stanford University and a BA in International Relations from Stanford University.

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