SBJ Facilities: Ravens’ Relentless group showcases M&T Bank Stadium’s event potential
This special Sept. 2 edition of the SBJ Facilities newsletter reports on Relentless, the Baltimore Ravens' new private events business; four of the NFL's new premium spaces for the 2025 season; and the changes happening inside and outside Lenovo Center, along with the standard "Would you eat this?" ...
As Lenovo Center’s surroundings change, its exterior, and operators’ mindset, does, too
The property line between Raleigh’s Lenovo Center and Carter-Finley Stadium is the middle of Stroud Blvd. For 14 years, Jeff Merritt has mostly concerned himself with the arena’s side of that border.
Four new NFL premium spaces to know ahead of the ’25 season
Devoted readers will be aware of offseason NFL premium projects at M&T Bank Stadium, State Farm Stadium and Mercedes-Benz Stadium, as well as a slew of touchups at World Cup-hosting stadiums in Dallas, San Francisco, northern New Jersey and elsewhere.
Ravens’ new private events business taking advantage of renovated M&T Bank Stadium’s new premium spaces
The $489 million renovation of M&T Bank Stadium has created a slew of new spaces that, in turn, have spawned a Ravens private events business: Relentless Events. A business line of the Ravens sitting under Rich Tamayo’s Stadium Operations group, Relentless has more than a dozen M&T Bank Stad...
Sports Illustrated Tickets wants to become a billion-dollar business
In early 2020, David Lane’s ticketing company, Lunatix, was in bad shape. Its core postseason ticket reservations business was hit hard by the Washington Nationals’ shocking run to the World Series several months before, and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic left the company with an even bleaker ou...
World Cup venues are facing the FIFA-mandated process of ‘de-branding’
After FIFA awarded the hosting rights for the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, that nation’s government built seven stadiums and overhauled one existing venue for the competition. Naturally, there were no naming-rights deals or branded signage when FIFA arrived to dress the venues with its tournament brandi...
University of Kansas’ renovated football stadium blends three facilities into one
During the University of Kansas’ college football season opener last Saturday, hundreds of fans filled the new Jayhawk Club, part of the significant premium upgrade central to the first phase of the $450 million David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium renovation.
SI Tickets adds fan experience deal with Falcons
Sports Illustrated Tickets and the Falcons have inked a six-year deal that makes the four-year-old ticketing company the Official Fan Experience Partner of the NFL team and Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The Falcons join the Steelers, Bengals, and Patriots in striking similar deals with Sports Illustrated T...
PHX Arena sportsbook converted into FanDuel Lounge for Suns season-ticket members
The former FanDuel sportsbook inside PHX Arena is being converted into the FanDuel Lounge, a space exclusive to all Suns and Mercury season ticket members during the teams’ home games.
Aramark, long the on-campus provider for Arizona State, takes over Sun Devil Athletics F&B
Over the summer, Arizona State became Aramark’s seventh full-campus university client. Aramark has been the on-campus provider at the school for 18 years, but its Sports + Entertainment division took over Sun Devil athletics facilities, too, from Sodexo Live and debuts its F&B program at Mountai...