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Tampa Sports Authority netted $875K from NHL Stadium Series game
Tampa Sports Authority’s gross profit from hosting an NHL Stadium Series game between the Lightning and Bruins at Raymond James Stadium on Feb. 1 was an estimated $875,000.
Daktronics’ 11 offseason MLB display installations show teams are investing in LED throughout venues
Daktronics’ offseason work for MLB teams included 11 projects worth around $50M in total.
Goodell, DeWine, Browns gather for Brook Park stadium groundbreaking
Browns officials, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and “about 500 others gathered under a tent” on the edge of the team’s new Brook Park stadium site Thursday afternoon “for a ceremonial groundbreaking.” Foundation work is “scheduled to begin in late May,” with the stadium “open...
Frisco approves another $9.2M for Toyota Stadium renovation
The city of Frisco, Texas, has “approved additional funding toward the renovation of Toyota Stadium,” according to Aayush Gupta of the DALLAS BUSINESS JOURNAL. Frisco City Council April 21 unanimously allocated an extra $9.2M for “upgrades to the stadium’s seating bowl and wi-fi system.” The nearly ...
Orlando seeks builder for facility nearby Camping World Stadium
The city of Orlando has “put out a bid process for a design/build firm to create and construct a 140,000-square-foot facility on land adjacent” to Camping World Stadium. The venue is part of the ongoing $400M stadium upgrade “expected to be completed in 2027.” The facility’s design is “not finalized...
Louisville hotel boom signals next phase of sports-driven downtown growth
(SBJ research director David Broughton — who recently examined Louisville’s emergence as a sports business pacesetter — points to a new wave of downtown hotel development.)
Big idea
This Dwell story about developer-commissioned murals caught my eye, in part because I’m seeing these works of public art everywhere (especially where I live in a fast-developing part of Charlotte), and in part because they will likely be a fixture of many sports-adjacent mixed-use projects. The reac...
Would you eat this?
Petco Park (a Delaware North Sportservice venue) and the Padres are serving Curry House CoCo Ichibanya’s Chicken Cutlet Curry Plate for $19.99. The dish is simple: chicken cutlet, known as katsu in Japan, served over rice with gravy and vegetables.
With NBA circling Vegas, will someone roll dice on new arena?
Las Vegas is full of arenas. Its stock already includes T-Mobile Arena, Thomas & Mack Center, Orleans Arena, MGM Grand Garden Arena, Michelob Ultra Arena, and, if you want to include them, The Sphere and Allegiant Stadium.
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People can take whatever stance they want on LIV and the funding of it, is it sportswashing, fine. Fact is, look at the elevated purses [on the PGA Tour]. Did that come without the leverage provided by the existence of LIV? No it didn't.-- ESPN's Michael Wilbon, on how LIV's existence benefitted the PGA Tour.
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