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LegacySportsPark

EventConnect Partnering With Legacy Sports USA

EventConnect has announced a partnership with Legacy Sports USA, which in January 2022 will open Legacy Sports Park, a 320-acre multi-use family, sport and entertainment complex in Mesa, Arizona. Legacy Sports USA will use EventConnect’s platform to streamline attendee user data to maximize attendee experiences with event and hotel registrations, ticketing and concessions planning at […]

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PetcoPark
The San Diego Padres' downtown ballpark will continue to be called Petco Park after an extension of the company's naming rights agreements. Photo by Matt Traub/Sports Travel

Petco and San Diego Padres Announce Petco Park Naming Rights Extension

Petco Health and Wellness Company and the San Diego Padres have agreed to extend the naming rights for Petco Park through the 2027 Major League Baseball season, a two-year extension on the already 17 years that the downtown gem in San Diego has been known as. Petco Park was recognized as the best ballpark in […]

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Resch Expo Green Bay Wisconsin

Resch Expo Opens in Green Bay

The new $93 million Resch Expo has opened in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The exhibition center, which replaces an aging building that had been on the same site, features 125,000 square feet of floor space, with another 135,000 square feet of pre-function, meeting, networking and outdoor plaza space. Sitting next to the Packers’ historic Lambeau Field, […]

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PNCPark

Pittsburgh Pirates, PNC Bank Extend Stadium Naming Rights Partnership

The Pittsburgh Pirates and PNC Bank have announced a 10-year extension to their current agreement, the centerpiece of which is the continued naming rights of PNC Park. Financial terms were not disclosed. With the original 20-year naming rights agreement set to expire prior to the 2021 season, the two Pittsburgh institutions agreed to extend the […]

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Coliseum Renovation
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum will be home to the 2002 NASCAR Clash. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Major League Rugby Expansion Franchise Playing at LA Coliseum

The newest franchise in Major League Rugby will play its home games at one of the most historic sports venues in the United States. The LA Giltinis will be playing home matches at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as part of what the expansion franchise terms a “long-term deal” that the league itself said would […]

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Florida baseball
Photo: Courtesy of Populous

University of Florida Unveils New Baseball Stadium

The University of Florida has debuted its new baseball stadium, which replaces McKethan Stadium that the Gators had called home since 1949. The Populous-designed Florida Ballpark at Alfred A. McKethan Field is a $65 million project that will serve as home to the team that started the season ranked No. 1 in most national polls. […]

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Populous and OAM venue
Populous and OAM reveal plans for iconic performance venue in Toronto

OverActive Media Reveals Toronto Esports Venue Plans

OverActive Media has released the first rendering of its planned performance venue in Toronto that will be used for both esports and entertainment events throughout the region. The project, at a cost of nearly $500 million, is projected to be completed in 2025. Designed by Populous, it would include a theatre-style entertainment venue and hotel […]

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TCF Center digital sign

Detroit Convention Center Reopens with Volleyball Tournament

The first event at the TCF Center in Detroit since the pandemic began was a volleyball tournament, and a large one at that. Detroit’s downtown convention center hosted 1,000 athletes on 16 courts the weekend of February 13–14 in an event organized by Michigan Elite Volleyball Academy. Athletes at the President’s Day Challenge had to […]

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OregonStateFootballStadium
A rendering of what the renovated Reser Stadium will look like once finished. Rendering via Oregon State University athletics.

Oregon State Plans $153 Million Reser Stadium Renovation

Oregon State University’s Reser Stadium will undergo a renovation as part of a $153 million project approved by the school’s Board of Trustees as part of an overhaul of the Beavers’ football facility. An anonymous donor has made a $50 million lead gift toward the renovations of the venue in Corvallis, which will include a […]

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MidwayStation

Midway Central Station in Illinois Hires General Manager

Midway Central Station at Bedford Park has hired Wade Welsh, an Illinois native, as general manager to lead the team at the 116,000-square-foot indoor venue that will be opening this summer in the village of Bedford Park, which oversees the project in partnership with Sports Facilities Companies. Welsh has an extensive background in sports management […]

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