Atlanta-based architecture and interior design firm tvsdesign "has been selected to design" MLS expansion club Atlanta United FC's training facility, which "will be in the Franklin Road corridor in Marietta." The 33-acre site "will consist of six playing fields and a 28,000-square-foot facility that will house the first team and academy players along with the club's executive and soccer operations staff" (MARIETTA DAILY JOURNAL, 12/20).
EXPLANATION TIME: In Hartford, Gosselin & Goode noted the city's stadium authority "is demanding" that the developers of the Double-A Eastern League Hartford Yard Goats' $56M ballpark explain $10M "in cost overruns and why the venue may not be ready until weeks after the scheduled opening day" on April 7 (HARTFORD COURANT, 12/22).
SEASON OF GIVING: In Tallahassee, Jordan Culver notes Florida State's Doak Campbell Stadium is "getting a new south-end zone scoreboard." The school's old scoreboard has been "extracted and moved" to Florida A&M's Bragg Memorial Stadium in Tallahassee, where it "will be installed to replace the old scoreboard in the north end zone." FAMU AD Milton Overton said that the scoreboard "was given to the university free-of-charge, though it will cost roughly $125,000 to install and program it." He added that it "will be in place before" the first '16 home game (TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT, 12/23).
