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Las Vegas NHL Team Hopes To Break Ground On Practice Facility Later This Year

Las Vegas NHL franchise Principal Owner Bill Foley "wants to build his two-rink practice facility" in Summerlin, Nev., and he "hopes to break ground in September or October" on the 105,000-square-foot facility, according to Steve Carp of the LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL. Foley said that there is "enough time to complete the project," estimated to cost $17-20M, "in time for the team’s inaugural season," which begins in October '17. Foley "has a deal with Gillette Construction of Las Vegas to build the facility." Foley: "It's a terrific location. It's right by the restaurants at Downtown Summerlin." The practice facility site is "adjacent to land the Hughes Corp. has planned for a new baseball stadium" for the Triple-A PCL Las Vegas 51s. Plans call for "two ice sheets, along with a 20,000-square foot NHL-quality locker room, coaches’ offices, a sports medicine area, a players’ lounge and a strength and conditioning area." The team’s offices for its hockey operations staff, marketing and media relations, corporate sales and ticketing "will be located on the second floor" (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, 6/26).

BOWL HALF EMPTY? FORBES' Eric Macramalla noted former MLSE President & CEO Richard Peddie "expressed serious concerns with the ability of Las Vegas to support an NHL hockey team." Peddie: "Bad mistake. The NHL owners are going to regret it. It’s not a great community economically. Fan avidity will not develop." He added, "While they have sold a lot of season tickets, there will be people comped at casinos, and I know with comps, people either don’t show up or show up for a period and then leave. So it’s going to be a very empty, quiet bowl" (FORBES.com, 6/23).

QUIET IN QUEBEC: The NATIONAL POST's Scott Stinson writes Quebec City, whose expansion was bid deferred by the NHL BOG, "becomes the new Kansas City, the town that will most frequently be mentioned as a relocation possibility when an NHL team runs into some kind of financial problem." Stinson: "All for the low, low price of $330-million." This would all be "embarrassing enough for the politicians who agreed to pay for an arena, but new details about the financing arrangement are just the latest chapter in Why You Shouldn’t Use Public Money on an Arena, a work that gets updated with alarming frequency" (NATIONAL POST, 6/27).

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