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NFL Facility Notes: San Diego Chamber Endorses Chargers' Plan For Stadium

In San Diego, Roger Showley notes the Chargers' proposed downtown stadium ballot measure "won its biggest endorsement Thursday from the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce." Former San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders said that of the 46 board members participating, "two voted no and several abstained." Sanders: "The benefits far outweigh the risks." Chargers Chair Dean Spanos "welcomed the chamber action, which came nearly four months after the team launched its initiative." The Charges have "yet to win the backing of the hotel industry, which prefers expanding the existing San Diego Convention Center, or Comic-Con International, whose leaders also want contiguous expansion to take care of the annual event's burgeoning attendance" (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 7/29).

STRIP TEASE: In Las Vegas, Richard Velotta notes the Bali Hai Golf Club has "emerged as a potential site" for a 65,000-seat domed Raiders stadium, joining "four other sites as leading locations for the project." Development partners Las Vegas Sands, Majestic Reality and the Raiders told Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee members that they have made "initial contact with the operators of the 18-hole golf course south of the Mandalay Bay resort about the possibility of building there" (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, 7/29).

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: In Atlanta, Tim Tucker noted the "demolition of the Georgia Dome will be completed before college football's national championship game comes to the new Falcons stadium" in January '18. The Georgia Dome is scheduled to be imploded by the fall of '17. Stadium project general contractor Wayne Wadsworth said that the Holder Hunt Russell Moody firm is in "discussions with five finalist firms to serve as the demolition contractor." A choice is "expected by next month." Georgia World Congress Center Authority BOD Exec Dir Frank Poe said that the "last event currently scheduled in the Dome is a Monster Jam motorsports event on March 10" (ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, 7/27).

MOVING DAY: Cowboys Exec VP, COO & Dir of Player Personnel Stephen Jones said that most of workers from the team's longtime HQ at Valley Ranch "already have made the move" to the Omni Frisco Hotel at The Star in Frisco. Jones said, "Everybody that worked at Valley Ranch is basically who's going to work here." He added, "There's things we didn't have at Valley Ranch like the training table. I think everybody is thrilled with it." Omni Frisco GM Jeff Smith said that even with the opening day "at least 10 months away, some groups already have booked rooms and made plans to use the hotel's 24,000 square feet of meeting space" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 7/28).

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