Ratner Confident In Isles Playing In Nassau Mohegan Sun Not Getting NCAA Tourney Games Chesney Tour Still Proving Valuable For Stadiums Facility Notes N.Y. Denies MSG Indefinite Permit College Facility Notes NBA Kings Owners To Buy Arena Site Facility Notes NFL Owners Approve Falcons' G-4 Funding Cowboys HQs Could Leave Valley Ranch
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Ratner Feels MSG Can't Veto Isles Games At Renovated Nassau Coliseum05 / 24 / 13Forest City Ratner Chair & CEO and Nets investor Bruce Ratner, discussing his company's bid for Nassau Coliseum and the Islanders potentially playing a handful of games at the renovated arena after '15, said the venue "really needs to be redone." Ratner appeared on Fox Busine... Tags: Facilities, New York Islanders, NHL, Madison Square Garden |
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Mohegan Sun Not Getting NCAA Tourney Games
Mohegan Sun Arena "looks to be getting the American Athletic Conference women's basketball championships in 2014, but its hopes of getting some NCAA Tournament games were delivered a blow Thursday," according to John Altavilla of the HARTFORD COURANT. The NCAA "frowns on putting tournament games in ...
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Chesney Tour Still Proving Valuable For Stadiums
Country musician Kenny Chesney is “considered such a valuable off-season moneymaker” for sports venues that “when word got out that Mr. Chesney intended to lay off stadiums this summer to focus on sites with half the capacity, managers of some of the NFL’s biggest buildings t ...
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Facility Notes
In Orlando, Denise-Marie Ordway reported UCF's 10,000-seat basketball venue will "be known as the CFE Federal Credit Union Arena -- or the CFE Arena for short." The credit union is paying nearly $4M over seven years for the deal and "plans to open a branch inside the arena." The branch will "feature ...
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N.Y. Denies MSG Indefinite Permit
The N.Y. City Planning Commission yesterday "denied Madison Square Garden's request to operate indefinitely on its current site, reopening questions about moving the arena and shifting a hot-button political issue" to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, according to Laura Kusisto of the WALL STREE ...
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College Facility Notes
In Las Vegas, Paul Takahashi reports a tax-increment financing plan "may no longer be part of the UNLV stadium bill." Assembly Bill 335 was "intended to create a special tax district that would partially fund a proposed new stadium at UNLV's Maryland Parkway campus." UNLV College of Hotel Administra ...
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NBA Kings Owners To Buy Arena Site
The prospective NBA Kings ownership group is buying "not only the team but also Downtown Plaza," where the group and the city "plan to build a new arena," according to a front-page piece by Bizjak, Kasler & Lillis of the SACRAMENTO BEE. Local developer Mark Friedman "declined to disclose the pur ...
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Facility Notes
Eagles President Don Smolenski yesterday said that the team "received NFL backing" to proceed with plans to renovate Lincoln Financial Field. In Philadelphia, Jeff McLane notes while a formal announcement "is forthcoming, the Eagles have spoken freely about some of the modernizations they had p ...
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NFL Owners Approve Falcons' G-4 Funding
NFL owners this morning at their spring meetings in Boston approved the Falcons for $200M in G-4 financing toward construction of a new stadium. The Falcons are the third team, following the 49ers and Vikings, to tap into the full amount that is available to teams through the league's current stadi ...
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Cowboys HQs Could Leave Valley Ranch
Almost four years since Cowboys Stadium opened, Arlington leaders "continue to make it clear" that they want the city to be home to the team’s HQs and practice facilities, according to Susan Schrock of the FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM. Though the Cowboys "refuse to comment on speculation about whet ...
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Redskins' Training Camp Facility Nearly Complete
Redskins officials yesterday said that they expect construction on their new Richmond training camp site to be "completed by the end of June," according to Mark Maske of the WASHINGTON POST. Exec VP & GM Bruce Allen said that the team is "pleased with the results so far." The two-story building ...
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