Development Proposed For TD Garden Front DePaul, Emanuel Unveil $173M Arena Minnesota Trying To Close Stadium Funding Gap Facility Notes DePaul Arena Proposal Part Of Tourism Plan IMS Has Lowest Seating Capacity Since '00 Cubs Want New Wrigley Field Gate Utah Athletic Facilities To Get Makeover Facility Notes Minnesota Tax Plan For Vikings In Jeopardy
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Pair Of Towers Proposed As Gateway To TD Garden Shopping District05 / 17 / 13A Boston development team “wants to build a pair of towers in front of TD Garden that could reach 600 feet in height, creating a gateway for the arena with stores and restaurants, 500 residences, offices, and a 200-room hotel,” according to Casey Ross of the BOSTON GLOBE. The project, by... Tags: Facilities |
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DePaul, Emanuel Unveil $173M Arena
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday in conjunction with DePaul Univ. officially announced plans for a new $173M, 10,000-seat arena that will "serve as the home floor" for the school's men's and women's basketball teams, according to Eamonn Brennan of ESPN.com. Construction on the facility, which ...
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Minnesota Trying To Close Stadium Funding Gap
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton on Thursday proposed a "bailout" of the Vikings' new $977M stadium by raising taxes on smokers and closing a loophole for businesses as a "hedge against the limited success of electronic gambling games that were supposed to help build the sports palace," according to a fro ...
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Rexall Place operator Northlands President & CEO Richard Andersen said that the new [C]$480M Oilers arena deal in Edmonton does "not toll a death knell for the organization but it could still mean the end of an era." In Edmonton, Angelique Rodrigues notes though he "wouldn’t say much more ...
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DePaul Arena Proposal Part Of Tourism Plan
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel today is expected to unveil a $173M plan to "build a 10,000-seat arena for the DePaul Blue Demons next to McCormick Place, couching it as part of a broader blueprint for boosting tourism, much of it to be publicly funded," according to Kathy Bergen of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. ...
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IMS Has Lowest Seating Capacity Since '00
Since last year’s Indianapolis 500, thousands of grandstand seats “overlooking Turn 3 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway have been removed,” and the result means the May 26 race “will have the smallest seating capacity since 2000, the last time the Speedway had a major makeover,& ...
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Cubs Want New Wrigley Field Gate
When the Cubs unveiled ballpark renovation plans last month, the proposal for a "new entrance to Wrigley Field received little notice," but the entry would be "a dramatic alteration of the historic park's exterior walls, while enhancing the Cubs' plan to create a plaza filled with entertainment and ...
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Utah Athletic Facilities To Get Makeover
Since the Univ. of Utah joined the Pac-12 in '11, there have been a number of changes to the athletic facilities, and "more changes, a lot more, are on the way," according to Dirk Facer of the DESERET NEWS. Last week, things "got rolling on a $24 million men’s and women’s basketball trai ...
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In Edmonton, Elise Stolte notes the city council “voted to approve the final funding deal and move ahead" on the proposed Oilers downtown arena Wednesday after the Katz Group "volunteered an additional" $15M. The vote “passed 10 to 3,” with a matching $15M to “be paid by the ...
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Minnesota Tax Plan For Vikings In Jeopardy
After issues with Minnesota's plan for electronic gaming to serve as a revenue source for the state’s share of the new Vikings stadium, the sports memorabilia tax, "once thought to be a fallback plan, may also be doomed," according to Stassen-Berger & Ragsdale of ...
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Cubs Launch Website To Back Wrigley Upgrades
The Cubs have “stepped up a public relations campaign to build support for Wrigley Field renovations” by launching WrigleyField.com yesterday, according to Ameet Sachdev of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. The website asks visitors to sign an online petition "to save Wrigley Field." It also &ld ...
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