Racetracks attract music festivals Naming rights haven’t faded, sellers say 49ers stadium: Gold and Blue Isles dates part of arena pitch Barclays to use USC football for entertainment push Victories aren’t yet filling Fenway Legends lands deal for Redskins’ suites Golf tourneys installing Wi-Fi hot spots Hawks add loge boxes to Philips Another shot at retractable roof
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Motorsports facilities attract music festivals05 / 20 / 13Concert promoters are booking more music festivals at racetracks, finding those venues to be the right fit for multiday events. The Electric Daisy Carnival, an electronic music festival, this year added Chicagoland Speedway to its list of sites after its success at Las Vegas Motor Speedway the pa... Tags: Facilities |
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Naming rights haven’t faded, sellers say
T he only people happier than the San Francisco 49ers over the Levi’s Stadium naming-rights deal were the guys who make their living brokering those types of agreements. Rob Yowell , Jeff Marks and Jeff Knapple , three consultants w ...
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49ers stadium: Gold and Blue
Players joined team and Levi’s execs to celebrate the deal last week. Photo by: TERRELL LLOYD / 49ERS The San Francisco 49ers received fair value for selling naming rights to Le ...
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Isles dates part of arena pitch
In its bid to win Nassau County’s request for proposals to develop the Nassau Coliseum property on Long Island, the group led by Barclays Center developer Bruce Ratner believes it has an ace up its sleeve: It has pledged that the New York Islanders, who are leaving Nassau for Brooklyn in 2015, ...
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Barclays to use USC football for entertainment push
Editor's note: This story is revised from the print edition. Get ready for another Brooklyn-to-Los Angeles connection, but without the emotional scars over a team bolting for the West Coast. Barclays Center, home of the Brooklyn Nets, has signed a three-year deal with USC Sports Propert ...
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Victories aren’t yet filling Fenway
The Boston Red Sox were the best team in baseball last week, but paid attendance in April at Fenway Park, where the team recently saw a nearly 10-year sellout streak end, struggled to crack 30,000 even when the sun shined. Despite an extraordinary 17-game home schedule in April, the Red Sox sold ...
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Legends lands deal for Redskins’ suites
Legends, co-owned by the Dallas Cowboys and New York Yankees, has signed a multiyear deal with the Washington Redskins to cater the 280 suites at FedEx Field, its biggest food account beyond Cowboys Stadium and Yankee Stadium. Officials with the Redskins and Legends Hospitality, the company&rsquo ...
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Golf tourneys installing Wi-Fi hot spots
The PGA Tour took a huge step toward keeping its fans in touch when it permitted cellphones on the golf course starting in 2011. Now, some tournaments are going a step further by installing Wi-Fi hot spots around the course for the first time. ...
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Hawks add loge boxes to Philips
T he Atlanta Hawks are building seven loge boxes at Philips Arena , a new premium-seat product 20 rows from the court. The loges, designed with four permanent seats and two bar stools, are under construction at the top of the lower bowl in the ...
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Another shot at retractable roof
The selection of 360 Architecture to design a new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons gives sports architect Bill Johnson another crack at developing an NFL facility with a retractable roof. Johnson, 360’s lead designer for the $1 billion ...
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Budget squeezes Vikings' plans
The Minnesota Vikings’ stadium development, already facing issues over public financing for the project, has another challenge to overcome: meeting a fixed construction budget of $690 million to build the 65,454-seat facility. The tight budget has forced project officials to make adjustment ...
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