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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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Illini marketing naming-rights deal
University of Illinois officials are marketing a $60 million to $70 million naming-rights deal for Assembly Hall that would top the list of college sports facilities named for corporate entities. Warren Hood, the athletic department’s top fundraiser, said the school is asking for $2 million ...
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Lavish home for hospitality planned for 2013 Masters
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Alabama St. plans new $50M stadium
Alabama State University is building a new football stadium on campus, a key piece of the school’s long-range plan to become the first historically black college to compete at the Football Bowl Subdivision level. Athletic department offici ...
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Serving up pregame party spots both indoors and outdoors
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New vibe in New Orleans
Shortly before kickoff at the New Orleans Saints’ regular-season home opener, Stanley Rosenberg approached Doug Thornton on the floor of the Louisiana Superdome. “We don’t have anything more to negotiate,” joked Rosenberg, longtime attorney for Saints owner Tom Benson. & ...
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Target extends arena naming rights
Target Corp. is expected to announce this week that it has agreed to keep its name on the Minnesota Timberwolves’ and WNBA Lynx’s home arena for three more seasons, extending until 2014 professional sports’ longest-running venue naming-rights relationship. The previous deal expi ...
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A carbon-neutral Farmers Field?
AEG ’s chief environmental consultant for Farmers Field says project officials are confident the proposed NFL stadium would be a world leader in sustainability. But carbon neutral? No way, according to Allen Hershkowitz , a senior scie ...
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Preds plan upper-level gathering spot
The Nashville Predators have teamed with sports architect Populous to develop a master plan for renovating Bridgestone Arena . The goal over the next several years is to refresh the 15-year-old facility to forge a stronger brand identity for ...
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Reebok store in works for Wells
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