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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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A steady hand at Dallas arena
The Dallas Mavericks were playing in the NBA Finals against the Miami Heat, and arena boss Brad Mayne was flying back and forth to — Pittsburgh? Mayne, as president and CEO of American Airlines Center, had the duty of running the Mavericks’ home during only their second Finals appeara ...
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Packers look outside of sports
The Green Bay Packers went outside sports to hire an architect to design the $143 million expansion of Lambeau Field . That’s the way the NFL team wanted it, said David Manfredi , a founding principal with Elkus Manfredi Architects , a ...
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Arena to use rainwater for hockey ice
A minor league hockey arena in western Canada will be the first sports facility in North America to make its ice surface out of rainwater that’s been collected from the building’s roof. Abbotsford (B.C.) Entertainment and Sports Cen ...
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Packers plan 6,600 more seats
The Green Bay Packers will add about 6,600 seats and a rooftop viewing platform to Lambeau Field as part of a $143 million expansion project. The Packers will add the seats in the south end zone of Lambeau Field and the rooftop viewing platform in the north end zone, along with new entry gates in ...
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Charity raffles enter the tablet age
A Canadian entrepreneur is bringing high-tech to big league raffles. Dan Tanenbaum, whose uncle Larry Tanenbaum is chairman of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, is president and co-founder of the Toronto company Bump 50:50, which has developed an in-venue mobile technology using computer tab ...
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MLS clubs hope to lure concerts
Seven Major League Soccer teams have formed the Soccer Stadium Alliance to attract additional business from the music and entertainment industry. The group is modeled loosely after the group of NFL stadiums called the Gridiron Stadium Network. It comprises Crew Stadium in Columbus; PPL Park in C ...
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New college football stadiums
Two new college football stadiums open this season, at the University of North Texas and at Florida Atlantic University. Both schools are members of the Sun Belt Conference, both stadiums were designed by HKS, and both buildings seat about 30,000. North Texas, based in Denton, recently anno ...
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FAU nears naming deal
Florida Atlantic University officials hope to announce a naming-rights deal soon for the school’s new 30,000-seat football stadium opening in mid-October, according to Athletic Director Craig Angelos . Put an asterisk at the end of that s ...
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MainGate gets Big Ten deal
The Big Ten Conference has signed sports retail vendor MainGate to an exclusive five-year contract to sell merchandise for its football championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium. MainGate’s deal also covers the Big Ten men’s and women’s basketball tournaments for four years startin ...
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Pennsylvania powerhouse keeps the top spot
Editor's note : This story is revised from the print edition. It would be easy to label Hershey-Harrisburg’s repeat No. 1 ranking in our biennial study of the nation’s top minor league markets as a gimme. The Pennsylvania market has a passionate fan base, tenured clubs and a sta ...
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