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Power Players: ANC

ANC The company designs and builds broadcast control rooms and sound systems, installs large-format video displays, develops TV-visible signage strategies and — unique among venue technology providers — sells advertising on the technology it provides. Since Jerry Cifarelli Jr. acquired ANC in January, the company’s revenue...

Power Players: AECOM Hunt

AECOM Hunt Global building, engineering and design firm AECOM is one of the few in the industry that can handle an entire sports venue building project from start to finish. The firm made this list for its construction work, largely handled by its...

Power Players: Boldyn Networks

Boldyn Networks Boldyn Networks is a roll-up of six companies related to connectivity infrastructure, including Mobilitie (which was acquired in 2021). The new company is immediately one of the sports venue industry’s most prolific builders of neutral host Wi-Fi and DAS networks, meaning the...

Power Players: PCL Construction

PCL Construction PCL has been integral in the development of several mixed-use areas, including Vancouver’s Ice District, where their role included replacing BC Place’s original retractable roof with 36 steel support masts, each standing 165 feet tall and leaning back toward busy streets...

Power Players: Boingo Wireless

Boingo Wireless The Los Angeles-based company is one of the largest and most-tenured providers of wireless networks in sports, with installations dating to Soldier Field in 2005. The San Diego Padres last season saw a 10% year-over-year increase in food, beverage and merchandise revenue;...

Power Players: Jones Sign

Jones Sign The Green Bay-based company has nearly 400,000 square feet of manufacturing space at 14 locations where it makes really … big … stuff. Jones manufactured and installed the 72-letter, four-sided, 12-ton, faux-neon LED sign atop Climate Pledge Arena (which uses 60%...

Power Players: Brasfield & Gorrie

Brasfield & Gorrie Name a sport and Brasfield & Gorrie, one of the industry’s most dominant regional sports builders, has probably helped build a venue to host it in the Southeast. Since building the $13 million east deck at Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium in...

Power Players: Danny’s Construction

Danny’s Construction Danny’s is known in sports construction circles for erecting and installing U.S. Bank Stadium’s five pivoting glass doors — the largest in the world. The doors rotate on hydraulic pistons, are 55 feet wide and range from 75 to 95 feet...

Power Players: The Builders

The aspirational nature of renderings makes them one of the most popular products of a sports venue project for a team to share and the public to consume, at least until the building opens. Somebody must bring those renderings, and those aspirations, to life. Our Power Players: The Builders...

Power Players: Division Street

Division Street Created by Nike co-founder Phil Knight and other University of Oregon alums, Division Street is a sport venture company that develops marketing programs to maximize revenue opportunities for the Ducks’ student athletes. Led by former Nike executives Rosemary St. Clair (CEO)...