Oak View Group; Cara Leonard
Tim Leiweke
Chief Executive Officer
Dan Griffis
President, Global Partnerships
Francesca Leiweke-Bodie
President, Business Development
Steve Collins
Chief Operating Officer
Oak View Group
Leiweke is driving the nearly $1 billion renovation of KeyArena, the home for the NHL’s newest expansion franchise, the Seattle Kraken. When it opens next fall, the 800,000-square-foot Climate Pledge Arena — Griffis sold the naming rights to Amazon for nearly $400 million — will be double the size of KeyArena on the same footprint and with the same roof. OVG also is developing the New York Islanders’ $1 billion UBS Arena and its adjacent mixed-used development in Belmont, N.Y., in a joint venture with Sterling Equities and the Scott Malkin Group. Leiweke-Bodie has overseen development of the new $338 million Moody Center on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, which will double as the home of Longhorns basketball and a live music venue. OVG is financing the construction and will manage the 15,000-seat arena in exchange for most of the revenue from concerts, shows and other non-university-related events for at least 35 years. Collins, who helped launch Chase Center and its 11-acre Thrive City mixed-use development as COO of the Golden State Warriors, joined the company last year. — K.D.
