Facilities

The Commanders have "conducted their last training camp practice" in Richmond, and while the team isn't returning, the bill for Richmond taxpayers -- about $700,000 annually -- will "continue to show up every year" until 2033. Richmond Economic Development Authority board chair John Molster said of the...

U.S. Bank Stadium today is "debt-free" as the Minnesota Department of Management and Budget (MMB) directed about $378M to "retire the remaining bonds." Under the bond agreement, this month is the " first opportunity for the state to refinance or pay off the remaining debt " on the $1.1B...

Friction has "been building" between D.C. and several of the professional sports teams that already play there, according to Fortier, Brice-Saddler, Wallace, Dougherty & Flynn of the WASHINGTON POST. Representatives from Monumental Sports & Entertainment and the Nationals have "spoken separately with city government officials about funding for improvements they...

The Phillies are developing a $250M “residential, dining and shopping complex called Ballpark Village” on 13 acres just south of the BayCare Ballpark and Carpenter Field Training Complex in Clearwater, according to sources cited by Tracey McManus of the TAMPA BAY TIMES. The mixed-use component “adds to the team’s...

NASCAR Managing Dir of Sports Betting Joe Solosky said that a “retail Barstool Sportsbook at Phoenix Raceway is on indefinite hold,” according to Brant James of GAMING TODAY. PENN Entertainment has to decide if “the potential business it could generate would be worth the cost of construction at the...

In S.F., John Shea noted the A’s were “granted nine acres to figure out how to construct a retractable-roof stadium that is up to modern Major League Baseball standards.” The ballpark land, meanwhile, is “relatively minuscule.” SmithGroup architect and planner Brian Powers said, “It could be possible, but it’ll...

Jacksonville Mayor-elect Donna Deegan said that she “has set her sights” on starting negotiations with the Jaguars to renovate TIAA Bank Stadium “this summer,” according to David Bauerlein of the FLORIDA TIMES-UNION. Jaguars President Mark Lamping wrapped up a "10-day blitz of public meetings about renovating the...

The name of the Jaguars' stadium "could be changing" from TIAA Bank Field to EverBank Stadium by the time the team kicks off the regular season. A rep of the Jacksonville-based bank has sent a letter to Mayor Lenny Curry and Jaguars President Mark Lamping  "requesting...

About a half-dozen of the key staff at Swing Racquet + Paddle, soon to be the world’s largest racket sports facility, was seated around a conference table at a Raleigh co-working space in May explaining their vision. The co-working space and its whiteboard is where Rob Autry,...

The sheer of the Swing Racquet + Paddle campus (45 acres) and the investment ($80 million) deployed to bring it to life is impressive, but the involvement of Wilson Sporting Goods might lend more gravitas to the project than anything else.  Wilson, long synonymous with...