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The Capital Improvement Board of Marion County is working to balance its budget and rebuild its reserves after a year in which it fell $40 million into the red, thanks [...]

ANCHORAGE 3-6 Great Alaska Sportsman Show Alaska's largest annual sports and outdoor show offers everything for the sports and outdoor enthusiast with demonstrations and clinics. Don't miss this premier hunting, […]

Pennsylvania's newest arenas are the Bryce Jordan Center in University Park and CoreStates Center in Philadelphia. The Bryce center, which opened in January 1996 and cost $55 million, already has been paid off with state and private financing. CoreStates Center, which opened in August 1996 and cost $210 million, is the home of three pro sports teams. The Pittsburgh Civic Arena, three facilities in Erie, Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, Hersheypark Arena and other arenas are discussed., Business is brisk for most facilities across the Keystone State. Heading the list are the two newest buildings: Bryce Jordan Center in University Park and CoreStates Center in Philadelphia. The [...]

The latest generation of sports facilities has been shaped by the economic reality that they must also easily accommodate nonsports events in order to produce the steady stream of revenue [...]

Sports turf management is more than mowing grass and painting lines on a football field. Today's sports turf manager needs to have a more holistic approach to managing sports fields [...]

Like people, turfgrass needs water; it can't live without it. Of course, in sports field settings, water does far more than keep the grass alive. It helps keep grass healthy [...]

The tight economy, increased focus on sustainability and technical innovations are combining to make air, tension and frame-supported structures strong players in the sports and recreation marketplace. The large, open [...]

Charlotte Coliseum Gearing Up For '94 NCAA Final Four Tourney CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Pro and amateur basketball are popular sports here and two occasionally compete with each other at the [...]

The next 15 years appear even brighter for the Dome Kingdom management is not resting on its laurels in celebrating 15 successful years. Rather, the master plan is being rolled [...]

AMUSEMENT BUSINESS [R] SALUTES The Opening Of the ERVIN J. NUTTER CENTER The Nutter Center, an inevitable success story The campus of Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, looks like most [...]

Salutes The Opening Of The MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES ARENA The Minnesota Timberwolves have a new arena. And so does the city of Minneapolis. Within its first operating year, the management team [...]

THE TWO FACES OF ABE BOTH SIDES OF WASHINGTON'S LEGENDARY SPORTS IMPRESARIO ABE POLLIN, THE apartment builder and sportsman who'd long sealed deals with nothing more than a promise and [...]

Rotherham-based Inditherm has developed a cost-and- energy- efficient material called Inditherm to be used in sports sector applications. Uses of the material include undersoil heating for football pitches, battery- operated heated clothing and the Speedheat method of applying heat to injuries.

The operations and management of International Speedway Corp of Orlando, FL, are discussed in detail by executive David Talley. The company is a major promoter of motor sports in the US.

MOORESVILLE, NC - Eager, bright faces. New books. It looks like the start of another school year - but this time with a definite roar of engines from the starting [...]

Briohn Building Corp. designed and constructed a two story, 81,000-square-foot building called the Brookfield Indoor Soccer Complex. The concept of designing and constructing the building all done by one company has proven effective.

The operations and management of MTR Gaming Group Inc of Chester, WV, are discussed in detail by chairman, president, and CEO Edson R. Arneault. The company is an operator of racetracks and casinos.

BEND -- Oregon's largest ski resort has long been one of the Northwest's premier snowsports destinations. But over the past two years Mt. Bachelor has lost money - a quarter [...]

The troubles of golf-equipment makers such as Callaway Golf may make golf real estate investment trusts a relatively attractive option for golf investors. Callaway, Taylor Made, and Fortune Brands all suffered when golfers wearied of continually buying larger and more elaborate clubs, such as the titanium driver with tungsten insert offered by both Callaway and Taylor Made in 1998-1999. While stocks of such golf REITs as National Golf Properties and Golf Trust of America have also traded near all-time lows lately, aging demographics are more helpful to golf courses than to equipment makers.

Few people had more impact than Binford For a half-century, Thomas Binford cut a wide swath through Indianapolis in business, sports and civic endeavors. When he died of a cerebral [...]

Event organisers often allocate tickets in advance and ticket agencies can charge a booking fee of up to 25% of the face value of tickets. Many event organisers prohibit the re-sale of tickets at more than their face value and they may deny entry to holders of these tickets. Tickets for international football matches are usually sold through football associations. Tickets for cricket Test Matches are decided by ballot but people can ring a credit card telephone line nearer the time for returned tickets. There are around 90,000 tickets available for the British Grand Prix.

WORCESTER, MASS. -- Most venues might mark the occasion of their 15th anniversaries with a party or a concert or some other form of celebration. Worcester's Centrum Centre has done [...]

Ted Turner established 24-hour news station CNN in 1991 and has since expanded his empire to include cable, television, film and sports interests. He is married to Hollywood actress Jane Fonda. His love of sport is reflected in his desire to create an integrated sports business ranging from team management to television sports broadcasting, under the name Turner Sports. He has invested in sports and entertainment developments and sees sport as a major influence on leisure in the future. Turner greatly helped the city of Atlanta, GA, to host the 1996 Olympics.

Sports teams have been leaving their home sports facilities in search of facilities that give them higher attendance and revenue. The National Basketball Assn's Cleveland Cavaliers left its Richfield Coliseum, in Richfield, OH, to relocate elsewhere, leaving the Richfield Coliseum empty. Sports facilities that have lost their major sports tenants face the most difficult problems., When the Richfield (Ohio) Coliseum opened in October 1974, it was considered one of the premier facilities in the U.S. A 1979 article in Sports Illustrated read, 'No arena was [...]

Sports facilities are discovering that renting a few luxury suites on a single-night basis can be profitable. America West Arena, in Phoenix, AZ, rents luxury suites on an event-by-event basis, which results in a more flexible use of the facility. Madison Square Garden, in New York City, NY, rents one of its 89 luxury suites on an event-by-event, first-come-first-service basis., Venues across the country are finding that holding one or more luxury suites out for single-night rentals can be profitable and an excellent marketing tool for potential long-term suite buyers. [...]

PHILADELPHIA- The CoreStates Center, Philadelphia's $210 million sports and entertainment wonder, has accomplished what would seem an impossibility in a city so grounded in history: It has shifted attention from [...]

Dennis Finfrock, who becomes president of the International Association of Auditorium Managers (IAAM) in late July 1996, enjoys working behind the scenes of entertainment, sporting and other special events. After starting a crowd management company, he eventually managed and helped design entertainment facilities, including venues in Las Vegas, NV, and around the world. Finfrock feels a key to a facility's success is its flexibility. At the IAAM, he wants to involve more people in the committee system., Incoming International Assn. of Auditorium Managers President Dennis Finfrock has run his own crowd management company, been assistant athletic director at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, managed that school's Thomas [...]

Spectacor Management Group (SMG) has come out on top in a hotly contested management bid for the Riverside Centroplex in Baton Rouge, La. Contract negotiations are now under way between [...]

General Motors Place in Vancouver, British Columbia is the first privately financed major Canadian arena built since the 1930s. It cost $160 million and was designed by Brisbin Brook Beynon Architects. There is a flexible partitioning system which enables the arena to have 3,500 seats or 20,000 seats. The National Basketball Assn Grizzlies and the National Hockey League Canucks play here., VANCOUVER--A city this special deserves a building like General Motors Place. Located in the heart of the entertainment district, the 20,004-seat arena boasts the latest in technology, fantastic sightlines, and [...]

The decision to restart the National Hockey League (NHL) season was strongly supported by arena managers, although most arenas will realize lost revenues because of the shortened season. For example, each lost hockey game cost Philadelphia, PA-based CoreStates Spectrum as high as $50,000 in ancillary revenue. To survive this loss of revenue, arena managers had been booking replacements and economizing. The league will begin a 48-game schedule as early as Jan 18, 1995., Each cancelled National Hockey League (NHL) game at the CoreStates Spectrum, Philadelphia, can cost that building up to $50,000 in ancillary revenue. With similar situations in most NHL buildings, arena [...]

Byline: Mike Olson BANNER OVERLOAD When Duke runs out of room to hang all those basketball awards, it breaks out the lasers. When the banner commemorating Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski's [...]

When the Olympics are over ONE OF THE main arguments for bidding for the Olympic games--which are expected to cost £9.3 billion, against an original estimate of £2.4 billion, with [...]