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5 Unique Non-Sports Events You Can Host at Your Facility

Guest post written by Cameron Connelly, Content & Research Coordinator, The Sports Facilities Companies.  Soup bowls might be designed to hold bisques and broths but that shouldn’t stop you from filling them with your favorite cereal. The same goes for sports facilities. If your facility is designed to host large sports tournaments

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Sporting Events That Venues Should Be Pursuing, And Why

Guest post written by Cameron Connelly, Content & Research Coordinator, The Sports Facilities Companies.  Hosting sports tournaments and events is a great way to maximize the use of your facility and increase the revenue and economic impact that it generates. But it seems that nearly every youth sports facility is focused primarily

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Ingredients Needed to Develop a Successful Sports-Anchored Development

Guest post written by Cameron Connelly, Content & Research Coordinator, The Sports Facilities Companies.  Mixed-use developments are everywhere these days. And for good reason. In a crowded urban landscape, land is a hot commodity and there is never enough of it to fit everything we want. By developing an apartment building with

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Ways That Sports Facilities Can Give Back to Their Community

Guest post written by Cameron Connelly, Content & Research Coordinator, The Sports Facilities Companies.  Sports facilities always leave a lasting impact on the kids and families that attend tournaments and events there. But what we don’t always see or talk about is the impact that they have on everyone else in a

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How Sports Facilities Can Help Low-Income Families Gain Access to Sports

Guest post written by Cameron Connelly, Content & Research Coordinator, The Sports Facilities Companies.  Sports are a great way to provide kids with the opportunity to make friends, learn vital life skills, and stay healthy all while having fun. But not every family has the same opportunity to participate. Sports equipment and

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Parks and Recreation Trends for 2023

Guest post written by Cameron Connelly, Content & Research Coordinator, The Sports Facilities Companies.  When the famed landscape architect and urban park designer, Frederick Law Olmsted, created his first park, the goal was to create a green space for people to use to escape from the city and their busy lives. The

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Leading, Engaging, and Retaining Staff at a Sports Facility

Guest post written by Cameron Connelly, Content & Research Coordinator, The Sports Facilities Companies.  The best feature of a state-of-the-art sports facility isn’t always the facility. Sometimes you come across an employee that is so talented or has such a good personality that their presence alone gets guests to come back again

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2023 Sports Facility Programming Trends

Guest post written by Cameron Connelly, Content & Research Coordinator, The Sports Facilities Companies.  Even Nostradamus himself couldn’t have predicted the infectious new variant that took over the world in the last couple years, called pickleball. But like the late French astrologer, we have some educated guesses about what we think the

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