Expert insights and strategies shaping the sports, recreation, and entertainment landscape
By: Ally Azzarelli Sports and recreation venues are built with good intentions and plans to be busy, with full courts, waitlisted classes, and weekend events packed with families. However, even with state-of-the-art offerings, proven programming, and national support, many venues still struggle with awareness, attendance, and new sign-ups. “Often, though
By: Ally Azzarelli Most think offering guests a modern state-of-the-art facility is what matters most, but it’s safety that is truly a priority to athletes, families, and staff members. Families, event owners, and municipal partners assume that if they’re on your fields or in your venue, you’ve already thought through
By: Ally Azzarelli When a community breaks ground on a youth sports facility, the conversation centers on tournaments, tourism, and tax revenue. Sure, those outcomes matter, but there’s a workforce story inside these venues that deserves significant attention. The youth sports industry is now a $56 billion global market, and
Communities nationwide are discovering that when carefully planned and professionally managed, sports facilities successfully drive tourism, small-business growth, and long-term community investment. Youth sports tourism alone is now a multi-billion-dollar industry, making it a powerful and resilient strategy for economic development. According to the Sports Tourism: State of the Industry
In Texas, an “away game” can mean a three-hour drive, a hotel breakfast before an 8 a.m. tipoff, and a trunk full of folding chairs. The large sports venues below are built for that reality—big, flexible, and tournament-ready—so event owners can run full brackets while families get a destination experience
By: Ali Yenchick Indoor sports facilities in North Carolina do a lot of heavy lifting—keeping leagues running through humid summers, stormy shoulder seasons, and everything in between. The venues below offer hundreds of thousands of square feet of indoor courts, ice, and multipurpose space, plus dozens of full-sized fields, giving
By: Ali Yenchick Sports-Anchored Mixed-Use Development in Texas It’s a huge win when a game-day crowd can walk straight from the arena into restaurants, hotels, and public spaces that stay busy long after the final buzzer. At places like Legends Event Center in Bryan, more than 36,000 tourism event attendees
By: Ali Yenchick Indoor sports complexes in Wisconsin are vital– giving athletes, families, and event owners reliable, four-season places to play. Taken together, these indoor sports complexes in Wisconsin add up to well over 800,000 square feet of courts, ice, turf, and aquatics—proof that there’s no such thing as a
By: Ally Azzarelli Communities across the country are rethinking what a sports facility can be, as today’s most forward-thinking municipalities and developers invest in multi-sport athletic complexes — purpose-built venues designed to host a wide range of athletic programming, attract regional and national tournament traffic, and serve as genuine anchors
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