After five years and multiple setbacks, including the COVID-19 pandemic, Paducah and McCracken County leaders on Monday broke ground on the long-awaited Paducah Sports Park at the former Bluegrass Downs site.
The project’s estimated cost is $65 million, with funding largely coming from the transient room tax. Once complete, the park is projected to generate $155 million in direct impact in its first five years.
In case you’ve been living under a tennis racket (and in denial that pickleball is still a thing), the demand for pickleball courts is as high as it’s ever been.
But don’t take our word for it.
The Sports Facilities Companies (SFC), renowned for managing the largest network of sports and recreation facilities in the United States, has reported a surge in demand for pickleball courts in 2024.
The Sports Facilities Companies has been selected by the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, as the operating partner for its sports and entertainment venue, Key City Park — formerly known as Sports Force Parks on the Mississippi.
SFC will manage all aspects of daily operations. The park, which opened in 2019, includes 10 baseball fields and seven full-size soccer fields, featuring synthetic turf and lighting.
Late last month in southern Overland Park, construction workers spent the morning preparing to install 1,500 arena seats looking down on what will become an NHL-sized hockey rink.
Nearby, crews were laying down maple hardwood planks to build out eight basketball courts, which will also serve as 16 volleyball courts. Or they can be transformed with temporary turf for soccer, lacrosse or baseball.
The Sports Facilities Companies (SFC) has been selected by the City of Vicksburg as the operating partner for its premier sports and entertainment venue, formerly known as Sports Force Parks on the Mississippi. It will now be known as Key City Park.
Late last month, ground broke on Crossroads Sports Complex, a $70 million complex in New Lenox, Ill.
The facility, to be designed by JLG Architects, Sports Facilities Companies, and Northern Builders, will be located at the crossroad of interstates 355 and 80, about 45 minutes southwest of Chicago.
Springfield’s Martin Engineering Company gives a summer update on the construction at SCHEELS Sports Park in Springfield, Illinois.
The John Wooden Family Fieldhouse in Xenia opened Saturday, June 15. The state-of-the-art facility is 65-thousand square feet, with four collegiate-sized basketball courts that can also be used for volleyball and pickleball. The fieldhouse also features a wrestling room, hot and cold recovery tubs and conference rooms for teams to meet.
“The grand opening is a full day of events for the community and for our special friends who made this happen,” said Steve Harrell, the general manager of the sports complex and retreat center of Athletes in Action.
The first professional soccer team in Naples officially has its branding.
USL League One Naples revealed the team’s name, FC Naples, as well as its colors and crest in a public event at the Paradise Coast Complex in South Naples on June 15. The franchise also revealed a timeline for the announcement of a head coach.
It was just after 7 a.m. on another busy weekend for the facility, which was the site of the Rocky Mount Grand Prix Volleyball Tournament as well as corporate and community events. A combination of 140 boys’ and girls’ teams came to the Twin Counties during a two-day period where all 16 volleyball courts were full of high-jumping athletes as well as their cheering family members. That’s par for the course for a facility that has generated an estimated $9 million in economic impact through the first quarter of 2024.
SportsEngine Play, NBC Sports Next’s newly launched and first all-in-one youth and amateur sports streaming platform, and the Sports Facilities Companies (SFC), the nation’s leading operating partner for sports, recreation, and event facilities, announced today a multi-year video streaming partnership, created to enhance the experience of more than 25 million young athletes, their family and friends who attend tournaments at SFC-managed sports venues each year.
Sports ETA, the trade association for the sports events and tourism industry, today at the 2024 Sports ETA Women’s Summit, named Ashley Whittaker, Partner and Senior Vice President of Marketing for The Sports Facilities Companies as the 2024 Sports ETA’s Woman of the Year.
