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Hoover’s Met Complex was projected to bring in about fourteen-million dollars in economic impact for the first eight months of this year – it more than doubled that, at thirty-one million.

On Friday, July 19, Sports Facilities Advisory (SFA) founder and CEO, Dev Pathik, appeared on CNBC’s ‘The Exchange’ to discuss the continued ‘boom’ in youth sports tourism.

As a $17 billion industry, sports tourism is projected to hit $29 billion

The Sports Facilities Advisory (SFA) announced, today, that it is stepping into the center of new facility financing. With a new suite of finance support services, the 15-year youth sports facility planning company, is now poised to support hundreds of millions in developments in a wide variety of communities throughout the U.S.

In response to the increasing demand for travel sports destinations, Sports Anaheim along with several sports tourism industry leaders including the facility planning and financing consulting firm Sports Facilities Advisory (SFA), Huddle Up Group, and Event Connect announced a California Sports Tourism Workshop to be held on July 10 in Anaheim, CA.

Youth sports program leaders described a need for more regional youth facilities to accommodate local and traveling leagues Monday night before village trustees approved a feasibility study for the construction of a new youth sports complex in Gurnee.

Andre Carrier, COO of Eureka Casino and Rising Star Sports Ranch, left, was accompanied by Eric Sullivan, Sports Facility Advisory and Management, as they addressed the Mesquite City Council on the need for the city to build more softball and baseball fields and soccer fields as a way to expand the tourism economy. Photo by Barbara Ellestad.

The indoor multi-sport and event complex, servicing the Fox Cities, opening fall of 2019, will double the region’s hotel room bookings.

The firms have joined forces to open a multi-purpose sports complex, summer of 2019. The facility is expected to be one of the most unique, state-of-the-art outdoor and indoor sports campuses on the eastern seaboard.

Following a nation-wide search for a management firm, Elizabethtown Sports Park has selected Sports Facilities Management (SFM) to lead park operations in 2019 and beyond. Since opening to much anticipation in 2012, Elizabethtown Sports Park has been an important sports asset for tourism in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

Following a formal procurement process that began in May 2018, The Village of Bedford Park, IL has selected Sports Facilities Management (SFM) to manage and operate their new sports tourism-focused facility in 2020 and beyond. SFM joins the team with Village leaders and Hunden Strategic Partners who have been in partnership for the development of Bedford Park near Chicago’s Midway Airport for several years.

The city of Albertville, AL is transforming sports and recreation in their community with the unveiling and ground breaking of their 130-acre Sand Mountain Park. Scheduled to open in 2020, the park includes state of the art athletic facilities, amphitheater, indoor sports and fitness center, aquatic center, as well as many outdoor walking trails and playgrounds. The city has chosen industry leader, Sports Facilities Management (SFM), for facility design consulting and procurement services.

Fox Cities Champion Center, one of the newest, premium sports tourism venues in the nation, has hired a General Manager, Ken Weinaug (pronounced Wy-nog). Weinaug will work for Sports Facilities Management, the sports tourism and recreation management firm headquartered in Clearwater, FL, that will manage the Champion Center.

In the 2018 fiscal year, The Hoover Met Complex out-performed both projected economic impact numbers and budget allocations. The state-of-the-art facility, managed by Sports Facilities Management, created $14.86 million in total economic impact from out of town visitor spending and local events.