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Recognizing the upward trends in the sport of rowing, USRowing and RowAmerica partnered with The Sports Facilities Advisory & Management (SFA and SFM) in 2015 with the combined purpose to grow the sport of rowing, and to create rowing development tools and services in order to expand the reach of rowing…

Six-time NBA All-Star, Jermaine O’Neal is dedicated to building a new player development paradigm that impacts the health, wellness, and education of local athletes. And, he isn’t waiting for the completion of his state-of-the-art $10.4 million-dollar sports facility to take action. His Total Player Development philosophy is a reflection of his successful playing career and what it took to get there….

Rocky Top Sports World, a state-of-the-art, indoor and outdoor sports campus surrounded by the Great Smoky Mountains, is on pace to set a record for number of events in just its third year of operation. What makes this achievement even more impressive is that just a few months ago, the 86,000 square-foot indoor facility was a shelter that housed and fed thousands who had lost homes or been evacuated due to historic wildfires….

Where do you take your career after you’ve summited some of the world’s most challenging mountain peaks, built aerial adventure parks across the country, and trained top-ranking CEO’s in leadership?

Construction is underway in the Town of East Fishkill, for what has been hailed as the world’s largest multi-sport dome. The new Sports KingDome, managed by Sports Facilities Management (SFM), is an engineering marvel, designed to withstand hurricane force winds and heavy snow loads.

Early expectations were eclipsed when the newest venue in Sports Facilities Management’s nationwide management portfolio, the Hoover Met Complex, hosted more than 135,000 guests ahead of the anticipated public open house, scheduled for later this week. The venue has already garnered Hoover a ranking as one of “The 15 best travel destinations for youth sports” alongside places like Atlanta, Myrtle Beach, Gatlinburg and Los Angeles.

Ocean Sports Development, Inc looked to partner with SFA when considering multiple wave-pool locations for SFA’s expertise in the planning and finance of sports and recreation resorts.

CEO Jason Clement announced earlier this week that the SFM senior leadership team and general managers will hold the 2017 Community Sport Leadership Summit in September.

Does the current pace of new youth and amateur sports facility development announcements, new project openings and the number of communities now studying market opportunities suggest an industry boom? According to Dev Pathik, founder and CEO of the Sports Facilities Advisory, there is no question the U.S. is experiencing a boom in the sports tourism and recreation center markets, especially in the South and Northeast regions.

On the August 2017 edition of HBO’s Real Sports, a consultant on youth sports facilities development named Dev Pathik explains to reporter Jon Frankel that $9 billion is spent per year (and growing by 20 percent annually) on youth sports travel. “It’s an incredible transformation with massive ripple effects on the rest of our society,” Pathik tells Frankel.

The Aspen Institute today announced a multi-year effort by more than a dozen leading sport, health, media and other organizations to grow national sport participation rates and related metrics among youth. The initiative, Project Play 2020, represents the first time that industry and non-profit groups have come together to develop shared goals around making sport accessible to all children, regardless of zip code or ability.

The national boom in youth travel tournaments is part of a trend that seems to be heating up. Rocky Mount North Carolina has long been a player in the travel sports marketplace, hosting more than 100,000 players and visitors annually at its outdoor sports complex. However Rocky Mount has achieved a new level of attention related to its new 165,000 sq. ft. indoor sports and events center slated to open in the fall of 2018. Dev Pathik, Founder and CEO of the firm that has partnered with Rocky Mount to craft this vision and to bring this new facility to life, said “Rocky Mount is ideally suited to host events. It is centrally located between Miami and NYC and is within a five-hour drive of more than 25% of the U.S. population.”

The SFA & SFM brand video created by Beach Lion Studios stood alongside the best of Tampa Bay’s advertising last Thursday night at the 2018 American Advertising Awards of Tampa Bay. The annual gala recognizes the ADDY Award winners, in the first phase of a three-tier, national competition.