have for years been doing things such as attaching a conference center to these facilities. For example, Progressive Park in Cleveland offers ice skating and snow tubing during the winter months.
NEW STADIUM DESIGN PROFESSIONAL
Professional sports facilities across the U.S. School- or community-sponsored events at stadiums-turned-multipurpose facilities allow students, faculty, and area residents to interact more freely with each other, thus strengthening the unity between the university and the local community.Ĭonverting stadiums and arenas into mixed-event facilities is hardly a new idea. Multi-event facilities also would benefit from “town-and-gown” relations. In recent years, fewer people can be found in the stands at college stadiums because of more games being broadcasted on TV, escalating ticket prices and other factors. A dual purpose facility would help give them the needed financial resources to build or renovate both academic and athletic facilities, as well as more money to spend on campus activities for students.įinding new ways to maximize the considerable investment in college football stadiums takes on a greater significance, given a decline in fan attendance. Turning football stadiums into multi-event facilities also provides a new and vital source of revenue for schools, particularly for those struggling to cover spiraling operational costs. With only five to six home football games each season, converting stadiums into multipurpose facilities for non-football events makes sense on many levels, especially for the smaller NCAA Division II and III schools.įirst and foremost, those schools typically don’t have the deep pockets of schools like Ohio State University, University of Alabama and other college football bluebloods that have the luxury of spending millions of dollars on building and maintaining stadiums and letting them sit empty 360 days a year. We've compiled a list that show these impressive stadiums and arenas, and offer a glimpse as to how they will be used long after the winner of the 2018 World Cup is crowned.Ĭheck out the twelve stadiums that will host matches in the 2018 World Cup below.This column is featured in Athletic Business magazine.Ī hot topic popping up in conversations at college athletic and educational facility management conferences is using football stadiums for events and uses other than game days. The 2018 tournament will host 65 matches across 11 cities in 12 of the most modern stadiums in the world. This year, Russia will be hosting the event and will be spending an estimated 10 billion dollars in both building new arenas, and refurbishing their existing facilities. The FIFA World Cup, much like the Olympic games, encourages a great deal of development in the host country, with the addition of stadiums, infrastructure, and other programs needed to support the mass of fans who will head to cheer on their country.
By Эдгар Брещанов, via Wikimedia CommonsĮvery four years, millions of soccer fans tune in to watch the best national teams battle it out at the World Cup-all for a chance to call themselves the best soccer team in the world.
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