The University of Nevada, Reno and Nevada Athletics broke ground on the Eric and Linda Lannes Basketball Building on June 2, marking a momentous next step in Nevada's continuing capital project efforts.
Located on the north end of campus next to the Ramon Sessions Performance Center, The Eric and Linda Lannes Basketball Building will be a two-story structure, housing adjacent locker room and player lounge areas for the Nevada women's and men's basketball programs.
In February 2022, the university and the athletics department jointly announced a $4 million gift from Eric '82 and Linda Lannes, the single-largest donor gift in department history. This, alongside two $2 million gifts from anonymous donors, tipped off making this transformational project a reality. — Nevada Wolf Pack Athletics
A new baseball stadium is planned for Spartanburg, S.C., and would be home to a minor league baseball affiliate of the Texas Rangers.
The Down East Wood Ducks would be moving to Spartanburg from their current home in Kinston, N.C. In Spartanburg, the team will play its games in the 3,500-seat centerpiece of a $250 million development that will fill the 16-acre site immediately behind the AC Hotel along S Daniel Morgan Ave., which in addition to the ballpark will feature tens of thousands of square feet of residential, office space and retail.
The 16-acre site in Spartanburg, S.C., where the stadium will be built.
The project results from a partnership between the city of Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, the state of South Carolina, OneSpartanburg Inc., The Johnson Group, and Diamond Baseball Holdings (DBH), an organization that owns and operates select minor league clubs affiliated with Major League Baseball (MLB), and which recently announced the acquisition of the Down East Wood Ducks.
Allen Smith, CEO of OneSpartanburg Inc., said the plans have been in the works for three years.
Smith said the stadium would be located on the land behind the AC Hotel.
“This is a great day for Spartanburg," said Jerome Rice, the mayor of the city of Spartanburg. "My colleagues on City Council and I are excited to work with The Johnson Group and Diamond Baseball Holdings to bring this transformative vision to fruition. It will be terrific to bring affiliated professional baseball back to Spartanburg. Additional affordable family entertainment coupled with needed white collar office space and other world class amenities will ensure Downtown Spartanburg is an increasingly impactful economic engine for this region. That benefits all residents of our City and County.”
Before the stands are filled for the first pitch of a minor league baseball game in Spartanburg since 1994, the City, County, developer, and team will need to approve agreements to bring the development to fruition, designs for the stadium and nearby developments will need to be approved. Then the largest construction project in Downtown Spartanburg history will need to be completed, transforming the vast and vacant site that exists today into a hub of entertainment and commerce. — WYFF-TV, City of Spartanburg
Officials in Tower City, N.D., started work on a new about 14,500-square-foot prep gymnasium.
A new gym at Maple Valley High School has been part of the plan for a couple of years, but due to some unforeseen water damage to the current gym this past winter, that plan has now been put into motion.
“We have been working on this actual phase of the site development in the long range plans for Maple Valley School community,” Michael Nygaard, principal of Maple Valley High School, said. “This is the next phase. We did the last addition in 2018. We consolidated some of our facilities in Buffalo and Oriska. We got them all to one location and now we are just moving on with the next phase of the plan.”
Joey Bata, president of the school board said the project will cost between $3.5-4 million, with no referendum needed to secure funding. “We did it all through fundraising for the project. We raised over $1.1 million from community members and community businesses. That shows the commitment of the community for the project. The rest we put money away in a building fund for the district.”
If all goes well, Jonas Mickelson of Olaf Anderson Construction said the project should be done by next spring. — The Valley City Times Record
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