2012 Summer Sporting Events Roundup

With the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, summer will be an exciting season for sports enthusiasts. While the anticipation for the Olympic Games builds, there’s a variety of sporting events to check out. Here’s a roundup of sporting events to pay attention to this summer. Tour de France 2012 The 99th Tour de France will…

Popularity of stadium seating

Stadium seating provides a comfortable way for spectators to watch their favorite football, basketball and baseball teams, in addition to other popular sports and outdoor events. This type of seating comes in many types, including bleachers, row seating and individual seating with backrests. Stadium seating provides comfortable chairs and an unobtrusive view. Stadium seating at…

Stadiums – Taking the good with the bad.

However there are certain positives that come along with stadium construction. Building from the ground up gives new parks environmental opportunities that existing parks don’t have. Both Nationals Park and Citi Field have energy-efficient field lighting and waterless and low-flow plumbing fixtures, for example, and both designs incorporate green (vegetative) roofs and white (reflective) roofs…

Stadiums – a taxpayer’s burden

Sporting venues come in all shapes and sizes. Some are truly immense. Sports stadiums are often viewed as economic generators. There are researchers with surprising results and they point out that the evidence does not support this theory. Sports economists and policy analysts are using a variety of methods to get more precise estimates of…