Facilities Expand Throughout Neighborhoods

            Many schools these days want to expand and upgrade their athletic facilities. There are many of repercussions to doing this though. First it is going to cost a lot of money. The second thing is you have to choose where in your county or city you are going to build the new facilities.

            When getting the money to build a new facility, it has to come from someone. It can come from your boosters. It can come from the people of the town. Or it can come from an outside source. When trying to pass a proposal of a new facility to the people, the town there usually has some type of vote that the city has to have to decide. That way they have a say if they want this to happen and know what will happen to the town if it goes through. They also will know how much money they will be spending if any at all.

            This brings me to my second point on where will the facility be built in the city. Some facilities move into the neighborhoods and people may lose their homes. So the vote that they have may help them have a say in people losing their houses or not.

            This is a great topic that athletic facility supervisors or any facility supervisors may want to think about when wanting to build a new facility. I would also recommend to them to read an article by Kelley Povero called “There Goes the Neighborhood?” which has a lot of interesting situations on this topic.

Kelley, Povero. “There Goes the Neighborhood?” Athletic Management (2007).

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