Venue News: NFL Searches for Temporary L.A. Stadium; Boston Unveils Latest Plans for 2024 Olympic Bid

The NFL’s search for a temporary Los Angeles stadium is officially underway, according to the Los Angeles Times. In late June, the league began issuing proposal requests to multiple venues in Southern California — among them the Coliseum and Rose Bowl — with the intent of securing a temporary home for a team (or teams) for the 2016 season in the event of a return to the market. The league has scheduled a special meeting of NFL owners on Aug. 11 in Chicago to update them on the L.A. situation and to further define the schedule for one or two potential club relocations…

…Boston’s original 2024 plan — as in Bid 1.0 — was to build a temporary Olympic aquatics complex on the site of the former Beacon Park rail yards down by the Charles, writes the Boston Globe. All it would have taken was straightening out the Mass. Pike for $260 million, building a new West Station for $25 million, and persuading Harvard, which owns the acreage, to defer its development plans for another nine years. When the Boston 2024 committee unveiled its 2.0 version Monday, half of its first-thought venues, from archery to wrestling, had been shifted elsewhere. A bunch of others, including aquatics, track cycling, mountain biking, and golf, still were TBD, as were the sites for the preliminary basketball and soccer matches. This is what happens when Olympic renderings run up against realities…

…The Tennessee Titans’ home field is changing its name from LP Field to Nissan Stadium, writes the Associated Press. Officials from the Titans and Nissan recently announced a 20-year partnership that renames Nashville’s downtown stadium. The naming rights are subject to approval by the NFL and Metro Government Authority. The Titans’ home stadium had been known as LP Field since 2006. The stadium opened in 1999 and was named Adelphia Coliseum at the time…

…Iowa State is putting the finishing touches on upgrades to Jack Trice Stadium, with the seating capacity jumping to over 60,000 in the end, writes NBC Sports. The expansion of the stadium will make Iowa State home to the third largest stadium in the Big 12 (behind only Texas and Oklahoma). Iowa State will open the doors to the newly renovated Jack Trice Stadium on September 5 when the Cyclones host in-state FCS foe Northern Iowa…

…A proximity-based mobile marketing company, Signal 360, has been employed by the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks to enhance the technological experience of the fan, both in and outside of the arena, writes SportTechie. They will aim to produce a new technological experience that will be implemented through the Milwaukee Buck’s mobile app. Initially, Signal 360 placed their imprint on the team’s app during the 2015 playoffs when their beacons reached 95% of the mobile devices in the arena. Now, Signal 360 changed their beacon, allowing the app to be utilized both in the arena and outside, at Buck’s events such as the Summer Block Party and Summer Fest. Using both Sonic Audio Technology and BLE with full iBeacon support, Signal 360’s Beacon can reach a vast amount of different devices…