Venue News: Milwaukee Bucks Arena Opening Postponed; Temporary Injunction Halts OU Stadium Expansion

The Milwaukee Bucks say the planned opening of their new downtown arena will be delayed by a year, writes the Associated Press. The team hoped to have the arena ready by the start of the 2017-2018 NBA season. But the Bucks said Tuesday their construction schedule now targets an opening for the 2018-2019 season. The NBA had threatened to move the team if a new arena wasn’t built by 2017. But an NBA spokesman said Tuesday that the league is “comfortable with the revised timetable.”…

Bucks…A Cleveland County judge says steel construction work on the University of Oklahoma’s stadium expansion must halt as soon as a Kansas steel manufacturer posts an injunction bond of $178,770. According to The Oklahoman, attorneys for OU, construction project manager Flintco Inc. and W&W Steel had asked for a $35 million bond to cover damages the university says it will sustain if the stadium construction is delayed. District Judge Thad Balkman issued a temporary injunction Friday night to stop construction but stayed it from going into effect until he ruled on the amount of an injunction bond to be posted by HME Inc., the Kansas-based steel manufacturer that claims the company submitted the lowest bid for the expansion work. HME is suing the OU Board of Regents, Flintco and W&W Steel because the contract was awarded to the second-lowest bidder, which was W&W Steel…

…During the final season of Sacramento Kings basketball at Sleep Train Arena, fans will notice some new technology. To comply with enhanced NBA security guidelines, metal detectors are now stationed at every entrance to the arena, writes Fox 40. The Kings organization has also added self-piloted security robots that roam on wheels at various places around the arena, and will experiment with virtual reality and high-speed WiFi throughout the season…

…Owners of a recently awarded Major League Soccer franchise committed Friday to building a nearly 20,000-seat stadium in St. Paul, abandoning earlier plans to put their home in Minneapolis, writes CBS 13. Minnesota United executive William McGuire and St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman celebrated a deal for what they said would be a privately financed, $120 million stadium on a barren parcel along Interstate 94…

…Temple University wants to build a 35,000-seat football stadium on campus. Board of Trustees Chairman Patrick O’Connor tells The Philadelphia Inquirer that a stadium is being pursued for the northwest corner of campus, about a block from the Liacouras Center, its basketball arena. He says the proposed $100 million stadium has already drawn some “seven-figure commitments” for funding…

…San Diego has unveiled a new stadium design for Mission Valley in a slick video narrated by Dick Enberg, writes KUSI News. It’s telling the NFL the city is offering the team the best Super Bowl venue in the country, a stadium for the fan of the future. The design is San Diego-centric, with dramatic forms mindful of the terrain where the stadium sits in Mission Valley…

…Nationwide Realty Investors, the developer of the Arena District, will install a new digital and billboard display wall in the district across from Nationwide Arena at Front Street and Nationwide Boulevard, writes The Columbus Dispatch. The new display will feature a video screen, five advertising billboards, a team-branded Columbus Blue Jackets backlit feature and a clock face.

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