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      Arena-Anchored Urban Development Projects and the Visitor Economy

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          Cities of all sizes are actively engaged in developing various urban infrastructure projects. A common strategy used in larger North American cities is employing arena-anchored urban development projects, where a professional sports team is used as an anchor tenant of a sports facility to generate development in the city. One means of relocating economic activity is to increase visitation to the desired redevelopment area. In this paper we used the visitor economy as a lens to explore how arena-anchored projects and the professional sports teams that play there fit into a local city's tourism economy. To conduct this study, a multi case study design was used to draw data from two cities: Columbus, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan. Interviews were goal directed and conducted in person with leaders in Columbus ( n = 9) and Detroit ( n = 10), and inductive and deductive approaches to coding were undertaken in the form of content analysis. The results indicate that growing the visitor economy through arena anchored urban development relies on planned placemaking via the strategic approach of bundling diverse amenities together. These findings provide valuable feedback to those cities considering arena development projects, and how the arenas may be combined with other civic amenities to undergird the local visitor economy.

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                Journal
                Front Sports Act Living
                Front Sports Act Living
                Front. Sports Act. Living
                Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                2624-9367
                21 June 2022
                2022
                : 4
                : 912926
                Affiliations
                Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta , Edmonton, AB, Canada
                Author notes

                Edited by: Gayle McPherson, University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom

                Reviewed by: Vassilios Ziakas, Independent Researcher, Leeds, United Kingdom; Richard Keith Wright, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

                *Correspondence: Taryn Barry tbarry@ 123456ualberta.ca

                This article was submitted to Sport, Leisure, Tourism, and Events, a section of the journal Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

                Article
                10.3389/fspor.2022.912926
                9253392
                c00ccda8-44c0-427e-a2e5-9788fcd69b5b
                Copyright © 2022 Barry, Mason and Trzonkowski.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 05 April 2022
                : 27 May 2022
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 1, Equations: 0, References: 41, Pages: 6, Words: 5272
                Funding
                Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, doi 10.13039/501100000155;
                Categories
                Sports and Active Living
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                cities,arenas,stadiums,visitor economy,placemaking
                cities, arenas, stadiums, visitor economy, placemaking

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