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From the street, it’s hard to determine how Orlando City’s future stadium is progressing. Take a few steps over mounds of dirt covered in tire tracks, though, and the picture becomes more clear.

...Standing on a top step, overlooking it all on Monday afternoon was Orlando City majority owner Flávio Augusto da Silva, who visited the stadium site for the first time.

Tim Romani, of ICON Venue Group signs the final steel beam during a topping off ceremony for the Las Vegas Arena Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Representatives from MGM Resorts International and AEG, contractors Hunt-Penta and elected officials were on hand to celebrate the installation of the arena’s final steel beam. The $375 million arena is scheduled to open in Spring 2016.

Las Vegas: the home of high rollers, stratospheric expectations and monumental pomp. MGM and AEG’s new Las Vegas Arena will, says its website, ‘bring the city, and the world, a whole new place to play… The Arena is what the Coliseum was to Rome. It will redefine and reshape how the monolithic events of our time are experienced and remembered.’ Low-key it isn’t.

The developers of the US $375m indoor arena broke ground on May 1, 2014, with completion scheduled for spring 2016, building through a period when Las Vegas’s offering to visitors continues to evolve....

For ICON Venue Group’s President and CEO Tim Romani, this was unfinished business. Romani served as president and GM of Pepsi Center in Denver back when the building was built in 1999. He said the audio and visual components were among the last things purchased, so the National Basketball Association venue started with equipment that was “a cut below state-of- the-art, at that time.” Now, 14 years later, he’s getting a chance to make it right.

On Monday, January 16, 2012, ICON Venue Group team members Tim Romani and Dan Vaillant presented to Edmonton’s City Council. The presentation included information about ICON’s arena portfolio, photos of modern arena features, and conceptual illustrations created as a result of a preliminary programming study for the new Edmonton arena.

To view the presentation, please click on the following link: More

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