Once designed as standalone venues, cities across the country are beginning to leverage investment in sports arenas and stadiums to reinvigorate entire urban districts. Integrating sports venues into the urban fabric transforms them from sporadic activity generators into economic redevelopment engines that provide a far more beneficial and wide-ranging economic impact on a daily basis. [...]

Opened in 2005, North Bank Park marked the beginning of Columbus’ riverfront renaissance. With the MSI-designed Scioto Mile under construction and the recently opened Grange Audubon Center on the Whittier Peninsula, downtown’s riverfront park system has nearly been completely rebuilt over the last decade.
North Bank Park reconnected the Arena District to the Scioto River by [...]