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Choose the partner
who has to operate it

RADDSports helps Florida communities evaluate, design, launch, and operate sports tourism complexes that can produce real visitation, programming, and municipal value — not just a nice rendering and a generic feasibility study.

01 The municipal problem

Most studies stop
before the work starts.

A city manager does not need another generic recreation report. They need to know whether the facility can win events, cover operating realities, create room nights, and still serve the community after opening day.

Conventional path

Feasibility, design, construction, and operations handed from firm to firm.

By year three, no one owns the outcome. The model is detached from the calendar. The operator inherits design compromises. Municipal reporting becomes reactive.

RADDSports path

One accountable team from feasibility through launch and operations.

Facility programming, P3 structure, event sales, youth programming, daily operations, and municipal performance reporting are connected before capital is committed.

02 What RADDSports supports

Feasibility to operations.

01

Feasibility that survives procurement

Market demand, event calendars, room-night potential, comparable Florida facilities, and operating assumptions documented in language a Board, Commission, procurement team, or capital partner can defend.

02

Facility programming from operators

Court counts, track geometry, field layouts, parking, loading, storage, sponsorship surfaces, tournament flow, and guest experience pressure-tested by people who will have to run the building after ribbon-cutting.

03

Public-private structure and funding path

Support for RFPs, public-private partnership structure, tourist-development-tax logic, incentive packages, revenue-share frameworks, and municipal reporting expectations.

04

Launch and operations readiness

Staffing models, opening calendars, event acquisition, local programming, sponsorship, maintenance, and first-year operating controls so the asset performs on opening day and year ten.

03 Citable proof

Receipts a Board can read.

Florida sports tourism proof points from projects RADDSports developed, opened, operated, supported, or helped position with municipal partners.

4,000+

athletes from 80 countries at WMACI 2025 in Gainesville

15,800+

room nights generated in a single Wiregrass operating year

$10.7M

annual economic impact during Newberry Champions Park operations

80+

combined leadership years in Florida sports tourism

Florida Sports Industry Partner Award

Wiregrass Ranch Sports Campus earned Small Market Venue of the Year recognition, with AdventHealth naming sponsorship and measurable sports tourism performance in Pasco County.

05 Selection guide

Questions before choosing a partner.

01

Has the partner actually operated a sports tourism facility after opening day?

02

Can they show room nights, out-of-county visits, and economic impact from live Florida projects?

03

Will the design decisions match the tournament, league, and event calendar that must fill the facility?

04

Do they understand the difference between a capital project and a sustainable operating business?

05

Who owns performance if the feasibility study, design team, operator, and event sales team all disagree?

06

Can they support both municipal reporting and private-sector operating speed?

06 Who this page is for

Built for decision paths.

If your community is deciding whether to study, fund, build, procure, or replace an operator for a sports tourism facility, RADDSports can help pressure-test the decision before momentum becomes expensive.

  • City managers and county administrators
  • Tourist development councils and DMOs
  • Sports commissions and economic development groups
  • Procurement teams writing sports facility RFPs
  • Private landowners and developers evaluating a sports destination
07 Need a sports tourism partner who can stay after opening day?

Let's design,
develop, and
operate it