Lincoln Property Company, the real estate developer for the San Antonio Spurs called upon HPM to provide Audit & Advisory Services for the construction of Victory Capital Performance Center. The $140 million facility marks a new era for professional sports training, offering today’s most cutting-edge innovations in sports technology. Inside the center is a motion capture performance lab, environmental training room, sensory deprivation tank, team dining area and kitchen, and best of all, hydrotherapy pools.

The center was built with sustainability in mind. Victory Capital Performance Center is making history as the first mass timber constructed training facility in professional sports. The facility also incorporates rooftop solar panels to minimize energy use and save water.

HPM assisted the Spurs in negotiating a fair, final settlement of construction costs for the facility.

This is a first of its kind NFL/Local School District collaboration.

The project, which sits on approximately 90 acres, consists of an 11,000 seat indoor athletic stadium that the Frisco ISD and the Dallas Cowboys utilizes, a six story Dallas Cowboys headquarters office building, two outdoor practice fields, below grade parking garage, locker rooms, commercial kitchen, conference center, hydrotherapy, medical imaging and fitness center. HPM is providing Pay App Review, Interim and Final Audit services throughout the life of the project.

The new Atlanta Braves Spring Training complex CoolToday Park includes a 6,500 fixed-seat stadium with 2,500 general admission spots, a team clubhouse, training facilities, offices, a sports medicine academy, six practice baseball fields and two half-fields, five soccer, and multi-use fields, a parking lot and other features on a square-shaped plot of land. The stadium’s outfield is similar to the Brave’s home stadium in Truist Park. For this project, HPM provided pay app review, interim and final audit services, leading to significant cost savings for the owner.

Falcon Stadium, built in 1962, is home to the U.S. Air Force Academy football team, as well as other sports teams when Falcons football isn’t on the field.

The renovation and expansion project at the North End Zone of the historic Falcon Stadium includes the addition of 13,000-square-feet of space for player and coaches locker rooms, training, video, press, green, x-ray and multi-purpose locker rooms. With work being underground, the project also included sitework upgrades at the north end zone. The project was funded by private Endowment and Government funds requiring two different contracting methods.

Photography by Jonathan Haas with Davis Architects

Clover Park, formerly known as First Data Field or Tradition Field, is the spring training home of the New York Mets. HPM has been hired to manage the construction of $55 million in facility improvements.

The renovations to the facility will include a walkway connector around the outfield, a 50-room players’ academy and three little league baseball/softball fields that will be available for public use and for tournaments.

Training Facilities Improvements

• New full-size practice field with artificial turf
• New specialty training fields
• Batting cages
• Upgraded MLB clubhouse facilities

Stadium Renovations

• Expanded main concourse with outfield walkway
• New main concourse, concession stand, and restrooms
• Renovated home- and visiting-teams clubhouses
• Renovated facilities such as commissary, ticketing offices, and team store

Miscellaneous Upgrades

• Railings for aisles
• Seat replacement
• Mets Player Academy, consisting of dormitories, a cafeteria, and an auditorium
• New field for youth baseball and softball
• Upgrade elevator
• Pave and stripe parking lot
• HVAC work
• Ice machine and cooler replacements

The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches is the springtime home-away-from-home of the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals, offering a sunny and modern facility for spring training. The teams share the main stadium for games, but each has its own practice fields, outdoor batting cages, pitching mounds, and state-of-the-art conditioning rooms.

And it’s not just for the out-of-town teams — the complex is designed to host concerts, soccer matches, festivals and even marathons for West Palm Beach locals. HPM helped facilitate the fast-tracked project, providing input on factors including permitting, repair-and-replace agreements and even data management. Even after, HPM worked with the ballpark’s operations team, applying extensive event management to get the facility up and running throughout the inaugural spring training season.

CENTRALIZED INTELLIGENCE
HPM is usually brought in at the outset of the project, getting things off on the right foot and establishing plans and schedules that will keep stakeholders happy and avoid potential complications. However, it’s never too late to bring in the value of an experienced program manager, and HPM was proud to join the team already several months into the planning and design process. HPM also was proud to be able to help resolve inefficiencies standing in the way of a smoothly run project. The biggest gap they encountered was a lack of centralized data management, which is challenging since the project involved multiple cities, counties, and public and private entities. HPM organized all the critical information and assets into a single, web-based project management intelligence platform. With schedules, expenses, agreements, licenses, designs and other information easily accessible by those who needed them, everyone became happier — contractors and subcontractors were able to communicate better, stakeholders were able to stay apprised of the progress of the project and locals appreciated the sense of transparency from their elected officials.

DETAILS:

• 7,600-seat stadium
• Food service area
• Spring training facility for the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals

The Foley Sports Tourism Complex was conceived not just as a source of entertainment but also as a source of revenue and economic development, with multiple municipal bonds invested in its success.

The facility includes 16 sports fields suitable for soccer, lacrosse, seven-on-seven football, rugby and Ultimate Frisbee, and an event center with space for conventions and trade shows as well as 50,000 square feet of sports flooring for basketball, volleyball, cheerleading and dance competitions. HPM’s solution to the massive scope of the undertaking — a two-stage, multi-prime program — stretched the team in terms of resources, staffing, and sheer physical energy. But with HPM’s expertise and experience in managing intensely complex programs, the owner, the contractors and the people of Foley have been happy with the state-of-the-art field and event center.

THE ULTIMATE DEPTH CHART FOR A WINNING TEAM
The Foley Sports Tourism Complex was a large project, both financially and physically. Physically, the complex sits on a 500-acre site and incorporates 16 playing fields and a 90,000-square-foot event center. Financially, the budget topped $27 million, reliant on bonds from the City of Foley. To keep the price in line with the municipal budget, HPM split it into two phases and a total of nine packages, each with a different prime contractor. Purchasing out individual contracts and managing them directly saved the client considerable money — and it put HPM at the helm of nine simultaneous or overlapping projects. HPM is used to complex projects. A field coordinator monitored the site, overseeing the work of the numerous contractors. The HPM team held collective meetings with the contractors, bringing solutions to problems and presenting a standardized workflow and procedure for payouts and change orders to keep everyone on the same page — even as they worked on multiple projects all across the 500-acre site.

DETAILS:

• Multi-phase project
• 500-acre entertainment development and city sports complex
• 90,000 square foot event center
• 6 basketball course, convertible into 12 volleyball courts
• 15 state-of-the-art soccer/multi-use fields
• Championship field