Industry Bulletins

The Outdoor Recreation Roundtable (ORR), in collaboration with the Richard King Mellon Foundation, the PA Wilds Center for Entrepreneurship, and the Pennsylvania Office of Outdoor Recreation, hosted its inaugural National Leadership Forum on Rural Development through Outdoor Recreation.

The National League of Cities (NLC) announced that more than 1,000 cities have utilized the Local Infrastructure Hub’s free grant-writing trainings designed to help communities develop competitive grant applications for federal funding available through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act. 

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Chair Alex Hoehn-Saric and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.-25) announced more than $2.5 million in grants to 10 awardees under the Pool Safely Grant Program (PSGP). 

International Play Equipment Manufacturers Association (IPEMA), a non-profit trade association, has published its 2024 IPEMA Insights Report which explores emerging trends shaping the playground equipment industry.

As part of its evolution, the Health & Fitness Association has renamed its convention and trade show, formerly called IHRSA, as The HFA Show, the global trade association for health club and studio operators announced.

A new report by the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) highlights salary and bonus data for 13 typical park and recreation professional positions, including agency director, planning director, finance director, recreation director and park operations director, among others. 

The Pool & Hot Tub Alliance (PHTA), the trade association representing the swimming pool, hot tub, and spa industry, announced Solenis LLC as its newest Strategic Partner. 

SYNLawn, a leading global manufacturer and innovator of sustainable synthetic turf, announced how the 24,000 square meters of artificial grass they installed at the Euro 2024 Fan Zone installation will be repurposed to benefit residents of Berlin. 

Yanmar Compact Equipment will provide its first trade show demo of the manufacturer’s new compact track loaders at the Equip Exposition, Oct. 16-18, 2024, in Louisville, Ky.

“Putting sound into a large college football stadium is always about punching all the way to the other side of the facility, but also sounding good doing it, which is why we landed on the K2,” said Ben Boeshans, Senior Consultant at Salas O’Brien, which designed and specified the L-Acoustics sound system installed at Nashville’s FirstBank Stadium, just in time for the start of the 2024-25 college football season. 

Klusty Sign Associates in Cincinnati is the Grand Prize winner of the 2024 Watchfire LED Sign Awards for their outstanding design and installation at Garver Family Farm Market in Middletown, Ohio.

Commercial Recreation Specialists (CRS) announced its fall 2024 tradeshow tour, spanning key industry events across the United States.