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Preventing Turf Wars

Providing enough space to meet pickleball demand is important, but experts advise doing so without taking space away from your community’s avid tennis players.

Setting Professional Boundaries

Regretfully, unwanted advances still happen during professional trade shows and events. Here, Juliene Hefter of the Association of Aquatic Professionals addresses the issue with advice on setting boundaries in this thoughtful column.

Mastering the Plan

Master planning is an essential step in developing and revitalizing community spaces, but it comes with challenges, including how to fit community expectations into budgetary constraints. 

Trends in Sports & Recreation Centers

Recreation centers and sports centers provide a range of programming, from fitness and youth sports to arts and crafts, senior programs and more. Here, we take a look at Industry Report survey responses from public and private sports and rec centers. 

Trends in Camps

Camp facilities help people of all ages get closer to nature. From sleepaway youth camps and resort campgrounds to basic campground facilities, we cover the trends reported by professionals working for camp facilities. 

Heavy Rain Highlights Success of Field Improvements

A $2.1 million investment and advancement in a recently completed drainage project for Maryland SoccerPlex’s 20 native soil natural fields provided its value when fields remained open despite storms and rain.

Considerations in Surface Prep

With equipment innovations that reduce costs and improve ROI, waterblasting has emerged as an alternative to sandblasting for removing plaster and paint, and preparing for new surfaces and coatings.