Entertainment and Hospitality

STROH CENTER | Bowling Green, OH

The Stroh Center is the home of the Falcon men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball programs. It is also a state-of-the-art venue for concerts, commencements, lectures, and numerous campus and community events. The facility includes locker rooms, meeting rooms, coaching staff offices for the teams, the BGSU Athletics Hall of Fame, the Falcon’s Nest Team Store, a ticket office, and the Schmidthorst Pavilion. The building opened in September 2011, seats 4,387 people for basketball and volleyball games and 5,209 for convocation events and concerts.
 

The Stroh Center was designed by Rossetti Architects of Southfield , Michigan and the Cleveland office of the URS Group Inc. engineering firm. A major goal of the construction was to replicate the intimacy of Anderson Arena, while providing athletes and spectators the modern comforts of a state-of-the-art convocation center. To accommodate this the Stroh Center was built in a theatre-in-the-round design, providing an open walkway allowing spectators to walk completely around the facility without missing the event on the stadium floor.^[16] The arena also includes 88 courtside seats and the furthest seat in the arena, 60 feet (18 m) from the court, is only 5 feet (1.5 m) further from the furthest seat at Anderson Arena. The seat widths at the Stroh Center range from 19-22 inches, while the largest seat at Anderson was only 18 inches. The arena also has four restrooms each at the north and south ends of the arena (two for women, one for men and one for families) and provides four concession areas in the open walkways.

SCHUSTER PERFORMING ARTS | Dayton, OH

The Schuster Performing Arts Center occupies a full block in the very center of Dayton. The complex is made up of three major components: the Mead Theatre, the Winter Garden, and an 18-story office/residential tower with below grade parking. The complex, located opposite the Victoria Theatre and the Loft Theatre, is the centerpiece of Dayton’s arts district.

The Mead Theatre is a 2,300-seat, multi-purpose hall. It is accompanied by the 150-seat Mathile Theatre, which is used for rehearsals, small-scale performances and special events. A celestial dome lit with fiber optic “stars” replicates the sky on December 16, 1903, the eve of the first powered flight of Dayton natives the Wright Brothers.

The Winter Garden, a glazed public atrium, is the focal point of the complex. It serves as a lobby for the theater and as a forecourt for a restaurant and ticket office.

HOLLYWOOD RACINO | Dayton, OH

Part of the Hollywood Casino franchise, Dayton Racino’s 100,000-square-foot gaming facility features a combination of racing and slot machines in its adjacent casino. The racino complex is on a 170-acre site.

The complex’s gaming facility features 1,000 video lottery terminals (VLTs), a restaurant and sports bar, a food court, stores, and, of course, racing. An outdoor, 5/8-mile horse track is surrounded by 1,000 enclosed seats, and the campus includes a 126-stall horse paddock and related buildings

Every low-voltage installation in the gaming market is unique. Each casino requires the latest in security and IP connections. The Hollywood Gaming Dayton Raceway had to be able to incorporate new technology, and it needed the flexibility to move its gaming stations as required.
 

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FIFTH THIRD FIELD | Dayton, OH

Fifth Third Field is a minor league baseball stadium which is the home of the Dayton Dragons, a Midwest League team and a Single-A affiliate of the nearby Cincinnati Reds.

The park has a total capacity of 8,200 people and opened in 2000. With two-deck seating and large sky-boxes, some compare it to Triple-A fields.

In 2014, over $1.2 million was spent upgrading Fifth Third Field’s entertainment control room and adding HD cameras throughout. In 2015, the existing video board was replaced in the off season with a new 2,054-foot 13HD video board that was three times brighter than the previous board, twice the height and 2½ times the width. Described as featuring the clearest picture ever used on any board in a minor league baseball stadium, the board, at the time of installation, was the tallest and widest in a Single-A facility and in the top five in terms of size for any minor league baseball stadium.

FIFTH THIRD FIELD | Toledo, OH

Fifth Third Field, located at 406 Washington St. is the anchor of Hensville and downtown Toledo’s Warehouse District. The award-winning facility is home to the Toledo Mud Hens, Triple-A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers.

One of the top minor league ballparks in the country, its 9,000-seat venue is available year round for large-scale events like fundraisers and company picnics.

OHIO STADIUM | Columbus, OH

Story posted below from Ohio State University:

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Texting with friends and family and posting on social media inside Ohio Stadium is about to become a reality for more than 100,000 fans. The project to improve high density wireless connectivity is expected to be completed in time for the season opening game August 31 against Florida Atlantic.

“The contractors working on behalf of the Department of Athletics and the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) have worked above and beyond to get us to this point of having stadium-wide Wi-Fi in time for the first game,” senior associate athletics director/chief information officer Jim Null said.

“Those involved – the Design Team, Osborn Engineering, Smoot Construction, Ohio Electric, Kastle and Ampthink – knew how important expanded coverage in the stadium was for our fans and they have worked efficiently and quickly to get this installation completed. Performance is important, as well. The first game will set a baseline for Wi-Fi that will help us make adjustments and fine-tune performance for each subsequent game.”

Workers will have pulled 47 miles of copper and fiber wire throughout Ohio Stadium when the project is completed. The wire is connected to a massive number of access points – 2,009 – that have been installed since the project began in January of this year. The installation of 4,018 antennas is also included in the project. Equipment has all been seamlessly placed to blend in and to not disrupt the iconic integrity of the facility.

HUNTINGTON ARENA | Toledo, OH

Lucas County’s newest attraction, the $105-million state-of-the-art Huntington Center, is located in downtown Toledo, Ohio. The ground breaking on the 8,000 plus seat multi-purpose arena began October 1, 2007. Huntington Center utilizes both indoor and outdoor areas around the facility. There are 20 private suites and 750 prestige club seats as well as a club-level lounge, a banquet facility, a team merchandise store and a modern scoreboard.

Huntington Center is one of the nation’s first LEED certified professional sports arenas. The Center’s signature green design element is a 900-square-foot “green wall” outside of the building, which will feature the use of plant life on the exterior of the building to help cool the center by shading the glass-enclosed main entrance.

UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON ARENA | Dayton, OH

The University of Dayton Arena recently completed renovations costing $72 million. This critically important project will result in a state-of-the-art facility. The end results of the renovation will greatly enhance the fan and student athlete experiences and dramatically improve the infrastructure while maintaining the current seating capacity.

The renovation included completion of the new north-side and west-side entrances, west-side concourse and west-side 300/400 level seats, west-side club seats between 200/300 levels and west-side concourse club, new elevator and stairs to event level (west side only) and 400 level entrance (east side only).

Sleek exterior design with upgraded lighting, new court lighting and improved Wi-Fi.

TOLEDO GLASS MUSEUM | Toledo, OH

The annex to the Toledo Museum of Art is both an exhibition space for the museum’s glass collection and a glass making facility. Conceived as a single one-story volume penetrated by courtyards with sight-lines through layers of transparent walls, the visitor’s experience will always involve the surrounding greenery.

Individually, each space is enclosed in clear glass, resulting in cavity walls that act as buffer zones between different climates, museum exhibition spaces, the glass making hot-shop, and the outdoors.

The plan is derived from a grid of various rectilinear shapes reflecting programmatic adjacency, with room-to-room connections achieved using curving glass surfaces. Glass is wrapping the spaces forming continuous elevations, uninterrupted by corners. The visitor flows with the form through a series of interconnected bubbles.

GREAT AMERICAN BALLPARK | Cincinnati, OH

Located on the winding banks of the Ohio River in downtown Cincinnati, Great American Ball Park serves as the home of the Cincinnati Reds, baseball’s first professional franchise. It has five levels, a 43,000 seating capacity with 30 telecommunications rooms. Kastle Technologies installed 2,994 voice/data workstation locations, 40,000 copper feeder terminations, 1,284 fiber optic terminations, 30,000 feet of fiber optic cable, 25,000 feet of copper feeder cable and 750,000 feet of category six cable.