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http://hamptonroads.com/2014/07/dollar-t...llion-deal

This development is significant in that Dollar Tree is now the largest Fortune 500 company in the area. This is pure speculation, and I'm not sure the acquisition makes any difference now than before, but ODU's football stadium may have another player for stadium naming rights. Smithfield Foods committed to put up $50mil for arena naming rights when Norfolk was wooing the Charlotte Hornets. Things may change now that the Chinese are calling the shots. I'm happy that there may be another suitor for naming rights, but I'm cringing that ODU's football stadium may be called "Dollar Tree Stadium"[FLUSHED FACE]. I already hate having to defend that Monarchs are lions and not butterflies.


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Mabey Macon and Joan Brock will simply just give the money for the naming rights, since he started the Dollar Tree Company and has give a lot to many colleges especially Randolph Macon. He has his name on a couple of nice size buildings there.

Dollar Tree Stadium... ahah!

I know it won't happen, but Norfolk Southern Stadium would be cool. Nickname it The Tracks, donate a train horn, and boom. (We keep the Howitzer.)

The Tree

Have this play in the stadium

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nFZP8zQ5kzk

If it means an awesome new state of the art stadium gets here that much faster and better, who gives a sh.t what the name of it is?

Norfolk Southern Stadium -- "The Hump Yard"

I think it has kind of a nice ring to it.

hump yard - A yard where railcars are rearranged by rolling down a hill into a series of tracks.

(07-28-2014 11:47 PM)ODU AGGIE Wrote: [ -> ]Norfolk Southern Stadium -- "The Hump Yard"

I think it has kind of a nice ring to it.

hump yard - A yard where railcars are rearranged by rolling down a hill into a series of tracks.

BTW this is it:

Dollar Tree just bought Family Dollar.

Maybe something like Dollar Stadium.

I personally couldn't care less what the name is as long as it's nice. If some of our wealthiest alum want to give back in such an awesome capacity, I'm all for it. It looks good, from a public relations perspective, when alum give large gifts to a university.

Evergreen Enterprises could be a dark horse contender as well. This company was founded by ODU alum as well and averages over 200 million in revenue per year.

Evergreen Field at Dollar Tree Stadium?
Evergreen stadium?

Of course it would be built according to LEED Certifications.

I hope my firm wins the stadium contract (with partners). Will be great to see the design come along. It would absolutely be LEED. =]

Hey... maybe we could get a name on there?! We're probably half the size of Evergreen and nowhere near Dollar Tree.

Hated to see this happen personally. The Levine Family (founders of Family Dollar) has their name all over Charlotte. In fact, our most comprehensive scholarship program is funded by the Levines.

I doubt this impacts their philanthropy in our community in any way since they were billionaires, but I still hate to see Charlotte lose another Fortune 500 company. This city seems to have a knack for building up Fortune 500 companies from scratch and then having them get bought out.

Since 2008, Wachovia, Harris Teeter, Goodrich, and now Family Dollar have all gotten bought out. Hasn't really negatively impacted employment in the area, but we have a great history of our business leaders donating big time money to charities, arts, and education in the city and I'm afraid that will lessen over time as these people die and their corporations relocate the HQ to other areas.

As for the topic itself, anything related to Dollar Tree or Family Dollar for a stadium name would sound really tacky.

If Dollar Tree can extend its pricing structure to the concessions, I say welcome to the family!

Ever heard of the Dean Smith Center? How about Ohio Stadium? No naming rights there. Michigan Stadium. Dick Price Stadium. Scott Stadium. Bryant-Denny Stadium.

We shouldn't slut our stadium around to the highest bidder. Have some dignity for your school. This isn't a professional sport.

Name it after the "architect" of ODU Football. I don't think anyone would argue with that.

Why does it have to be some rich "Fortune 500" Company?

Dog 'n' Burger Stadium.

Notice the ODU banner in the window.

(07-29-2014 05:30 PM)Sirloin Burger Wrote: [ -> ]Ever heard of the Dean Smith Center? How about Ohio Stadium? No naming rights there. Michigan Stadium. Dick Price Stadium. Scott Stadium. Bryant-Denny Stadium.

We shouldn't slut our stadium around to the highest bidder. Have some dignity for your school. This isn't a professional sport.

Name it after the "architect" of ODU Football. I don't think anyone would argue with that.

Wilder Stadium. Head out to "The Wild" on game day. The crowd goes Wild. We're Wild about the Monarchs. Old Dominion goes Wild on Rice, Marshall etc.

Ok, I'll stop now.

(07-29-2014 05:30 PM)Sirloin Burger Wrote: [ -> ]Ever heard of the Dean Smith Center? How about Ohio Stadium? No naming rights there. Michigan Stadium. Dick Price Stadium. Scott Stadium. Bryant-Denny Stadium.

We shouldn't slut our stadium around to the highest bidder. Have some dignity for your school. This isn't a professional sport.

Name it after the "architect" of ODU Football. I don't think anyone would argue with that.

So are you saying every single nfl football team should be ashamed?

Man that's dumb.

(07-29-2014 05:02 PM)Cyniclone Wrote: [ -> ]If Dollar Tree can extend its pricing structure to the concessions, I say welcome to the family!

+1