Progress & Industry: BVHA fundraises for indoor rink
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The Brandon Valley Hockey Association is actively fundraising to build an indoor rink.
A location in Aspen Park has been tentatively earmarked for the rink, and the BVHA is hoping fundraising will be successful enough to break ground on the building in 2020.
“Our families clearly want it. Our community wants it,” said Sarah Rasmussen, BVHA board member.
And Great Plains Sponsorships plans to help make it happen.
The BVHA partnered with GPS in 2019 to secure naming rights to the new indoor rink and six to eight founding sponsors.
“It’s an opportunity that doesn’t come knocking every day,” said Ryan Patrick, who’s marketing the BVHA throughout the Sioux Empire and nationally.
The proposed facility will be 37,000 square feet and cost an estimated $8.2 million. Patrick envisions it with a sponsored mezzanine, space for private hospitality events, open skating and even curling.
More than $2 million is out in proposals currently, he said, and he hopes to secure the naming rights partner this fall. Sponsorships will be negotiable, he added – “made-to-measure” for the companies waiting to snap them up.
“People want a piece of Brandon,” Patrick said. “It’s open for the taking right now. Everybody wants a little bit of that market share.”
