USA Basketball Announces Plan To Relocate Office Headquarters To Tempe, Arizona
-- USA Basketball Move Part Of $350 Million Development Project Planned For Downtown Tempe --
Tempe, Ariz., as part of a $350 million development project. USA Place, LLC, has been selected to develop a new national headquarters and training cen- ter for USA Basketball on a 10.5-acre site located next to Arizona State University’s Tempe campus on land owned by ASU at the southeast corner of Mill Avenue and University Drive. In addition to the USA Basketball
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headquarters and training center, USA Place will also include a 4,500-seat event center, as well as a 330-room Omni Hotel and 30,000-square-foot conference center, 500 luxury apart- ments, 160,000 square feet of retail and up to 200,000 square feet of office space, including the new home for Arizona Interscholastic Association events.
USA Basketball’s Board of Directors
approved the relocation at a Board meet- ing on July 25. The $350 million mixed- use commercial development plan is subject to Tempe City Council and Arizona Board of Regents final approval of development agreements. “This is an exciting and an incredi-
ble opportunity that offers nothing but positives for USA Basketball,” said USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo. “USA Place will offer USA Basketball an excellent site for the development of its office headquarters, a training center and event center that will provide the organization with a first-class site for hosting junior level events and will allow USA Basketball to continue to evolve. “The new USA Basketball headquar-
ters and training center will be first-class, state of art facilities, something I know we will be very proud of.” The principals of USA Place, LLC,
include Susan Eastridge, CEO of Concord Eastridge; Michael Hallmark, principal of Future Cities; and Robert Harris, CEO of Harris Sports & Entertainment.
USA Basketball News
SA Basketball officially announced on July 31 that it had agreed to relocate to
national teams. USA Basketball also features national teams for 3x3 competi- tions, and a youth development pro- gram, which provides kids, parents and coaches with instructional and educa- tional resources. A new multi-court event center,
with seating up to 4,500, will serve as the training site for USA Basketball pri- marily in the summer months and for regional youth and adult recreational and competitive athletics programming the rest of the year. The development site’s other major
The mixed-use plan created by
Future Cities emphasizes walkable urban neighborhoods with four and five-story residential units above retail shops, restaurants and services. Parking is designed to be primarily below grade and in one parking structure at the corner of 10th Street and Myrtle. USA Basketball is expected to
relocate its national headquarters and training center to USA Place in the fall of 2015.
Based in Colorado Springs, Colo.,
since January 1979, USA Basketball is a nonprofit organization and the national governing body for men's and women's basketball in the United States. As the recognized governing body for basket- ball in the U.S. by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), USA Basketball is responsible for the selection, training and fielding of USA teams that compete in FIBA spon- sored international competitions, includ- ing the Olympics and World Championships. USA Basketball’s programming for
men and women includes U16 (16 years old and under), U17, U18, U19 and the
anchor will be the full-service Omni Hotel which will be Tempe’s first four- diamond hotel. With 58 distinctive luxury hotels and resorts across North America, Omni Hotels & Resorts is recognized as a market leader for group and transient business as well as with leisure travelers. The adjacent 30,000- square-foot conference center will feature a grand ballroom capable of seat- ing 1,000 for dining, a junior ballroom and meeting space. In addition to USA Basketball, the
Arizona Interscholastic Association (AIA) will host programming at USA Place and plans for end-of-season state high school tournaments for boys and girls basketball, volleyball, wrestling, badminton and spiritline. High schools will also have an opportunity to partici- pate in regular season “Games-of-the- Week” there. AIA is the primary govern- ing body for high school athletics in Arizona. USA Place, LLC, will enter into a
long-term ground lease with a base term of 99 years. ASU and the City of Tempe have formed a partnership to support the creation of the conference center and as a result, the conference center will revert to public ownership after twenty years. Construction of the project is planned to begin by year-end with the hotel, conference center, event center and first phase of residential, retail and office scheduled to open during the second half of 2015.
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