{"id":274953,"date":"2026-05-18T10:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274953\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:25:08","slug":"best-sports-business-cities-no-35-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274953\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Sports Business Cities: No. 35 Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BWZCC2BJDBDR5OYWHNCMO766IE.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"476\"\/>EverBank Stadium is undergoing a $1.45 billion renovation that will add a roof the venue. Jacksonville Jaguars <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The $1.45 billion EverBank Stadium makeover includes a roof that will cover 90% of the fans and is set to be ready in 2028. The city is home to VyStar Credit Union (the naming rights holder of a minor league ballpark and arena), the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl (since 1946), the Atlantic Sun Conference and Fanatics.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Rankings<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">2023: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2023\/03\/20\/In-Depth\/best-sports-business-cities-26-50\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2023\/03\/20\/In-Depth\/best-sports-business-cities-26-50\/\">#46<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">2024 Event Hosting: Not ranked<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">2025 Soccer: Not ranked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EverBank Stadium is undergoing a $1.45 billion renovation that will add a roof the venue. Jacksonville Jaguars The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[117402,60896,11704,117403,116,118,117,1630,117401],"class_list":["post-274953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-best-sports-business-cities","tag-data-and-insights","tag-everbank-stadium","tag-fanatics","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jaguars","tag-print"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}