{"id":804927,"date":"2026-05-18T11:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/804927\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:17:15","slug":"best-sports-business-cities-no-35-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/804927\/","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.europesays.com\/us\/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 \"><b>2023:<\/b> <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 \"><b>2024 Event Hosting: <\/b>Not ranked<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \"><b>2025 Soccer: <\/b>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":3,"featured_media":804928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,327667,101777,70721,4715,3188,723,7310,8013,4281,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-804927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-best-sports-business-cities","tag-data-and-insights","tag-everbank-stadium","tag-fanatics","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-jacksonville","tag-jaguars","tag-print","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116595304136089380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}