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Tag: RP Funding Center

Posted inCity Hall

City Casts a Wide Net for New Director to Make the RP Funding Center More Profitable

by Cindy Glover July 3, 2023July 5, 2023

The city’s focus has shifted from subsidizing and promoting events to simply providing rental space.

Posted inSports

First Magic, Now Tropics: Teams Cite ‘Exorbitant’ Rent Hikes for Leaving

by Cindy Glover April 21, 2023April 25, 2023

After seven seasons, the Florida Tropics soccer club announced Friday that it can no longer afford to play at the RP Funding Center.

Posted inSports

End of an Era: Magic Leaving Lakeland

by Kimberly C. Moore April 11, 2023April 12, 2023

The Orlando Magic’s G League team is heading to Kissimmee, where team officials hope to sell more tickets and be closer to Orlando.

Posted inCity Hall

RP Funding Center Name Would Remain, Under More Lucrative Agreement

by Barry Friedman January 13, 2023January 17, 2023

The city of Lakeland would receive $1.25 million over the next five years for naming rights, a $500,000 increase.

Posted inA & E, City Hall

RP Funding Center Faces Budget Challenges as New Season Opens

by Donna Renfroe September 21, 2022January 13, 2023

The RP Funding Center opens its 2022-23 entertainment season this month as Lakeland city commissioners decide on an annual budget that would lower operational costs and prompt programming changes that are hoped to attract new audiences. 

Posted inA & E

City Negotiating Naming Rights for RP Funding Center

by Barry Friedman August 15, 2022January 13, 2023

Is the RP Funding Center getting a new name? The city of Lakeland is currently negotiating naming rights for the performing arts/sports/convention center that opened as The Lakeland Civic Center in 1974, morphed into The Lakeland Center in 1996 and was rechristened as RP Funding Center in 2017.

Posted inA & E, City Hall

Mayor Lauds RP Funding Center Chief, Then Insists He Further Slash the City’s Subsidy

by John Haughey March 16, 2022March 16, 2022

Tony Camarillo kept the RP Funding Center doors open during a seven-year, $16 million renovation, negotiated a five-year, $5 million sponsorship deal that brought an NBA minor league team to Lakeland and reduced the city’s annual operations subsidy by 60% despite enduring a pandemic-induced “worst year ever” in 2020.

Posted inA & E

Complex Question: What if RP Funding Center Became an Arts Hub?

by Joel Carrier April 1, 2021January 13, 2023

Kerry Falwell has big what-if questions on her mind these days: What if Lakeland focused resources to create a vibrant center for visual and performing arts? And what if the RP Funding Center became the official home of Lakeland’s arts scene?

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