{"id":1605,"date":"2018-02-07T02:43:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T07:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2018-02-07T02:43:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T07:43:07","slug":"toms-river-school-district-looking-to-sell-naming-rights-for-the-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2018\/02\/toms-river-school-district-looking-to-sell-naming-rights-for-the-bubble\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River School District Looking to Sell Naming Rights for ‘The Bubble’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Bennett Indoor Sports Complex bubble. (File Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

Selling naming rights for the John Bennett Indoor Sports Complex, more commonly known as \u201cthe bubble,\u201d is part of a plan to upgrade the facility and turn it into a year-round operation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat bubble, right now, is an eight month facility,\u201d said Superintendent David Healy. \u201cIn the summer, it\u2019s 115 degrees in there. It\u2019s a work in progress, but we\u2019d like to make that a 12 month facility.\u201d<\/p>\n

The district \u201chas an interest\u201d in obtaining naming rights for the bubble, and has already conducted a traffic study to determine how many times motorists would see a potential sponsor\u2019s logo when the drive by. The study showed there would be 11 million \u201cimpressions,\u201d or views, each year \u2013 significantly more than the arena at Toms River High School North, which was recently named for RWJ Barnabas Health<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe objective is to have that bubble filled as much as we can,\u201d said Healy, who discussed the matter at a town meeting on a proposed referendum to provide funding for facilities improvements district-wide. Shorebeat will report separately on the referendum plan, but some of its funding, which is likely to exceed $100 million, could end up going to projects related to the bubble, such as building a paved lot and linking it to Toms River Intermediate East.<\/p>\n

The bubble is \u201cin the black,\u201d said William Doering, the district\u2019s business administrator, explaining that the facility hosts tournaments and has several revenue sources. Revenue from naming rights would go into a special account, he said, just as receipts from users do.<\/p>\n

The bubble costs about $75,000 per year in maintenance costs, and \u201ca couple hundred thousand dollars,\u201d roughly, in utility costs since it needs to remain pressurized even when not in use, officials said.<\/p>\n

Healy said upgrades to the bubble would include air conditioning and bathrooms, as well as a fully paved parking lot.<\/p>\n

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Selling naming rights for the John Bennett Indoor Sports Complex, more commonly known as \u201cthe bubble,\u201d is part of a plan to upgrade the facility and turn it into a year-round operation. \u201cThat bubble, right now, is an eight month facility,\u201d said Superintendent David Healy. \u201cIn the summer, it\u2019s 115 degrees in there. It\u2019s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[529,527,528,530],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-toms-river-schools","tag-bubble","tag-john-bennett-indoor-sports-complex","tag-sports-bubble","tag-toms-river-intermediate-school-east"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tr_bubble.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}