MESA, Ariz. — Bell Bank announced Monday it was ending its partnership with Legacy Sports USA following public reports of financial concerns with the organization's Mesa facility.
The 320-acre sports complex near Ellsworth and Pecos roads will no longer carry Bell Bank in its name now that the company has decided to discontinue its agreement with Legacy Sports.
"Following various defaults under the naming rights agreement, as well as public reports of financial concern at the facility, Bell Bank notified Legacy Sports USA in November 2022 that it was terminating the agreement as the naming rights sponsor," Bell Bank wrote in a statement Monday.
The facility opened in January 2022 and was already in financial trouble by October, according to the Arizona Republic.
A couple of months after the Republic published an article detailing the complex's financial issues, Legacy Sports boasted about the 4.3 million visitors who came to the facility in 2022.
Bell Bank said it had no control over the operations or management of the Mesa facility.
Bell Bank Park will now be referred to as Legacy Park: Arizona's Premiere Sports & Entertainment Complex, according to Legacy Cares, the nonprofit that owns the facility.
"As we conclude our arrangement with Bell Bank, I want to thank them for their support as we opened this facility which is attended by millions every year. The search now begins in earnest for a new naming rights partner,” said Legacy Cares President Douglas Moss in a statement.
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