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Re: have any teams had any luck approaching local malls for spaces to practice?
Another way to look at the problem of local "practice field" arena space is for your team to collaborate with the other teams in your area and time-share one facility.
make one field as a jointly-funded effort and then have both "open" and "closed" practice time slots so that you can use the facility with your team in secret and/or have open scrimmages.
As Kim poined out in earlier thread, liability insurance to use some neutral 3rd-party space (mall, warehouse, abandoned storefront) is a big issue as is setting up to get the utilities turned on, etc.
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