Grinder in Florence aims to be bigger than Disney sports complex
by Mark Cowling | Florence Reminder & Blade Tribune
A rendering of the Grinders sports complex proposed to be built in Florence./Town of Florence
ESPN Wide World of Sports in Florida’s Walt Disney resort is similar to what Grinder Sports Group LLC wants to build in Florence, the Florence Planning and Zoning Commission was told.
Commissioner Duane Proulx asked if a concept like Grinder’s is operating anywhere else, “or is this a new experiment for the town of Florence?”
Lyndon Estill, chief operations officer of Grinder, replied the closest similar development would be Wide World of Sports in Orlando, but even that one is just about 75% the size of what Grinder has planned.
