Syracuse’s Carrier Dome will be changing its name due to a new brand partnership, Sportico reports.
The iconic venue has kept the same name for 43 years after Carrier Global Corporation gave the school a $2.75 million donation in 1979, a year before the venue opened, in return for naming rights for the life of the venue. This makes its partnership one of the longest running naming rights agreements in sports history.
Now, the school and company decided to part ways, ending the corporation’s naming rights deal. Carrier closed two plants in Syracuse and laid off 1,200 workers after rejecting an incentive package in late 2003.