MEAC office relocating to Tidewater
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference is on the move again.
Just one week after announcing that the conference was moving its basketball tournament to Raleigh after a seven-year stay in Richmond, the conference office is ending a 23-year stay in Greensboro, N.C.
According to a story in Saturday's Greensboro News & Record by Jeff Carlton, the MEAC was expected to announce this week that it will take up residence in Virginia Beach, Va.
The story says the Virginia Beach City Council would decide on $50,000 in funding for the relocation of the MEAC headquarters when it met Tuesday, June 14.
Marc Bush, president of the Greensboro Sports Commission, says in the story that he knew from the discussions he'd had with Thomas that the MEAC an 11-school Division I conference that includes North Carolina A&T in Greensboro and has a footprint that stretches from Daytona Beach, Fla., to Delaware would need new accommodations if it were to remain in the city. Bush said the city could not make that kind of offer.
The MEAC office is currently located on the fourth floor of the aging Southeastern Building in downtown Greensboro. It has been at the current location since 1982. The league office was based in Durham, N.C., when the league got its start in 1969.
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