Denver investors making play for WNBA expansion team as league commissioner visits this week, source says

August 14, 2023

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert will visit Denver on Wednesday as the league assesses the city’s potential for an expansion team, possibly as early as 2025.

The group, which includes Robert Cohen, chairman and chief executive officer of IMA Financial Group; Navin Dimond, CEO and co-founder of Stonebridge Companies, a hospitality and hotel development company; and his daughter Ashley Dimond, who works as Stonebridge’s director of strategy, declined to discuss it, but a source who is closely involved with Engelbert’s visit confirmed she will be in the city to meet with an investment team and tour gyms where a WNBA team could play and practice. Denver Post