A qualifying project shall include convention centers, sports stadiums, exhibition and trade facilities, transportation facilities, cultural facilities, field houses, indoor and outdoor convention and recreational facilities and centers, playing fields, parking facilities and other suitable concessions, and all things incidental to or necessary to a complex suitable for all types of convention, recreational, transportation, cultural and meeting activities and for all types of sports and recreation, either professional or amateur, commercial or private, either upon, above or below the ground for which construction, including expansion, is commenced after January 1, 1989, or in the case of sports stadiums located within a county of the first class, for which renovation or improvements are commenced after January 1, 1989, except that no such stadium, complex or facility shall be used, in any fashion, for the purpose of horse racing, dog racing or any other pari-mutuel wagering. A qualifying project shall also include the costs associated with the relocation of a National Hockey League Team from one facility to another facility within the same standard metropolitan statistical area and the adaptation of the new facility to the playing of professional hockey. A qualifying project shall be owned by the state, a county, a city, a political subdivision, a public authority or public entity or otherwise as provided by law and shall be designed to attract out-of-state attendees and users.