SYRACUSE, N.Y. - St. Joseph's Health, the Syracuse-based healthcare system, has agreed to buy the naming rights to Onondaga County's waterfront amphitheater in a deal that will pay the county $750,000 over five years.

The amphitheater will be renamed the St. Joseph's Health Amphitheater at Lakeview.

Onondaga County legislators are expected to approve the name change when they meet Tuesday. The new name was revealed in the legislature's meeting agenda published today.

Revenue from the deal will be set aside to pay for maintenance and capital improvements at the amphitheater. The first expense will be new signs to display the new name.

"We're obviously excited about the naming rights sponsor,'' said Ryan McMahon, the legislature chairman. "It's a great corporate partner and a great corporate citizen. I'm ecstatic that St. Joseph's Health would do this.''

St. Joseph's naming rights contract will be with Live Nation, the concert promoter for the amphitheater. In addition to the county's portion, Live Nation will receive payment for the title rights. That sum has not been made public because it involves an agreement between private companies, McMahon said.

The county's share will be $750,000 over the five-year term. The amount escalates from $125,000 during the first year to $175,000 in the final year.

The venue formerly known as Lakeview Amphitheater is owned by the county and operated by the county's agent, SMG. Live Nation has exclusive rights to book events.

The amphitheater is heading into its third full season of concerts. Since the facility opened in 2015, Onondaga County officials have said they planned to make money by selling the naming rights, as they do with other county facilities.

The amphitheater has 22 concerts scheduled for this summer. It holds 17,500 people. In 2016, the amphitheater sold more than 200,000 tickets, according to Live Nation.

The naming rights fee for the amphitheater is comparable with what the county earns at other facilities. NBT Bank pays $140,000 a year for naming rights on the county-owned baseball stadium on Syracuse's north side. Wegmans pays $150,000 for the rights to sections of Onondaga Lake Park.

St. Joseph's Health traces its roots to 1869, when five nuns including Saint Marianne Cope transformed a dance hall and bar into a 15-bed hospital. Today the hospital has 451 beds and is part of a complex that includes a nursing college, a psychiatric emergency program and a physician's office building.

St. Joe's was taken over in 2015 by Trinity Health, a Michigan-based Catholic health system that operates more than 90 hospitals in 22 states.

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