Sports complex plans under review by P
&
amp;R commisioners
The Parks and Recreation Commission is considering who should run the outdoor sports complex planned for Condit Road north of the Aquatics Center and will discuss it tonight.
Two organizations, the local Coliseum and Big League Dreams from Southern California, have presented plans.
The complex would be built on the site of the soccer complex, which will move next to Sobrato High School in a year or two.
At the PRC’s Oct. 19 meeting the conceptual plan for the sports complex and phase one – keeping within the $2.4 million budget – were approved. The final decision will be up to the City Council.
Recreation Manager Julie Spier said that, as with the indoor recreation center and, before that, the community center, the choices are for the city to operate the center itself or to enter into a public/private partnership.
At the Sept. 21 meeting representatives from The Coliseum and Big League Dreams presented their proposals for such partnerships. The Coliseum is a largely local group planning to build an indoor sports center that, they say, will complement, but not compete with the city’s center planned for West Edmundson Avenue next to Community Park.
The Coliseum’s Doug Payne offered to provide $2 million in additional capital in addition to the land-lease that could cover operations and maintenance of the outdoor fields. They also plan a $10-$12 million, 110,000-square-foot building built in two phases, with volleyball, basketball, weight and cardio areas in phase one and rock climbing and a skate park in phase two.
Coliseum parking would be shared with the sports center; The Coliseum would charge $125 per year or a drop-in fee of $10.
Programming would target adults during the week and youth tournament and league play on weekends.
Big League Dreams, based in Southern California, has built sports fields near Riverside, in Cathedral City, Chino Hills and in Redding. The group constructs recreation league baseball and softball fields based on Major League Baseball stadium themes. They showed a video of their fields and operations at the Sept. 19 meeting.
wwwmhcoliseum.com/ www.bigleaguedreams.com
PRC meets 7pm tonight in Council Chambers at City Hall, 17555 Peak Ave.
