As youth sports exploded into a multi-billion dollar industry, communities are building sprawling sports complexes to attract teams, tournaments – and revenues.
the finance committee members. “So not even talking about depreciation of $2.9 million … it is not making money. And that’s okay, but this is for the taxpayers to understand: that Grand Park does not make money.”
On a Thursday morning in early July, Grand Park was buzzing: High school baseball teams from across the country competed on several diamonds, with kids and their parents mingling at concession stands between games. A golf cart wove through the visitors, with the driver, Grand Park director Matt Trnian, waving to patrons.Eight years ago, when Grand Park opened, Trnian was cleaning these golf carts as an intern.
When Card announced plans for the new field house in Lebanon in October, the moment promised to bring further momentum to the second-fastest-growing county in Indiana.For years, Lebanon’s leaders had pondered what to do with an old 95-acre lot off Interstate 65 — it had once considered an RV park and a shopping mall.
“We want to make this a place people want to come to. … When we started to do feasibility studies and run the numbers, what really started to come to us is that the best we could do for the community is invest in youth sports,” said the town’s council president, Clinton Bohm.
Unlike Grand Park, where about two dozen employees run the campus, Card’s company handles operations at each of his facilities, aiming to host high-profile tournaments and provide programming for local athletes who might not compete on traveling teams. He calls his operations the company’s “secret sauce”; it’s what has enabled him to win contracts to build massive facilities in Las Vegas, Jacksonville and Lebanon, he said, while aiming to provide smaller complexes across Indiana.
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