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BY DON MUNSCH
Roanoke Sports Complex to o er 122 acres of sports eld, dining, retail space
Construction will begin soon on the Roanoke Sports Complex, a new multisports facility. A ceremonial groundbreaking event for the complex is set for 10 a.m. Sept. 18 at the project site and will include stakeholders. The event will be held at SH 114 and Cleveland Gibbs Road. Attendees will be able to view the Texas Rang- ers’ 2023 World Series trophy at the event. The details The sports complex will have 122 acres of sports eld, dining and retail space. Developer Dave Dickson, who represents Play It Forward Sports, which is overseeing the devel- opment, said dirt should move on the site shortly after the groundbreaking. The venue will be built near Cleveland Gibbs Road and SH 114.
The plan for the complex includes elds for baseball, softball and soccer, Dickson said. How- ever, the soccer elds are multipurpose and will accommodate 7 versus 7 football, rugby, lacrosse and other sports. The Trophy Club Roanoke Youth Baseball Association will also be able to utilize elds, Dickson said. Diving deeper The venue will have more than 1,000 parking spaces, according to the company website. This complex will be the rst of at least three com- plexes Play It Forward will construct across Texas in the next few years, Dickson said. “This will be a year-round facility with state- of-the-art synthetic turf elds [and] multiple concessions that we can change out frequently,” Dickson said, adding there will be an on-site hotel
The Roanoke Sports Complex will be situated next to a retail component and a hotel.
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with conference space. He said the total project costs with all sports eld and retail elements, and the hotel, will be “north of” $75 million. Dickson is working on the project with business partner Blake Beavan, a former Major League Baseball pitcher. “We anticipate being operational by this time next year,” Dickson said.
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