Work on a feasibility study for a proposed sports complex in Junction City will begin Thursday.

The Geary County Convention and Visitors Bureau Advisory Committee set a goal at the end of last year to get the proposed project off the ground last year according to the advisory committees chair, Adam Wilkey. ” Our number one goal that we set as a committee was to get this project somewhat off of the ground. Whether or not it could get done or what not,” Wilkey said.

Sport Facilities Advisory, a Florida based company, was hired to conduct the feasibility study for the project. Two SFA representatives are scheduled to arrive in Junction City Wednesday night. “They will be here for the next couple of days and we will be looking forward to actually sitting down with them and actually giving them a physical market tour of not only of Junction City but the surrounding areas.”

Wilkey hopes that SFA will be able to give the CVB an idea of good locations for the complex,”In our tours we will be looking at some potential sites. That’s sort of where their expertise comes in as well because they will have a better feel of what kind of acreage we will need and such.”

Wilkey believes that a potential location should be somewhere near the I-70 corridor,” Obviously the thought is you want to have some visibility from I-70. I think that’s what attracts the big tournaments, I think just the convenience and the location. I think we’ve got to utilize that corridor.”

The feasibility study is expected to take between two and three months to complete.