Work is progressing on compiling data and a business plan for a possible sports complex project in Junction City/Geary County.

Eddie Reeder, Sports Complex Project Manager, has been studying other sports facilities and how they function. “What the projected revenues or expenditures are going to be for a facility the size that we’re wanting to create, also looking a lot at the economic impact of it and what that’s going to bring to our hotels and restaurants and retail shops, and gas stations…the next step is to look at how are we going to fund it; the numbers do indicate that if a facility was built it would be self-sustaining, it would be successful.”

Different land sites have been explored but no final decisions have been made.

“We’ve also been out in the community talking with different land owners, and we’ve even communicated with the high school and the possibilities of a new high school and maybe some partnerships in that area – all preliminary conversation, nothing set in stone – but we’re working hard toward that,” said Dennis Beson, Chamber of Commerce CEO.

Beson said that sometimes people are scared of new projects in a pressed economy.

“The big thing we’ve been looking at since the beginning of the Sports Complex talk is not raising any taxes for this particular project…so that’s one of the things we’re very focused on, to try to even find out the feasibility, can we even do this,” said Beson.

No final decisions on any project have been made at this point.