Work continues to try and develop a new sports complex in Junction City.

One member of a committee working on the project, Brian Field, provided information this week.

–A local architect is working on a plan, and hopeful will be ready in a few weeks.

 

–Cost estimates could then be determined. The committee is costing the project more locally in an effort to lower the price on the facility.

–A four baseball / softball field and four soccer field facility is now being pursued, instead of a complex with eight baseball / softball and eight soccer fields. The complex would be built to allow for future growth.

–Two sites ( not yet named ) are under consideration as a site for the sports complex. They hope to have the final site locked down in the next 60 days.

–Part of the fields will have artificial turf, and part of them will have natural grass. Field added, “We want to have the play ability of the turf, but we also want to have the option for people to have grass, especially for soccer, which seems to be the preference as far as the turf for that sport.”

–Among the local committee members spear heading this project include Brian Field, Ben Bennett, Brett Deam, Ty Arneson, Cecil Aska, Clint Francis, and Michelle Stimatze.