Douglas County will quickly be residence to a brand new mega-sport complicated, bringing to the county a number of areas for kids and adults alike to maneuver.
On March 18, the commissioners of Douglas County introduced the plans for the development of the sports activities complicated, known as Zebulon after the Western explorer Zebulon Pike. The commissioners voted unanimously to conclude a partnership with Sterling Ranch Improvement Firm to construct the complicated.
Zebulon will probably be situated in Sterling Ranch, close to the intersection between Ward Street and Wateron Street.
“Zebulon would be the catalyst that transforms an space of our county that was primarily industrial – even at residence at a former dynamite manufacturing unit – in a regional attraction for households and corporations,” stated Commissioner George Teal.
The ability will embrace areas for basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, soccer, soccer and hockey. The complicated may also preserve over 400 acres of open house within the surrounding space.
“That is such an attention-grabbing second,” stated Commissioner Abe Laydon. “We’re within the golden age of Douglas County, the place we will begin transferring on what our residents need a regional sports activities unit, related to steady efforts to maintain the house open.”
The financing for the primary section of the complicated will come from a gross sales charge authorized by voters for parks. The extra financing for the longer term phases of the complicated will come from financing the rise of taxes.
“Our voters and taxpayers have been ready for us to take measures and make investments this financing authorized by the voters,” stated Commissioner Kevin Van Winkle. “It’s time to begin placing meat on the bones and dealing with our companions to convey our neighborhood imaginative and prescient to life.”
Along with the partnership with Sterling Ranch Improvement Firm, the partnership may also embrace the Group Authority Council Sterling Ranch and KT Improvement.
The primary section of Zebulon will embrace an inside sports activities complicated with three rink and basketball fields, a soccer complicated and a baseball complicated. The design for the constructing is at the moment nonetheless in its first section.
In April, Douglas County will host a dwell city corridor to debate Zebulon and different open areas and spatial initiatives. The date for this city corridor has not been introduced from the press time.