KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Kansas City is contemplating building a brand new facility to cater to youth sports.
Members of a metropolis council committee directed the town supervisor’s workplace to review the potential for creating an urban youth sports facility that might be able to internet hosting occasions and tournaments for hockey, determine skating, volleyball and various different sports.
“No such arena exists within our city for kids to do those types of activities so there’s a need for it. So we do have competitive clubs there’s a need for it. We do have competitive clubs in Kansas City proper,” Melissa Patterson Hazley mentioned in the course of the assembly on April 7.
The proposal contains building the ability within the metropolis’s third district. If the town strikes ahead with the plan college students in Kansas City Public Schools, Hickman Mills School District and constitution colleges in these areas can be granted precedence to make use of the ability.
“Hickman Mills and KCPS students also include the charter schools within its district boundaries. They play sports together. So, when I say KCPS is inclusive of all those within the boundaries and I know Hickman Mills is another school district that would benefit from access to these types of activities I’d like to build some just regular fun stuff into it like perhaps a cafe where parents can go and eat while their kids are playing in tournaments or practicing,” Patterson Hazley mentioned.
Patterson Hazley additionally pointed to the success of comparable arenas in different metro and regional cities.
“Some cities use these arenas as actually an economic driver and so this is an effort to diversify the types of projects that we have in the third,” Patterson Hazley mentioned.
Supporters of the concept additionally spoke on the committee assembly.
“We’re a big fan of this. We’d love to see something like this south of 75th east of 71 (Highway). The ice part especially. Let that drive it because that is important. Our kids deserve a childhood,” Taylor Maine, Hickman Mills United Neighborhoods, mentioned.
City council expects to listen to an replace on the potential for the concept earlier than the top of summer time.
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