Ellensburg Fieldhouse Project (003)

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II. Project Overview 1. Project Description Provide a detailed description of the infrastructure project, including its purpose, scope, location, and anticipated impact on tourism. Include visuals or plans if available. The Ellensburg Fieldhouse project is an indoor recreation facility that will be approximately 60,000 square feet in size. The facility will be located in the southeast corner of Rotary Park, a City of Ellensburg owned park facility. As a part of the fieldhouse construction, a large parking lot will be constructed that not only serves fieldhouse activities but also events and activities taking place at the Rotary Park athletic fields. As planned, the fieldhouse buildingwill be a prefabricated steel frame building that will consist primarily of sport courts and a synthetic turf area. The sport court area will make up the majority of the building and will include up to five full sized basketball courts (84'x50'), the basketball courts will also include court lines for volleyball and pickleball. The synthetic turf area will be approximately 14,400 square feet and will be able to accommodate training for sports such as football, rugby, soccer, softball, and baseball. A fitness track will circle the perimeter of the building, providing a safe and dry place for people to walk or run year-round. The building will also include a multipurpose room that could be rented for parties, offices for City of Ellensburg parks and recreation department staff and spectator viewing areas. The Ellenburg fieldhouse will have significant sports tourism impact. A facility of this size and scope will benefit local tourism in a variety of ways. The additional parking will support events taking place at the Rotary Park athletic fields. With the current Rotary Park parking lot capacity, there cannot be more than one large activity taking place at the park at the same time. Because of this, the community is losing out on additional tournaments opportunities throughout the year, specifically during the fall. The fieldhouse building will provide a one -of -a -kind facility in Central Washington, creating the opportunity to host club volleyball tournaments as well as AAU basketball tournaments. There are two AAU tournaments currently operated in Ellensburg; however the event organizers cap the number of tournaments they can run per year, plus limit the number of teams that can enter the tournament due to gym availability in Ellensburg. By adding five courts, event organizers will have the opportunity to increase the number of tournaments offered in Ellensburg as well as the increase the number of teams that can participate. Layout of the sport courts will create up to 10 additional volleyball courts at the fieldhouse. Currently, there are no youth volleyball tournaments held in Ellensburg,