By Aimee Brandon Posted October 15, 2014
Progress is being made on the Winnemucca Boys and Girls Club and Recreational Complex as it is currently beginning Phase One, Land Development.
The vision for the complex is to “improve the quality of life for our residents by providing youth development services, recreational opportunities, health enhancement services, and community development through facilities and programs that build a healthier spirit, mind, and body for all individuals regardless of ability to pay,” said the website for the project, winnemuccareccomplex.com.
As planned the construction of utilities and land leveling will begin this October.
“The initial bid was opened yesterday September 30, by the City of Winnemucca it was awarded to Honeywell Construction so we will actually start the phase of land leveling and utilities and so on hopefully as soon as next week,” said Lowry Principal Ray Parks.
They predict phase one will be completed summer of 2015.
“Phase one is a multi-use field, restrooms, parking lots, roads, utilities, as far as power sewer and water for the future boys and girls club and recreation center the actual use of that facility was trying to get summer of 2015 with a goal of having a youth soccer tournament here to kind of kick it off next summer,” said Parks.
The multi-purpose field will allow Lowry
sports team to have more space and nicer facilities for practice and games.
“There will be regulation adult-sized fields so we can start using them as practice fields and we can use them as game fields if we want to get to the point that we are playing on a regulation legal-sized game field we also hope to start hosting regional soccer events here so instead of division 1A all going to Reno they can all come here. Same thing we’re going to try to start bringing in the smaller division soccer tournaments as well. So that there’s a chance that we host regional soccer and boys and girls varsity sports,” said Parks
While funding for phase one is secured, there will be a vote on this year’s county ballet concerning raising sales tax to be used for recreation. It is question two on the ballad and if you wish to support the recreation center you will vote yes.
“The cost of this project is $9,570,000 which includes land acquisition, multi-use fields, boys and Girls Club, and Rec Center,” says the website.
