A ceremonial groundbreaking event for the complex is set for 10 a.m. Sept. 18 at the project site and will include stakeholders. The event will be held at SH 114 and Cleveland Gibbs Road.
Attendees will be able to view the Texas Rangers’ 2023 World Series trophy at the event. The Rangers, who have played in Arlington since 1972, won their first World Series last year.
The details
The sports complex will have 122 acres of sports field, dining and retail space, Community Impact previously reported.
“We expect to be moving dirt within the next six weeks or so,” developer Dave Dickson, who represents Play It Forward Sports, which is overseeing the development, said in an email.
The venue will be built near Cleveland Gibbs Road and SH 114.
The plan for the complex includes fields for baseball, softball and soccer, Dickson said. However, soccer fields are multipurpose and will accommodate 7 versus 7 football, rugby, lacrosse and other sports. The Trophy Club Roanoke Youth Baseball Association will also be able to utilize fields, Dickson said.
Diving deeper
The venue will have more than 1,000 parking spaces, according to the company website. This complex will be the first of at least three complexes Play It Forward will construct across Texas in the next few years, Dickson said.
“This will be a year-round facility with state-of-the-art synthetic turf fields [and] multiple concessions that we can change out frequently,” Dickson said, adding there will be an on-site hotel with between 150-200 rooms as well as conference space.
He said the total project costs with all sports field and retail elements, and the hotel, will be “north of” $75 million.
“We anticipate being operational by this time next year,” Dickson said.
Dickson is the managing partner for 114 Development and is working on the project with business partner Blake Beavan, a former Major League Baseball pitcher and 2007 first-round pick of the Rangers.
