Lulu’s Place
City: Los Angeles
Cost: $150 million
Architects: Rios Architecture
General contractor: DPR Construction
What’s in store: The 31-acre site in the Westchester area, just north of Los Angeles International Airport, will include tennis courts, soccer fields, basketball courts, volleyball courts and a learning lab. The project is funded entirely by philanthropic donations from the United States Tennis Association, the USTA Foundation, Tiger Woods’ TGR Foundation, Ballmer Group, Jersey Mike’s, LA84 Foundation, The Walt Disney Co., and others. LA World Airports has approved a 50-year lease to the nonprofit Lulu’s Place for the property, and Lincoln Property Co. is overseeing the project’s development.
The Land, Saraland Sports and Recreation Complex
City: Saraland, Ala.
Cost: $72 million
Architects: Chambless King Architects
Operator: KemperSports Venues
General contractor: HPM/Rabren
What’s in store: The 100-acre development includes eight baseball/softball diamonds, including a 350-foot MLB-sized field that opened March 8 for the Saraland youth baseball and softball leagues. The indoor venue scheduled to open late this year will have four basketball courts and eight volleyball courts. There will also be outdoor pickleball and tennis courts. The outdoor multisport fields are scheduled to open in 2026.
Crossroads Sports Complex
City: New Lenox, Ill.
Cost: $70 million
Architects: JLG Architects; Sports Facilities Companies
General contractor: Northern Builders
What’s in store: The 100-acre development 45 minutes southwest of Chicago will feature the “largest collection of multipurpose synthetic turf outdoor fields for tournaments and local events in the Midwest,” according to Sports Facilities Companies, the venue’s operator. The complex will include 29 baseball and softball fields; 12 multiuse fields; a 140,000-square-foot, multisport field house; batting cages; a beer garden; and more than 10 acres earmarked for restaurant, retail and/or hotel use.
Scheels Sports Park at Legacy Pointe
City: Springfield, Ill.
Cost: $67 million
Architect and general contractor: Mammoth Sports Construction
What’s in store: The complex, which has a naming-rights deal with Fargo, N.D.-based sporting goods store Scheels, includes the Springfield Clinic Dome, a 190,000-square-foot indoor multisport venue that includes a synthetic turf field and stadium seating. Springfield Clinic, one of the largest multispecialty medical groups in Illinois, has the naming rights to the building. The outdoor facilities will include six lighted multiuse turf fields and two full-size football fields. A 91-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott is scheduled to open this summer as part of the development surrounding the 277-acre mixed-use site.
