new KC Urban Youth Academy fields with an amazing view of the downtown skyline!
On January 23rd Kyle Vena of the Kansas City royals announced at the Klice Community Center that the original $14 million Kansas City Urban Youth Academy sports complex had received an additional 5 million summing up to 19 Million.
“The kids in your community are going to have a facility like no other, We want to make sure that this facility is about so much more than teaching kids how to throw from right field to second base on a line. We’re very lucky and fortunate to live in a city where people embrace a project like this.” Vena said on the new addition donations.
The facility is being constructed in two phases. the first includes two NCAA regulation baseball fields, a youth baseball field, and a softball field, each with synthetic turf. The youth baseball field is being installed with a 20-foot silver wall named the “Silver Monster.”
each field will have their own designated seating including movable bleachers that can hold up to 164 fans as well as other permanent seating arrangements that accommodate 420 patrons. Each field is also designated their own scoreboard as well as protective netting behind home-plate.
The second phase includes the construction of an indoor training facility that holds batting cages, a pitching mound, and “an exact replica of the infield at the K” according to David Bower, a Principal and Senior Project Manager at Populous.
“Not only can the major leaguers come over during the winter time – but kids can run through their drills on exactly the sized field that there is at the K.” -Bower
Both Phase I and Phase II of the Kansas City Urban Youth Academy are expected to be completed by the fall of 2017.
For the Rest of the article click on the picture above.
