Rochester – After months of deliberation, it turns out to have been decided for the installation of $ 65 million in Rockster and Leisure.
The City Council will vote Monday on a proposed $5 million purchase of 160 acres of land in southeast Rochester, near Lowe’s and the Shoppes on Maine retail complex. The land sits northwest of the city’s Gamehaven Regional Park.
The sports complex is financed through the source of income of sales tax.
“The city has undertaken moderate diligence and in the in -depth negotiations to choose the optimal site for a sports and recreational complex in Rochester that meets the financing needs for the regional A report sent to the Rochester City Council.
“This resolution reflects a balanced technique that prioritizes equity, accessibility, economic has an effect on the prospective long -term progression while aligning with greater long -term objectives in the city’s scale matrix,” he added.
The proposed site, which in large part sits out of doors existing town borders, is a portion of farmland owned through Seneca Foods.
The report indicates that the location has the prospective for expansion and personal development, which can come with housing possibilities.
May will also be available thanks to a new trail provided between Gamehaven and 28th Street Southeast, Nigbur’s report notes.
The city has also tested two other locations for the sports complex, adding 107 acres of land on the former IBM campus and a 116-acre site outside the city’s northwest border gates. IBM’s former acquisition of the campus site for approximately $5. 4 million was deemed too beloved due to the additional expenses that would have been required to acquire. The northwest location was worth $2. 7 million, but it was considered less horny for the project.
“A key thing to settle on this site is its ability to equity and multimodal connectivity,” he wrote about the southeast location. “Located in a strategic domain that is recently experiencing investments with multimodal access, this site can be integrated with long -term transport networks and supply recreational opportunities in a unattended and traditionally unnecessated component of the community. “
The report to the council points to the anticipated need for added funding, however.
While city staff negotiated a $1.3 million reduction in the initially proposed purchase price, along with an added 10 acres, the plan being presented breaks construction into two phases with a request to seek added financial support for the second phase.
The first phase would be targeted on outdoor leisure, with the proposed creation of 8 softball and baseball fields, two football courts and 12 pickleball fields, as well as a eating place or a catering roomArray a playground and a dog park. It would come with other amenities, amenities and parking that can accommodate up to 800 vehicles.
The council report indicates that the phase for the moment would come with 8 shorts of multiple internal uses, an internal education and grass games area, a circle of activities of medium relatives and a track, among other comforts and additional parking lots.
“This technique guarantees that the complex becomes a regional raffle while serving as a center for network activity,” Nigbur wrote about the progression of progression with the outer part of the installation. “Operations and flexibility creation For long -term phases. “
The Municipal Council will vote on the factor on Monday at 6 p. m. Mondays. Meeting in the Chambers of the Council.