The Sports Mega-Complexes Directory

Community and regional sports mega-complexes deliver a unique as a new form of gathering place.

The emergence of an all-new real estate asset class.

The sports mega-complexes directory is our attempt to start tracking a relative new industry – the first facility among this mega class opened in 1990, the National Sports Center in Blaine, Minnesota. Since then, more than one hundred of these facilities have been developed in the U.S. and worldwide.

Sports mega-complexes are sometimes oriented to youth sports tournaments, league play and travel teams. A great many of these facilities target the same sports and recreation purpose, but more for adult participation. The array of facilities include all indoor and all outdoor projects, and a mix of both indoor and outdoor. And some of these places also rely upon non-league participation of sole participants – for their own workouts and sports challenges. Our sports mega-complexes directory and guide to operators includes best-of-class examples of all these kinds of facilities.

Sports mega-complex facilities have taken a role in local economic development programs, given the sometimes substantial regional (recreation) sports revenues the facilities can generate. As an industry, total annual revenues generated by these mega-sport facilities now exceed what the National Football League (NFL) generates. And this kind of facility can act as anchor or fully occupy a shopping mall as a redevelopment schedule. The NISE Center in Niagara Falls (Cocov Destinations) is an example of such a sports-mega-complex anchoring a retail center redevelopment. An image of the repurposing project is shown below, and the shopping mall repurposing is include in our sports mega-complexes directory.

Shown here is conceptual view of the Niagara International Sports & Entertainment (NISE) Center in Niagara Falls.

Over the past decade, the scale of the sports mega-complex industry has created an opportunity for multi-property facility management companies to prosper. Some of the more prominent operators includes Sports Facilities Management, Fore Kicks Inc., Sports Force Parks, The St. James Group, and Spooky Nook Sports, among others. Each of these multi-site operators appear in our sports mega-complexes directory (below).

The Sports Mega-Complexes Directory & Operator Guide

Facility	Owner/Operator	Country	Opened
Adventure Crossing USA Jackson, New Jersey	Adventure Sports & Entertainment	U.S.	TBD
All Sports Village Windsor Locks, Connecticut	JABS Sports Management LLC	U.S.	TBD
Atlanta Sports City Stonecrest, Georgia	abandoned	U.S.	TBD
Colorado National Sports Park (Formerly the Rocky Mountain Sports Park) Windsor, Colorado	Colorado National Sports Park LLC	U.S.	TBD
Community First Champion Center Grand Chute, Wisconsin	Operated by Sports Facilities Management.	U.S.	TBD
Destination KP Kings Park (Long Island), New York To be developed at the site of a former sand mine.	Agape Community Sports Services Inc.	U.S.	TBD
Ethic Indoor Sports Facility New Berlin, Wisconsin Repurposing of Prospect Hill School, which has been vacant for 13 years.	Kahle Builders LLC	U.S.	TBD
Future Legends Windsor, Colorado	Operated by Sports Facilities Management.	U.S.	TBD
Gateway Soccer Complex Grandview, Missouri	PG LLC (owner/developer); Heartland Soccer Association (tenant).	U.S.	TBD
Jennings Sports Park at Evans Farms Orange Township, Delaware County, Ohio	Jennings Land Development	U.S.	TBD
Legacy Sports Park Mesa, Arizona 320-acre sports park featuring a soccer complex with 22 fields, baseball fields, track and field facilities, and much more.	Legacy Cares, Inc. and Legacy Sports USA	U.S.	TBD
Mega Sport Facility at Cary Towne Center Cary, North Carolina	Turnbridge Equities / Denali Properties.	U.S.	TBD
Mesa Del Sol Sports Complex Bernalillo County, New Mexico 180 acres	Bernalillo County	U.S.	TBD
Midway Central Station Bedford Park, Illinois	Operated by Sports Facilities Management.	U.S.	TBD
NISE Center Niagara Falls, New York	Cocov Destinations	U.S.	TBD
POWERPlex (Formerly the St. Louis Mills Mall) Hazelwood, Missouri	Big Sports Properties	U.S.	TBD
Rantoul Family Sports Complex Rantoul (Champaign County), Illinois A proposed 60+ acre mega-sport complex.	Village of Rantoul	U.S.	TBD
Sand Mountain Park Albertville, Alabama	Operated by Sports Facilities Management.	U.S.	TBD
Spokane Sportsplex Spokane, Washington	Spokane Public Facilities District	U.S.	TBD
Spooky Nook Champion Mill Hamilton, Ohio	Spooky Nook Sports	U.S.	TBD
The Bridge Bridgeport, West Virginia	Operated by Sports Facilities Management.	U.S.	TBD
Apex Sports Events Hillsborough, New Jersey	Operated by Sports Facilities Management.	U.S.	2020
Cedar Point Sports Center Sandusky, Ohio	Operated by Sports Facilities Management.	U.S.	2020
Etowah County Mega Sports Complex Gadsden, Alabama	Etowah County Mega Sports Complex Authority	U.S.	2020
Highlands Sports Complex Wheeling, West Virginia	Operated by Sports Facilities Management.	U.S.	2020
Horizons Edge Sports Campus Harrisonburg, Virginia	Operated by Sports Facilities Management.	U.S.	2020
Iowa West Sports Plex Council Bluffs, Iowa	Iowa West Foundation	U.S.	2020
Paradise Coast Sports Complex Naples, Florida	Sports Force Parks	U.S.	2020
Sand Mountain Park Albertville, Alabama	Operated by Sports Facilities Management.	U.S.	2020
Temple Mega Sports Complex Temple, Texas	Temple Economic Development Corp.	U.S.	2020
The St. James Lincolnshire, Illinois	The St. James Group	U.S.	2020
Wiregrass Sports Complex Wesley Chapel, Florida	RADDSports of Sarasota	U.S.	2020
FieldhouseUSA Auburn Auburn, Washington Situated in a repurposed former Sam's Club store.	Operated by FieldhouseUSA.	U.S.	2019
Panama City Beach Sports Complex Panama City Beach, Florida	Operated by Sports Facilities Management.	U.S.	2019
Ruston Sports Complex Ruston, Louisiana	City of Ruston	U.S.	2019
Sports Force Parks on the Mississippi Vicksburg, Mississippi	Sports Force Parks	U.S.	2019
Rocky Mount Event Center Rocky Mount, North Carolina	Operated by Sports Facilities Management.	U.S.	2018
Spooky Nook Sports LANCO Formerly LANCO Fieldhouse East Petersburg, Pennsylvania	Spooky Nook Sports	U.S.	2018
TBK Bank Sports Complex Bettendorf, Iowa	The BettPlex LLC	U.S.	2018
The St. James Springfield, Virginia	The St. James Group	U.S.	2018
FieldhouseUSA at Grapevine Mills Mall Grapevine, Texas	Operated by FieldhouseUSA.	U.S.	2017
Hoover Metropolitan Complex Hoover, Alabama	Operated by Sports Facilities Management.	U.S.	2017
Iowa West Field House Council Bluffs, Iowa	Operated by Omaha Sports Academy.	U.S.	2017
Sports Force Parks at Cedar Point Sandusky, Ohio	Sports Force Parks	U.S.	2017
Titan Sports & Performance Center Tulsa, Oklahoma	Titan Sports & Performance	U.S.	2017
Ballparks of America Branson, Missouri	Operated by Sports Facilities Management.	U.S.	2016
FieldhouseUSA Mansfield Mansfield, Texas	Operated by FieldhouseUSA, owned by City of Mansfield.	U.S.	2016
Seminole County Sports Complex Orlando, Florida	Seminole County	U.S.	2016
Youngsville Sports Complex Youngsville, Louisiana	City of Youngsville	U.S.	2016
Myrtle Beach Sports Center Myrtle Beach, South Carolina	Operated by Sports Facilities Management.	U.S.	2015
ForeKicks Indoor & Outdoor Complexes Taunton, Massachusetts	Fore Kicks Inc.	U.S.	2014
Grand Park Sports Campus Westfield, Indiana The 400-acre park features 26 baseball and softball diamonds, 31 multipurpose fields for soccer, football, and lacrosse.	City of Westfield	U.S.	2014
LakePoint Sports Atlanta metro 1,400 acres, featuring Terminus Wake Park, the largest wakeboarding park in the country.	LakePoint Sports, LLC	U.S.	2014
Rocky Top Sports World Gatlinburg, Tennessee	Operated by Sports Facilities Management.	U.S.	2014
Legacy Fields Sports Complex Tracy, California		U.S.	2013
Spooky Nook Lancaster Manheim, Pennsylvania The facility is situated within a repurposed Armstrong World Industries distribution center.	Spooky Nook Sports	U.S.	2013
Elizabethtown Sports Park Elizabethtown, Kentucky	Operated by Sports Facilities Management.	U.S.	2012
FieldhouseUSA Frisco Frisco, Texas	Operated by FieldhouseUSA.	U.S.	2009
New Mexico Tournament Soccer Complex Bernalillo County, New Mexico	City of Rio Rancho, NM	U.S.	2009
ForeKicks Outdoor & Indoor Sportsplex Marlborough, Massachusetts	Fore Kicks Inc.	U.S.	2008
ForeKicks Golf Course & Sports Complex Norfolk, Massachusetts	Fore Kicks Inc.	U.S.	2002
Aurora Sports Park Aurora, Colorado 200 acres	City of Aurora	U.S.	2000
All-American SportPark Las Vegas, Nevada	Urban Land of Nevada	U.S.	1998
Kino Sports Complex Tucson, Arizona	Operated by Pima County Stadium District.	U.S.	1998
ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex Orlando, Florida	Disney	U.S.	1997
New England Sports Center Marlborough, Massachusetts	New England Sports Management	U.S.	1994
National Sports Center Blaine, Minnesota	National Sports Center Foundation	U.S.	1990