Andy Card, a father of a high school basketball player was in his favorite restaurant after his son’s game when he drew an idea for his sports facility on a napkin. He traveled across the country for his son’s games that were often in gyms without any air conditioning, which were paid for out of the athletes’ and their parent’s pockets. After attending another game in the same terrible condition, he decided to build his own youth sports facility.
Card is an entrepreneur who steered trucking and pizza companies. He decided to sell both, and after 2 years, he raised roughly nine million dollars to build an indoor basketball facility in Grand Park Sports Campus, a 400-acre sports complex. Many companies and entrepreneurs rushed there to invest.
According to some, nearly 60% of the country’s youth population plays an organized sport. Families from around the world pay a collective average of 30 billion dollars yearly for their kid’s sports.
Additionally, less than a half-hour drive from Grand Park, two small towns, Lebanon and Whitestown — have announced plans to build their own complexes, projects that will cost more than one hundred million dollars each and can create more facilities that kids can train and play games in.
According to The Washington Post, “Card is no longer sketching dreams onto napkins. He now has plans to build and operate more than a dozen youth sports complexes across the country.”
However, community leaders believe that the Grand Park must evolve or be left behind by an industry that has become more competitive.
Unfortunately, according to Matt Trnian, the director of the Grand Park Complex, “It is only becoming more expensive to run the place with rising costs because of inflation. Land and facility costs have only risen, and it would cost nearly double to build Grand Park today.”
With these new sports facilities, families will no longer have to worry about paying for games and standing in a hot and sweaty gym with no air conditioning.
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Card is an entrepreneur who steered trucking and pizza companies. He decided to sell both, and after 2 years, he raised roughly nine million dollars to build an indoor basketball facility in Grand Park Sports Campus, a 400-acre sports complex. Many companies and entrepreneurs rushed there to invest.
According to some, nearly 60% of the country’s youth population plays an organized sport. Families from around the world pay a collective average of 30 billion dollars yearly for their kid’s sports.
Additionally, less than a half-hour drive from Grand Park, two small towns, Lebanon and Whitestown — have announced plans to build their own complexes, projects that will cost more than one hundred million dollars each and can create more facilities that kids can train and play games in.
According to The Washington Post, “Card is no longer sketching dreams onto napkins. He now has plans to build and operate more than a dozen youth sports complexes across the country.”
However, community leaders believe that the Grand Park must evolve or be left behind by an industry that has become more competitive.
Unfortunately, according to Matt Trnian, the director of the Grand Park Complex, “It is only becoming more expensive to run the place with rising costs because of inflation. Land and facility costs have only risen, and it would cost nearly double to build Grand Park today.”
With these new sports facilities, families will no longer have to worry about paying for games and standing in a hot and sweaty gym with no air conditioning.
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