Ayars & Ayars have proposed a new sports complex to be situated southeast of Park Boulevard and Van Dorn Street. The complex would consist of baseball and softball fields, along with buildings dedicated to baseball/softball, volleyball, wrestling, and swimming.
Unfortunately, the proposal will likely not come to fruition for many years, if ever. That's not a dig on Ayars & Ayars, or anybody else for that matter. It's just that lofty proposals for sports complexes around here tend to fizzle. But hey, I'm all for lofty dreams. I would love to see this complex happen.
One question that popped immediately to mind is how this complex jives with longstanding dreams of a sports complex north of the Haymarket. I hope the ideas are compatible, lest we wind up with an unproductive battle over which idea is more worthwhile.
You've got to give the planners credit for one thing: the location is excellent. It has easy access to Highway 2 and Highway 77, plus the Jamaica North trail. The land is out-of-the-way and not attractive for a lot of others uses. There aren't residential neighbors nearby to worry about. It's in a flood plain, but one that hasn't (to my knowledge) flooded very often. The biggest downside I can think of is that there's only one entrance/exit.
Who knows, maybe our kids (or our kids' kids) will one day play ball at Ayars Park.
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It is Ayars and Ayars
Bah! Thanks for that. Would you believe I even had their website open at the time and yet I still managed to type it wrong?
My next door neighbor worked for them and I spent several years seeing his pickup every time I left the house.
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