pushed back<\/a>. In addition to fundraising time, Corle expects the design-build process to take six months, followed by construction taking nine months.<\/p>\nThe planned 150,000-square-foot facility, to be built near the east end of the Midland Soccer Club property, will serve as the home for the club’s Fusion Women semiprofessional team, but will also welcome other sports including football, lacrosse, baseball and softball.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201c(For) anyone within an hour-plus zone, this will be the largest facility of its kind,\u201d\u00a0Corle said. \u201cThis is for the Great Lakes Bay Region. It is intended to be for the benefit of all the communities, not just soccer.\u201d<\/p>\n
The total cost will end up being a little more than $10 million, and the facility will be comparable to the Legacy Center sports complex in\u00a0Brighton, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s other ways that it can be designed to have a less permanent structure, but as we looked at it, between the economics as well as the safety, we really want to make sure that the structure was able to stand for years to come, and that anyone that\u2019s in the building is always in a very safe condition,\u201d Corle said.<\/p>\n
Access to an indoor training facility will be hugely beneficial for the soccer club, said Grace\u00a0Sczepanski of the Fusion Women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing able to train consistently, even during the winter, is something that will help a lot of players develop,\u201d Sczepanski said. \u201cBefore, we had used the Auburn Dome or Northwood, and that would be really inconvenient and pretty expensive, so having a space of our own (will make) things a lot easier and more accessible for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fusion Families honorary chairs Phil and Jessica Rausch gave the event\u2019s keynote speech, with Jessica Rausch telling the Daily News that the couple\u2019s support for the project came from their children\u2019s experiences playing the sport.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve got two young soccer players, so, it’s a game that we all love. It’s a game that we’ve loved watching them grow as athletes, as teammates,\u201d Rausch said. \u201cIt’s such an anchor organization in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Midland Soccer Club is close to reaching its $10 million fundraising goal to make an indoor sports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,157898,157899,561,82],"class_list":["post-548944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news-local","tag-pubnow","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}