{"id":199110,"date":"2026-05-21T18:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199110\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:51:15","slug":"erie-sports-commission-awards-facility-matching-funds-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199110\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Sports Commission Awards Facility Matching Funds Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/talkerie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Untitled-May-21-2026-at-13.29.11-3.png\" data-caption=\"Around The Post. Photo Credit: Erie Sports Commission.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Untitled-May-21-2026-at-13.29.11-3-640x427.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Untitled - May 21, 2026 at 13.29.11 (3)\"\/><\/a>Around The Post. Photo Credit: Erie Sports Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The Erie Sports Commission awards $75,000 to 12 organizations in Erie County.<\/p>\n<p>The Erie Sports Commission announced today the recipients of its 2026 Facility Matching Funds Grant Program, awarding $75,000 to 12 organizations, including the largest grant in the organization\u2019s history to the Denny Lowes Complex in North East.<\/p>\n<p>The successful applicants include:\u00a0Around the Post, $1,500 for the purchase of a court sweeper;\u00a0Booker T. Washington Center, $3,000 to support the repair of water-damaged areas of the gym floor, re-coat the entire surface and to reline the court;\u00a0Critter Path Sporting Clays, $3,000 to enhance the second half of the trail system to host the 2026 PA State Sporting Clays Tournament;\u00a0Denny Lowes Complex, $35,000 to support the multi-phase renovation;\u00a0Edinboro McKean VFW, $1,000 for infield redressing at the baseball\/softball fields;\u00a0Erie Rugby, $2,000 for the purchase of rugby posts;\u00a0FLAG Little League Complex, $5,000 to support construction of new batting cages;\u00a0Lake Shore BMX, $2,500 to support paving the rear of the starting hill and upgrading facility lighting to LED;\u00a0Lampe Courtesy Dock, $10,000 to support the purchase of a new courtesy dock with lightning and ADA accessibility;\u00a0Presque Isle Pickleball, $5,000 to support party room conversion to spectator viewing area;\u00a0Sinai Sports, $2,000 for the purchase of obstacles, mats and truss components;\u00a0Westwood Racquet Club, $5,000 to support renovations to the second floor that increase spectator capacity and improve viewing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccess to updated, well-maintained facilities is essential for the continued success of sports tourism in Erie County,\u201d said Ben Huggler, interim executive director of the Erie Sports Commission. \u201cEach of these projects improves a facility that plays an important part in our community, while helping Erie County remain a competitive destination for sports tourism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around The Post. Photo Credit: Erie Sports Commission. The Erie Sports Commission awards $75,000 to 12 organizations in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-199110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}