Mooresville NC the town known as "Race City USA" now has a sister name "Baseball Town."
A big collection of Iredell County and Mooresville town officials, along with local business leaders, announced that America's Park, touted to be the world's largest youth baseball and softball complex, will be built in northern Mooresville off Rankin Hill Road just west of I-77.
America's Park and will feature 25 lighted ballfields, 60 cabins, a laundry facility, dining hall and concession stands as well as parking on 111 acres of the 170-acre site. The remainder, for now, will be used as unpaved overflow parking. Hines and Presutti intend for America's Park to be positioned to take advantage of a growing youth sports industry, with tens of thousands of "travel ball" teams in a variety of age groups looking for tournaments - and places - to play.
The design of America's Park calls for five, four-field clusters of fields in the classic pinwheel design, one two-field grouping, two other single fields plus a stadium field. America's Park is scheduled to be open in time for the 2012 travel ball season.
They estimate 80,000 visitors each year will spend multiple nights in hotels from Mooresville to northern Mecklenburg County and dine in local restaurants and shop at local stores to the tune of $33 million in direct spending. Apply the 2.5 multiplier to that figure as economists are wont to do - meaning each new dollar is spent 2-and-one-half more times once it is infused into the local economy - and the total economic impact is $82.5 million.
Not bad for more than 100 acres that contains no massive building, creates no product and sells only concessions and memories.
Town officials have just hit a Grand Slam for the Mooresville and Lake Norman region.
Mike Carpino
Broker/Owner
Lake And Town Realty
Mike@LakeAndTown.com
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