It’s a “slam dunk” for those in Edmond, Oklahoma City and beyond, as plans for the new $15 million sports complex are revealed.
The multi-million dollar Summit Sports and Ice Complex will have eight basketball courts, 16 volleyball courts, two indoor soccer fields and many other recreational activities.
Totaling over 155,000 square feet, the sports complex will possess the resources to be able to focus on three sports simultaneously.
Collaboration between Sold Out Strategies and Turner Real Estate Company will help provide Oklahoma City with one of the most elite and influential recreational facilities from Dallas to Wichita Kans.
Brad Lund, a partner with Sold Out Strategies, the Sports Marketing firm that is the management group for the complex, believes it to be one of the most impactful facilities to grace the Oklahoma City area.
“The Summit will be a first class, beautiful facility; it will be for all walks of life,” Lund said. “It is not only for the elite athletes. We will have the ability to serve the recreational player to the tournament weekend player, all the way to the elite Division I athlete.”
Some believe this project is well-timed since the closest facilities to be considered on par with Summit are in Frisco and Carrollton, Texas.
“Three years ago, Davis Hudiburg … put himself together with Derek Turner of the Turner Company, which is a well-respected developer out of Edmond,” Lund said. “They began running the numbers and looking for a location in Edmond, in which they found out that the city of Edmond, along with some other private developers, were looking at the I-35 and Covell destination intersection.”
The economic benefits of the Summit will affect not only the city of Edmond but the Oklahoma City metro area as well.
“It is going to have a significant economic impact,” Lund said. “We suggest approximately 500 participants per day and on weekends as many as 1,800 per day. With these facilities, if you count spectators and parents with aunts and uncles, it can easily have traffic flow of 300,000 annually,” Lund said.
Lund continued to elaborate on the idea that the facility’s impact could stretch beyond Oklahoma City.
“It will not only benefit people that live in Edmond and Oklahoma City, but it is a regional facility, which means that teams from Wichita Falls, Texas; Wichita, Kans.; and Tulsa, Okla. can play in this facility for specialized weekends and tournaments,” Lund said.
One of the many aspects of The Summit Sports and Ice Complex is the influential vision of Hudiburg, managing partner for The Summit Sports and Ice Complex.
“This was a passion of Davis’s coming out of college,” Derek Turner, president of the Turner Real Estate Company in Edmond, said. “He was an AAU [Amateur Athletic Union] basketball player to start with, also a Heritage Hall kid and he participated in AAU basketball for years.”
The sports complex will have the ability to be versatile depending on the activity that will be going on.
“Many of the facilities are only one giant room, and if you want to play multiple sports in there you would have to change up the equipment, from basketball to volleyball,” Turner said. “They would have to switch the whole complex to that one specific sport.”
Students accustomed to larger and more diverse sports facilities have noticed the shortage of these facilities in the Oklahoma City area.
“Coming from high school athletics … I saw [there] was a lack of diversity amongst sports in a tournament facility,” Daniel Mullican, freshman from Dallas said. “When recreational season comes around, there are many different sports happening at the same time and sometimes to participate in these sports you would have to go to multiple venues, which proves to be a hassle and inconvenience.”
With that idea in mind, The Summit Sports and Ice Complex will be able to remedy those situations.
“In order to do tournaments we needed two soccer fields, so we put two in and took our basketball and volleyball and split them into two rooms,” Turner said. “One room will accommodate four full-size basketball courts but could be converted to eight volleyball courts also.”
Turner went on to describe more of the features of the facility.
“The other room has eight volleyball courts and could be converted to four basketball courts,” Tuner said. “So we could have league play for basketball, volleyball and soccer all at the same time in three different rooms. The noise is controlled and your whistles and balls are controlled separately.”
The Summit Sports and Ice Complex will be constructed in the northeast part of Covell and I-35 by the summer of 2015.
“The Summit Sports Complex will be a very unique and one-of-a-kind facility, you will no longer need to go to Dallas or Kansas City to find a facility of this nature, and it will provide entertainment and recreational activities for thousands of kids,” Turner said.
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