Id love to have 10 or 12 youth complexes, he says.
Of course, like the pro sports boom, the youth sports complex binge has been paid for with public, not private, dollars -- because it appears the complexes themselves don't make money.
Father Pfleger at St . Sabina Churchs youth sports complex.
The youth baseball complex in Aberdeen, Md., that bears the Ripken family name is the ultimate playground for young players.
In New Brunswick, the new 15-acre Youth Sports Complex was reclaimed from a former brownfields site in the middle of the city.
The place on the river was called a youth living complex, the product of a classically harebrained Young Communist League scheme to ease a housing shortage.
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Among the first private developers to recognize the trend was the Walt Disney Company, which spent $100 million to turn 220 acres at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., into a youth sports complex that opened in 1997.
Many of the families in my little microcosm moved into their new homes in the youth living complex "Atom" and promptly quit their state jobs to join the new private sector.
Now, travel and tourism executives are counting on a $29 million youth sports complex under construction northwest of town to help fill Elizabethtown's 1,525 hotel rooms and drive development of hundreds more.
