The 2008 Class of Planning Grantees
blackhills Community soccer complex
Organization Description: The Blackhills Community Soccer Complex will serve the urban populations of Olympia and Tumwater, Thurston County and the greater areas of Thurston, Lewis, mason and Grays Harbor Counties. The primary and only function function of BHCSC is to provide safe and abundant soccer fields year-round to support recreational and competitive youth soccer.
Project Description: The Blackhills Community Soccer Complex will be a multi field soccer complex, consisting of 10 fields, 2 all-weather fields, irrigation, lights, a concession stand, restrooms, covered play shed and a lighted parking lot.
Concept plans: Click thumbnail to open pdf.
Testimonial: “First, thank you U.S. Soccer Foundation! We were extremely excited and honored to have been selected as a 2008 Planning Grant Receptient. Clough Harbour Sports came to our site and spent a great deal of time talking to our non-profit board about our vision for the community 40-acre youth soccer complex. They listened and provided ideas to us we had not considered. Clough Harbour drafted three designs based upon our criteria. The final design, cost estimates and phased construction approach is already helping us communicate our vision with potential funders and soccer families. The team who worked with us from Clough Harbour Sports were not only professional and proficient, they were friendly and responsive to our needs. Thank you again for the wonderful opportunity to advance the Blackhills Community Soccer Complex!”
FC HARLEM
Organization Description: FC Harlem serves the community of Harlem and the South Bronx with particular focus on the youth and young adults ranging from ages five through 20 years. FC Harlem will be a unique elite inner city soccer club program that focuses on the holistic development of the youth. FC Harlem’s mission is to use soccer and the positive values associated with team sports to empower communities and families by providing youth, particularly those “in need” with opportunities to become young L.I.O.N.S! (Leaders in Our Neighborhoods.)
Project Description: The FC Harlem project consists of one synthetic surfaced multi-purpose field area with youth soccer as its primary use. Amenities will/may include bleachers, lights and an equipment shed. The project is unique in that it will be one of the first spaces carved out of an existing Manhattan site, for the purpose of adding to the inventory of public outdoor athletic spaces in New York City in many years.
HEMPFLING PROPERTY
Organization Description: Hemfling Property located in Boone County intends to serve approximately 4,000 children and adults who play soccer in Boone County. The intent is to use the current fields around the county for practices, and the new complex for games.
Project Description: The Hempling Property located in Boone County, will consist of a 15-field soccer complex. There is great excitement for the gains that the project will bring. The facility will be used by Boone County Youth Soccer, Northern Kentucky United Soccer Club and the Northern County Soccer Association. There County hopes to hold soccer tournaments there as well.
hoosier sports foundation
Organization Description: The Hoosier Sports Foundation currently serves the City of Noblesville and the Northern Indianapolis Metropolitan Area, which include cities such as Carmel, Westfield, Fishers, Lawrence and Washington Township of Marion County. The HSF has also formed a strategic alliance with the Indiana Youth Soccer Association in which the HSF will offer a variety of leagues, clinics, camps coaching education and tournaments for the participants. The mission of HSF is to create a safe, dedicated, high quality amateur sporting venue for the positive personal development of the youth through education, sports and physical activity. The HSF strives to “Enrich Lives” through sports and to build “Kids with Character” by recognizing their dedication and achievements on and off the field.
Project Description: The project will be a public/private partnership between the Noblesville Parks and recreation Board and the Hoosier Sports Foundation. The soccer complex will be constructed on sixty acres of park-shared ground adjacent to a 184 acre City Park. The facility will include sixteen fields consisting of 115 x 75 yards. Of these, fourteen will be Blue Grass turf and two will be a synthetic grass surface with lights. The project will also include restrooms, concessions, comfort stations, and approximately 50 parking spaces per field.
Concept plans: Click thumbnail to open pdf.
monterey county futbol club
Organization Description: The purpose and aim of the Monterey County Futbol Club (MCFC) is to promote competitive and recreational levels of youth soccer in Monterey County, California. The Club shall do so by operating regular soccer leagues and competitive teams, and affiliating with the California Youth Soccer Association and/or other local, regional or nationwide organizations as may be involved in the promotion and operation of youth soccer competition. As part of our mission, the organization is also committed to developing the character, physical fitness and educational opportunities for youth in the community, especially for the underprivileged poor and high risk youth of our communities. MCFC currently serves over 350 competitive and 1,000 recreational soccer players, on the Monterey Peninsula in Salinas, Gonzales and King City. Many of the teams are subsidized, especially in East Salinas, where the Hispanic and Migrant farmworker population chiefly resides and where gang and youth violence run high. The service is for youth of both genders from ages five through eighteen years, and have recently added a semi-professional women’s team to the ranks. The organization has grown from five competitive teams in 2003 to over twenty-five teams in 2008. MCFC’s Board of Directors is very diversified and active in the community, and has been instrumental in several recent field development and outreach programs for soccer youth in these communities.
Project Description: First, the complex would contain five full size (dividable) fields located in proximity to two existing fields at Cal State Monterey Bay Campus. Longer term, MCFC would like to expand to a total of twenty fields that are closely integrated into the affordable housing developments planned after the Fort Ord Base closures in conjunction with the City of Seaside. Our central facility would include bathrooms, concessions, and classroom and storage space to create after school tutoring and training opportunities for youth and adults as well as a mini youth center that could be used for small gatherings and evening programs. Eventually, lockers, meeting rooms, and offices for the organization will be an integral part of the complex that will help facilitate partner development, corporate sponsorships, and operational needs.
Concept plans: Click thumbnail to open pdf.
Testimonial: “Clough Harbour Sports has been great to work with on the planning stages of our proposed project. The two staff we worked with provided several iterations of ideas concerning three separate properties being considered for our soccer complex and help sort through the layout, cost estimates and prioritization of the projects based on the feasibility of each project. The team was very responsive to our input and kept in contact with our leadership team in creating a final conceptual design for our grant submission to the U.S. Soccer Foundation. We very much appreciate the U.S. Soccer Foundation giving us the opportunity to work with Clough Harbour on our planning grant and look forward to moving forward with our fundraising and project implementation as quickly as possible.”
the salvation army metropolitan division
Organization Description: The Salvation Army Metropolitan Division is one of the oldest and most respected charitable organizations in the city of Chicago, having served the region since 1885. The purpose is to introduce the sport of soccer to the far south side of Chicago as a health enhancement and character building program for kids. The program will also function as a point of entry for low income families, allowing them to access the additional services that the Salvation Army has to offer them through the Ray and Joan Kroc Community Center. While people from all socio-economic backgrounds receive aid from the Salvation Army, we make a special commitment to the most vulnerable individuals and families – those with limited resources and the least access to services.
Project Description: Wthin the 200,000 sq. ft. Kroc Community Center, will be a 75,000 sq. ft. dedicated to a health club, field house and an aquatic center. The field house floor is a multipurpose floor, and one of the intended uses is for soccer training. The indoor field house will provide Chicago’s far south side with its first indoor/year round soccer facility. There will be 2 community bathrooms and 4 team locker rooms attached to these gyms. The 20 acres of outdoor recreational space will include a soccer/football/track competition stadium with synthetic turf, which will seat 2,500. The stadium will have outdoor lighting, press box, synthetic turf, bathroom facilities and concessions. There will also be 640 parking spaces to support the facility and outdoor fields. While soccer tournaments and games will be housed in the stadium, there will be two additional practice fields that can be used for soccer.
Concept plans: Click thumbnail to open pdf.
Testimonial: “In only two days, Clough Harbour Sports was able to rework our existing outdoor plans, ensuring a more efficient use of those spaces. They also provided us with a working diagram and a budget, allowing us to move forward in our planning process. Generations have been waiting for Soccer to come to the South Side of Chicago. Thank you for beginning to make such a dream a reality.”
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