320-acre Legacy Sports Park Planned for Mesa

By Jeff Metcalfe for The Arizona Republic  Mesa voters rejected a ballot proposal to build a youth sports megacomplex, so a private investment group is taking on an even grander project.  Legacy Cares, Inc., an Arizona based non-profit organization, closed last week with Ziegler, an investment bank, on $250M financing to build a family sports and entertainment complex in southeast Mesa.   […]

“Mesa Plays” Revives Sports Complex Push

By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Halloween has passed, but one project thought dead for more than a year has returned from the grave. Unlike typical zombies, however, this one is getting a warm welcome among some sectors of the Mesa and East Valley community. A steering and promotional committee called Mesa Plays, formed […]

Pima Plans 12 New Fields Near Kino Complex

By Murphy Woodhouse for Arizona Daily Star When it comes to local youth soccer, football and other long-field sports, participating in major tournaments often means hitting the road to Phoenix and other cities across the West with larger facilities. That also means that millions of dollars worth of spending — and the tax receipts it […]

Phx Rising Makes Case for MLS Expansion

By Ryan Clarke for Cronkite News In a dirt lot, trucks whir and beep, their sounds filling gaps in the sound of passing traffic. Construction is underway on a temporary soccer stadium for Phoenix Rising FC. The owners of the team hope that someday the sound is replaced with the roar of thousands of fans […]