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Discover Kalamazoo pitches hotel-tax-funded indoor sports complex in City of Kalamazoo
Summary
Discover Kalamazoo presented a plan for a hotel‑assessment‑funded indoor sports complex in the Westgate area of the City of Kalamazoo, saying the facility could attract tournaments and off‑season hotel stays while prioritizing weekday access for local youth.
Discover Kalamazoo on Monday presented a plan for a regional indoor sports complex to the Kalamazoo City Commission, saying the project would be financed by an incremental 4% accommodations assessment the county’s hoteliers recently approved.
The proposal, presented by Jane Ghosh, chief executive officer of Discover Kalamazoo, calls for a multi‑court indoor facility—eight basketball courts that could convert to 16 volleyball courts, additional indoor turf space, about 900 parking stalls and a roughly 15‑acre site—intended to attract tournaments within a three‑hour drive and to generate hotel room nights in off‑season periods.
Ghosh said the financing mechanism is the Event Center Financing Act of 2020 and that the county referendum to allow an incremental 4% assessment passed among eligible hotel owners with roughly 82% voting yes. "The hotels themselves voted to impose this incremental 4% assessment to finance the facility," she said.
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