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Discover Kalamazoo outlines plan for indoor youth sports complex funded by hotel assessment; hotel ratification required
Summary
Discover Kalamazoo presented a plan on Feb. 18 for an indoor youth sports complex financed by a 4% accommodations assessment under Public Act 340, a financing mechanism that requires mailed ratification ballots from hotels with 35 or more rooms.
Discover Kalamazoo presented a proposal to the Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners on Feb. 18 for a new indoor hard-court youth sports facility designed primarily for basketball and volleyball and intended to bring both local programming and tournament-generated hotel nights to the county.
Project proponents said the proposed facility would contain up to eight basketball courts (two stacked levels of four courts) convertible for volleyball or indoor turf, and that market analysis suggests the region lacks a state-of-the-art court facility. Discover Kalamazoo projected roughly 36,000 incremental hotel room nights annually, the creation of more than 600 full- and part-time jobs and an increase in hotel occupancy…
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