Linn supervisors approve franchise for ballfield complex

A due site devise for a Prospect Meadows ballfield complex.

Linn County’s franchise agreement with Prospect Meadows got finished this morning.

Supervisors unanimously authorized a non-profit’s offer to lease 121 acres for a softball/baseball complex nearby a County Home Road-Highway 13 intersection north of Marion.

With a franchise agreement in hand, Prospect Meadows can find appropriation for a estimated $9.4 million facility. Plans call for 17 ball and softball diamonds, some with lighting and track seating, parking, and a building housing government offices, concessions, and other services.

A county-funded feasibility investigate found Prospect Meadows’ trickery could pull 120,000 people a year to tournaments as players and spectators, boosting a internal economy by $25 million.’

Prospect Meadows boss Jack Roeder pronounced a organisation will find substructure grants and private loans for a project. If that happens quickly, work could start this year, though there’s no construction  report yet.