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The indoor sports and recreation
facility at Missouri Western State University that will serve as the
summer training camp home of the Kansas City Chiefs is now under
construction just west of Spratt Stadium.
The facility will include a full-size
indoor football field, a locker room, weight room, training room,
coaches’ offices, meeting rooms and a lecture hall. The Chiefs will use
the facility for three weeks during their training camp every summer;
for the remaining 49 weeks of the year, Western and the St. Joseph
community will enjoy outstanding recreational opportunities in the new
building.
The Chiefs are donating money to help
build the facility and other needed improvements. They will hold their
summer training camp at Western for at least five years, beginning in
July 2010. The city of St. Joseph, Buchanan County and private donors
are also helping pay the cost.
The construction of the facility has
forced Western to close several recreational facilities, including the
wood-chip walking trail. Please click on
Advisories to view this important information.
Check this site often to see the
progress of construction.
Architect: Jeff Ellison, Ellison-Auxier Architects Inc.
Contractor: Crossland Construction Co. Inc.
Contract start: July 1, 2009
Contract completion: July 5, 2010
Contract amount: $10,297,000
Total square footage: 118,000 s.f.
