The city of North Charleston held a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week celebrating the grand opening of the new $25 million North Charleston Sports Complex.
The complex will include a 25-meter pool, a 6-goal basketball gym, tennis and pickleball courts, a multipurpose field, a roller rink, a walking trail and more.
There will be a fee to use the swimming pool, but the rest of the amenities are free to the public, and officials with the city say they’re excited for residents to take advantage of the new facility.
Thiel College — an Independent college in Greenville, Penn. — is upgrading its stadium with a $550,000 project this summer, including $20,000 from Mercer County.
County commissioners awarded $20,000 for the project to improve the turf playing surface at the college’s Stoeber Field. The money will come from Mercer County’s Act 13 Unconventional Gas Well Fund, which comes from state fees from energy companies that drill with hydraulic fracturing in Pennsylvania.
Thiel’s Department of Athletics hired FieldTurf for the stadium’s renovation project, with a start date of May 1. Construction is expected to be completed by November.
The new field surface will feature alternating light and dark green in 5-yard stripes. The end zones will be navy blue. The east end zone will display “Thiel” in old gold. The west end zone will display “Tomcats” in old gold. The surface will have permanent lines for soccer and lacrosse with an outline of light blue. The turf system that will be installed at Stoeber Field is Classic HD.
Stoeber Field at Alumni Stadium opened in 2001. The college replaced the original surface in 2012 and added lighting, installed by Qualite Sports Lighting in 2013.
Stoeber Field is the home of Thiel’s football, men’s and women’s soccer and men’s and women’s lacrosse teams.
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- The NBA Cleveland Cavaliers plan to start work on a new downtown NBA practice facility before the end of this year, putting the project on track to open by late 2027. Last week, the team and its partners unveiled new images of the complex on the East Bank of the Cuyahoga River. The 210,000-square-foot building project — called the Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center — will blend elite training with sports medicine, nutrition and other wellness services.
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