Columbia Makes Sports Tourism Play with New Complex

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Columbia, Mo., is making a play to boost the local economy by converting the Boone County Fairgrounds into a sports and recreation complex that it hopes will spur a sports tourism industry in the area.

Boone County officials in early December announced their plans to transfer ownership of the fair grounds to the City of Columbia. In 2014, a consultant feasibility study recommended an aquatic center, an indoor field house, which opened last year, and a baseball/soccer facility.

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